AP Psychology Unit 12 Vocab
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Psychological Disorder
Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.
app: ADHD, ADD, psychosis, OCD, etc.
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
A psychological disorder marked by the appearance by afe 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
app: squirrel
Medical Model
The concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital.
app: abnormal blood levels, damaged cells, and abnormal gene expression
DSM-5
the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.
app: blue book
Anxiety Disorders
Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.
app: generalized anxiety disorders
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal.
app: standard anxiety
Panic Disorder
An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episode of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations.
app: has panic attacks
Phobia
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation.
app: irrational fear
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions).
app: Hower Mendel
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
psychological stress disorder charcterized by episodes of anxiety, sleeplessness, and nightmares resulting from some disturbing event in the past
app: owen from greys
Post-Traumatic Growth
refers to the positive psychological change experienced as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances
app: gym transformation
Dissociative Disorders
disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings
app: DID
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities
app: that lady with the 2yo personality
Mood disorders
Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes
app: depression
Major depressive disorder
A mood disorder where a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities
app: hard to fairly diagnose because of requirements
Mania
A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state
app: “crazy”
Bipolar disorder
A mood disorder in which a person fluctuates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the hyperactivity of mania
app: dad??
Schizophrenia
A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized or delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions
app: paranoia
Delusions
False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders
app: delulu is the solulu
Personality disorders
Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning
app: antisocial personality disorder
Antisocial personality disorder
A personality disorder in which a person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even towards friends and family. Such a person could be aggressive and ruthless or a con artist
app: low eq, apathetic
social anxiety disorder
intense fear of social situations, leading to avoidance of such.
app: Formerly called social phobia
agoraphobia
fear or avoidance ofsituations, such as crowds or wideopen places, where one has felt loss of control and panic.
app: fear of no control
rumination
overthinking about our problems and their causes.
app: compulsive fretting
psychosis
a psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions
app: psychotic
hallucinations
false sensory experience, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus.
app: seeing things
somatic system disorder
a psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic form without apparent physical cause.
app: those girls from that highschool
conversion disorder
a disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found.
app: functional neurological symptom disorder
illness anxiety disorder
a disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease.
app: must be sick (literally sneezed once)
anorexia nervosa
an eating disorder in which a person (usually an adolescent female) maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly (15 percent or more) underweight.
app: middle school
bulimia nervosa
an eating disorder in which a person alternates binge eating (usually of high-calorie foods) with purging (by vomiting or laxative use), excessive exercise, or fasting.
app: also kinda middle school
binge-eating disorder
significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging or fasting that marks bulimia nervosa.
app: first half of bulimia
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