FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER

14 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: disorganized schizophrenia

Answer:

A type of schizophrenia in which an individual has delusions and hallucinations that have little or no recognizable meaning.

Question 2: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

Answer:

Psychological disorder in which the individual shows one or more of the following characteristics over a

period of time: inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.

Question 3: Delusions

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False, sometimes even preposterous, beliefs that are not part of the person's culture.

Question 4: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

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An anxiety disorder that develops through exposure to a traumatic event, severely oppressive situations, severe abuse, and natural and unnatural disasters.

Question 5: major depressive disorder (MDD)

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A mood disorder indicated by a major depressive episode and depressed characteristics, such as lethargy and hopelessness, lasting at least 2 weeks.

Question 6: DSM-IV

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Abbreviation for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition; the current version of the APA's major classification of psychological disorders.

Question 7: abnormal behavior

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Behavior that is deviant, maladaptive, or personally distressful over a long period of time.

Question 8: Agoraphobia

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A cluster of fears centered on public places and on an inability to escape or to find help should one become incapacitated.

Question 9: personality disorders

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Chronic, maladaptive cognitive-behavioral patterns that are thoroughly integrated into the individual's personality.

Question 10: bipolar disorder

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A mood disorder characterized by extreme mood swings that include one or more episodes of mania (an overexcited, unrealistically optimistic state).

Question 11: referential thinking

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Ascribing personal meaning to completely random events.

Question 12: flat affect

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A negative symptom in which the person shows little or no emotion, speaks without emotional inflection, and maintains an immobile facial expression.

Question 13: anxiety disorders

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Psychological disorders that feature motor tension, hyperactivity, and apprehensive expectations and thoughts.

Question 14: Catatonia

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A state of immobility and unresponsiveness.

Question 15: depressive disorders

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Mood disorders in which the individual suffers from depression (an unrelenting lack of pleasure in life).

Question 16: dissociative disorders

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Psychological disorders that involve a sudden loss of memory or change in identity.

Question 17: catatonic schizophrenia

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A type of schizophrenia characterized by bizarre motor behavior that sometimes takes the form of a completely immobile stupor.

Question 18: mood disorders

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Psychological disorders in which there is a primary disturbance in mood (prolonged emotion that colors the individual's entire emotional state). Two main types are the depressive disorders and bipolar disorder.

Question 19: paranoid schizophrenia

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A type of schizophrenia that is characterized by delusions of reference, grandeur, and persecution.

Question 20: obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

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An anxiety disorder in which the individual has anxiety-provoking thoughts that will not go away (obsession) and/or urges to perform repetitive, ritualistic behaviors to prevent or produce some future situation (compulsion).

Question 21: Schizophrenia

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A severe psychological disorder that is characterized by highly disordered thought processes.

Question 22: generalized anxiety disorder

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An anxiety disorder that consists of persistent anxiety for at least 6 months; the individual with this disorder cannot specify the reasons for the anxiety.

Question 23: Hallucinations

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Sensory experiences in the absence of real stimuli

Question 24: diathesis-stress model

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A model of schizophrenia that proposes a combination of biogenetic disposition and stress as the cause of the disorder.

Question 25: dissociative identity disorder (DID)

Answer:

Formerly called multiple personality disorder, this is the most dramatic but least common dissociative disorder; individuals suffering from this disorder have two or more distinct personalities or selves.