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.

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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

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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

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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

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Anxiety Disorders

Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.

app: generalized anxiety disorders

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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

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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

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Phobia

An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation.

app: irrational fear

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions).

app: Hower Mendel

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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

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Post-Traumatic Growth

refers to the positive psychological change experienced as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances

app: gym transformation

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Dissociative Disorders

disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings

app: DID

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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

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Mood disorders

Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes

app: depression

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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

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Mania

A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state

app: “crazy”

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Bipolar disorder

A mood disorder in which a person fluctuates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the hyperactivity of mania

app: dad??

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Schizophrenia

A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized or delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions

app: paranoia

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Delusions

False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders

app: delulu is the solulu

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Personality disorders

Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

app: antisocial personality disorder

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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

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social anxiety disorder

intense fear of social situations, leading to avoidance of such.

app: Formerly called social phobia

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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

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rumination

overthinking about our problems and their causes.

app: compulsive fretting

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psychosis

a psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions

app: psychotic

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hallucinations

false sensory experience, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus.

app: seeing things

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somatic system disorder

a psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic form without apparent physical cause.

app: those girls from that highschool

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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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