Psychology 14.2 Vocabulary - Sophomore Year

Delusional Disorder

A psychosis marked by severe delusions of grandeur, jealousy, persecution, or similar preoccupations.

Paranoid Psychosis

A delusional disorder centered especially on delusions of persecution.

Schizophrenia

A psychosis characterized by delusions, hallucinations, apathy, and a “split” between thought and emotion.

Disorganized Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia marked by incoherence, grossly disorganized behavior, bizarre thinking, and flat or grossly inappropriate emotions.

Catatonic Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia marked by stupor, rigidity, unresponsiveness, posturing, mutism, and sometimes, agitated, purposeless behavior.

Paranoid Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia marked by a preoccupation with delusions or by frequent auditory hallucinations related to a single theme, especially grandeur or persecution.

Undifferentiated Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia lacking the specific features of catatonic, disorganized, or paranoid types.

Psychological trauma

A psychological injury or shock, such as that caused by violence, abuse, neglect, separation, and so forth.

Stress-Vulnerability Model

Attributes mental illness to a combination of environmental stress and inherited susceptibility

Mood Disorder

Major disturbances in mood or emotion, such as depression or mania.

Depressive Disorders

Emotional disorders primarily involving sadness, despondency, and depression.

Bipolar Disorders

Emotional disorders involving both depression and mania or hypomania.

Dysthymic Disorder (Chronic depressive disorder)

Moderate depression that persists for 2 years or more.

Cyclothymic Disorder

Moderate manic and depressive behavior that persists for 2 years or more.

Major Mood Disorders

Disorders marked by lasting extremes of mood or emotion and sometimes accompanied by psychotic symptoms.

Major Depressive Disorder

A mood disorder in which the person has suffered one or more intense episodes of depression.

Bipolar 1 Disorder

A mood disorder in which a person has episodes of mania (excited, hyperactive, energetic, grandiose behavior) and also periods of deep depression.

Bipolar 2 Disorder

A mood disorder in which a person is mostly depressed (sad, despondent, guilt ridden) but also has had one or more episodes of mild mania (hypomania).

Endogenous Depression

Depression that appears to be produced from within (perhaps by chemical imbalances in the brain), rather than as a reaction to life events.

Postpartum Depression

A mild to moderately severe depression that begins within 3 months following childbirth.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

Depression that occurs only during fall and winter; presumably related to decreased exposure to sunlight.

Phototherapy

A treatment for seasonal affective disorder that involves exposure to bright, full-spectrum light.

Adjustment Disorder

An emotional disturbance caused by ongoing stressors within the range of common experience.