Psychological Disorders

disturbance in emotion

·  Severe depression that comes on suddenly and seems to have no external cause

·  Lasts for at least two weeks

·  Must cause distress or impairment

·  Must not be attributable to substance abuse, bereavement or medical illness

Severe mood swings between major depressive episodes and manic episodes

Having the quality of excessive excitement, energy, and elation or irritability

A mood disorder caused by the body's reaction to low levels of sunlight in the winter months

All disorders in which the most dominate symptoms is excessive or unrealistic anxiety

Anxiety that seems to be unrelated any realistic, known factor

Disorder in which a person has feelings of dread and impending doom, along with physical symptoms of stress, which lasts 6 months or more

An irrational, persistent fear of an object, situation, or social activity

Fear of interacting with others or being in social situations that might lead to a negative evaluation

Fear of objects or specific situations or events

Disorder in which panic attacks occur frequently enough to cause the person difficulty in adjusting to daily life - often they begin to avoid certain things for fear they will trigger an attack

Sudden onset of intense panic in which multiple physical symptoms

Disorder in which intruding, recurring thoughts (obsessions) create anxiety that is temporarily relieved by performing a repetitive, ritualistic behavior (compulsion)

A disorder resulting from exposure to a major stressor

Symptoms: anxiety, dissociation, nightmares, poor sleep, reliving the event, and concentration problems

State that disordered behavior is learned through both + and - reinforcement

Point to repressed urges and desires that are trying to come into conscious, creating anxiety that is controlled by abnormal behavior

Illogical, irrational thought processes

Believe in evolutionary basis for anxiety; chemical imbalances in nervous system

Condition in which a person reduces eating to the point that a weight loss of 15 percent or more below the ideal body weight occurs

A condition in which a person develops a cycle of "binging," or overeating enormous amounts of food at one sitting, and then using unhealthy methods to avoid weight gain

Significant binge eating followed by remorse but do not purge or fast

Sever disorder in which the person suffers from disordered thinking, bizarre behavior, and hallucinations, and is unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality

Presence of inappropriate behavior; hallucinations, delusions, inappropriate thinking and behavior and disorganized speech

Absence of normal appropriate behavior; poor attention, flat affect

Behavior is bizarre and childish and thinking, speech, and motor actions are very disordered

EX.  Inappropriate emotions, socially impaired, silly & nonsensical speech; neglect hygiene and other needs

Periods of statue-like immobility mixed with occasional bursts of energetic, frantic movement and talking

Type of schizophrenia in which the person suffers from delusions of persecution, grandeur, and jealousy, together with hallucinations

Severely irrational thinking

· Reinforcement, observational

• · learning, and shaping affect the development
• of the behavioral symptoms of schizophrenia

A severe breakdown of the ego, overwhelmed by demands of id and results in childish, infantile behavior

On dopamine, structural defects in brain, inflammation, and genetic influences in schizophrenia

A biological sensitivity, or vulnerability, to a certain disorder that will develop under the right conditions of environmental or emotional stress

Loss of memory for personal information, either partial or complete

Traveling away from familiar surroundings with amnesia for the trip and possible amnesia for personal information

Sufferers feel detached and disconnected from themselves, their bodies, and their surroundings

Disorder occurring when a person seems to have 2 or more distinct personalities within one body

Kind of avoidance learning

Repression of memories, seeing dissociation as a defense mechanism against anxiety

Something wrong in part of brain that controls personality