Psyc. Ch 14

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A fear of going out to public places.

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Agoraphobia

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Eating disorder characterized by intense fear of gaining weight, disturbed body image, refusal to maintain normal weight, and dangerous measures to lose weight.

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Anorexia Nervosa

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A type of personality disorder marked by impulsive, callous, manipulative, aggressive, and irresponsible behavior that reflects a failure to accept social norms.

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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A class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety.

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Anxiety Disorders

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Basing the estimated probability of an event on the ease with which relevant instances come to mind.

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Availability Heuristic

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Mood disorder marked by the experience of both depressed and manic periods.

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Bipolar Disorder(Formerly Known as Manic-Depressive Disorder)

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Eating disorder characterized by habitually engaging in out-of-control overeating followed by unhealthy compensatory efforts, such as self-induced vomiting, fasting, abuse of laxatives and diuretics, and excessive exercise.

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Bulimia Nervosa

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A type of schizophrenia marked by striking motor disturbances, ranging from muscular rigidity to random motor activity.

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Catatonic Schizophrenia

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The percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives that exhibit the same disorder.

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Concordance Rate

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The coexistence of two or more disorders.

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Comorbidity

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An error that occurs when people estimate that the odds of two uncertain events happening together are greater than the odds of either event happening alone.

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Conjunction Fallacy

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A somatoform disorder characterized by a significant loss of physical function (with no apparent organic basis), usually in a single organ system.

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Conversion Disorder

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Abnormal syndromes found only in a few cultural groups.

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Culture-Bound Disorders

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Exhibiting chronic but relatively mild symptoms of bipolar disturbance.

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Cyclothymic Disorder

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False beliefs that are maintained even though they are clearly out of touch with reality.

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Delusions

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Distinguishing one illness from another.

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Diagnosis

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A type of schizophrenia in which particularly severe deterioration of adaptive behavior is seen.

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Disorganized schizophrenia

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A sudden loss of memory for important personal information that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting.

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Dissociative amnesia

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A class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity.

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Dissociative disorders

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A disorder in which people lose their memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity.

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Dissociative fugue

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A type of dissociative disorder characterized by the coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete, and usually very different, personalities. Also called multiple-personality disorder.

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Dissociative identity disorder (DID)

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A chronic depression that is insufficient in severity to merit diagnosis of a major depressive episode.

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Dysthymic disorder

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Severe disturbances in eating behavior characterized by preoccupation with weight concerns and unhealthy efforts to control weight.

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Eating disorders

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The study of the distribution of mental or physical disorders in a population.

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Epidemiology

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The apparent causation and developmental history of an illness.

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Etiology

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Sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of a real, external stimulus, or gross distortions of perceptual input.

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Hallucinations

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A somatoform disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation with health concerns and incessant worry about developing physical illnesses.

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Hypochondriasis

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A legal status indicating that a person cannot be held responsible for his or her actions because of mental illness.

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Insanity

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A civil proceeding in which people are hospitalized in psychiatric facilities against their will.

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Involuntary commitment

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Mood disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure.

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Major depressive disorder

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A psychological disorder marked by a chronic, high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat.

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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See Bipolar disorder.

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Manic-depressive disorder

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The view that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease.

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Medical model

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A class of disorders marked by emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical, perceptual, social, and thought processes.

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Mood disorders

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See Dissociative identity disorder.

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Multiple-personality disorder

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A distribution in which most scores pile up at the high end of the scale.

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Negatively skewed distribution

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A type of anxiety disorder marked by persistent, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and urges to engage in senseless rituals (compulsions).

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

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A type of anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly.

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Panic disorder

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A type of schizophrenia that is dominated by delusions of persecution along with delusions of grandeur.

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Paranoid schizophrenia

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A class of psychological disorders marked by extreme, inflexible personality traits that cause subjective distress or impaired social and occupational functioning.

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Personality disorders

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A type of anxiety disorder marked by a persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger.

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Phobic disorder

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Schizophrenic symptoms that involve behavioral excesses or peculiarities, such as hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, and wild flights of ideas.

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Positive symptoms

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Disturbed behavior that is attributed to a major stressful event but that emerges after the stress is over.

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Post traumatic stress disorder

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The percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder during a specified time period.

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Prevalence

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A forecast about the probable course of an illness.

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Prognosis

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Basing the estimated probability of an event on how similar it is to the typical prototype of that event.

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Representativeness heuristic

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A class of psychological disorders marked by disturbances in thought that spill over to affect perceptual, social, and emotional processes.

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Schizophrenic disorders

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A type of somatoform disorder marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psychological in origin.

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Somatization disorder

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A class of psychological disorders involving physical ailments with no authentic organic basis that are due to psychological factors.

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Somatoform disorders

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A type of schizophrenia marked by idiosyncratic mixtures of schizophrenic symptoms.

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Undifferentiated schizophrenia