Abnormal Psych Test 2.txt

The physiologic effects (increase in blood pressure, cardiac output, blood flow to skeletal muscles, rate of glycolysis, and blood glucose concentration; decrease in blood flow to viscera) mediated by sympathetic nervous system discharge and release of adrenal medullary hormones in response to stress, fright, or rage

The portion of the nervous system concerned with regulation of activity of cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and glands, usually restricted to the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems

Mood state characterized by marked negative affect and bodily symptoms of tension in which a person apprehensively anticipates future danger of misfortune. May involve feelings, behaviors and physiological responses

Abrupt experience of intense fear or discomfort accompanied by a number of physical symptoms such as dizziness or heart palpitations. Type 1: Situationally bound (cued); Type 2: Unexpected (uncued); Type 3: Situationally predisposed

A group of brain structures (including the hippocampus, gyrus fornicatus, and amygdala) common to all mammals; it is associated with olfaction, autonomic functions, and certain aspects of emotion and behavior

Brain circuit in animals that when stimulated causes an immediate alarm and escap response resembling human panic

Anxiety disorder characterized by intense, uncontrollable, unfocused, chronic, and continuous worry that is distressing and unproductive accompanied by physical symptoms of tenseness, irritability and restlessness

Fear and avoidance of situations the person believes might induce a dreaded panic attack

Panic attacks experienced without development of agoraphobia

Unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation that markedly interferes with daily life functioning

Cued panic attacks

Extreme, enduring, irrational fear and avoidance of social or performance situations

Enduring, distressing emotional disorder that follows exposure to a severe helplessness-or fear- inducing threat. The victim reexperiences the trauma, avoids stimuli associated with it, and develops a numbing of responsiveness and an increased vigilance and arousal.

Anxiety disorder involving unwanted, persistent, intrusive thoughts and impulses as well as repetitive actions intended to suppress them

Recurrent intrusive thoughts or impulses the client seeks to suppress or neutralize while recognizing they are not imposed by outside forces

Repetitive, ritualistic, time-consuming behaviors or mental acts a person feels driven to perform

A Neurotransmitter involved in information processing, coordination of movement, inhibition and restraint; it also assists in the regulation of eating, sexual, and agressive behaviors, all of which may be involved in different psychological disorders. Its interaction with dopamine is implicated in schizophrenia

Pathological concerns of individuals with the appearance or functioning of their bodies, usually in the absence of any identifiable medical condition

Disorders in which the individuals feel detached from themselves or their surroundings and reality, experience, and identity may disintegrate

Somatoform disorder involving severe anxiety over the believe that one has a disease process without any evident physical cause

Somatoform disorder involving extreme and long-lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident

Physical malfunctioning, such as blindness or paralysis, suggesting neurological impairment but with no organic pathology to account for it

Deliberate faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by gain

Somatoform disorder featuring true pain but for which psychological factors play an important role in onset, severity, or maintenance

Somatoform disorder featuring a disruptive preoccupation of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, affects, and control over impulses

A moment where your perception alters so that you temporarily lose the sense of your own reality

The sense of reality of the external world is lost

Dissociative disorder in which feelings of depersonalization are so severe they dominate the clients life and prevent normal functioning

Disorders in which individuals feel detatched from themselves or their surrounding, and reality, experience, and identity may disintegrate

Condition in which the person loses memory of all personal information including his or her own identity

Memory loss limited to specific times and events, particularly traumatic events.

Dissociative disorder featuring sudden, unexpected travel from home along with an inability to recall one's past, sometimes with asusmption of a new identity

Formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, a disorder in which as many as 100 personalities or fragments of personalities coexist within one body and mind

Shorthand term for alter egos, the different personalities or identities in dissociative identity disorder

Group of disorders invilving severe and enduring disturbances in emotionality ranging from elation to severe depression

Most common and severe experience of depression, including feelings of worthlessness, disturbances in bodily activities such as sleep, loss of interest, and the inability to experience pleasure, persisting at least two weeks

Period of abnormally excessive elation or euphoria, associated with some mood disorder

Lasts about one week and sometimes the patient is hospitalized if severe enough.

Less severe and less disruptive version of a manic episode that is one of the criteria for several mood disorders

Mood disorder invilving one (single episode) or more (separatd by at least two months without depression-recurrent) major depressive apisodes

Mood Disorder involving persistently depressed mood, with lo self-esteem, withdrawl, pesimism, or despair, and present for at least 2 yearswith no absence of symptoms for more than 2 months

Severe mood disorder typified by major depressive episodes superimposed overa backgroud of dysthymic disorder

Extreme reaction to the death of a loved one that involves psychotic features, suicidal ideation or severe loss of weight or energy or that persists more than 2 months

The alternation of major depressive episodes with hypomanic (not full manic) episodes

The Alternation of major depressive episodes with full manic episodes

Chronic (at least 2 years) mood disorder characterized by alternating mood elevation and depression levels that arenot as severe as manic or major depressive episodes

Mood disorder involving a cycling of episodes corresponding to the seasons of the year, typically with depression occuring during the winter

Inability to experience pleasure, associated with some mood and schizophrenic disorders

Treatment approach that involves identifying and alternating negative thinking styles related to psychological disorder ssuch as depression and anxiety and replacing them with more positive believes and attitudes and ultimately more adaptive behavior and coping styles

Efforts made to kill oneself

Serioius thoughts about commiting suicide

Cluster B (dramatic, emotional or erratic) personality disorder involving a pervasive patter of inability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, affects and control over impluses

Seligman's theory that people become anxious and depressed when they make an attribution that they have no control over the stress in their lives (whether in reality they do or not)

An SSRI that is a reuptake inhibitor and specifically block the reuptake for serotonin

Tranqualizers thatare benzodiazepines.

Medically used herbs

Tranqualizer

A Common salt; primary drug of choice for bipolar disorder

Alcohol use & abuse leads to suicide