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Psychological Disorder correct answers A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in a person's thoughts, feelings, or behaviors Culture and time correct answers Diagnosis of specific disorders has varied from culture to culture and over time in the same culture Pinel correct a...

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PSYC 2301: Chapter 13-14 || with 100% Errorless Solutions.
Psychological Disorder correct answers A syndrome marked by a clinically significant
disturbance in a person's thoughts, feelings, or behaviors

Culture and time correct answers Diagnosis of specific disorders has varied from culture to
culture and over time in the same culture

Pinel correct answers This person opposed brutal treatment and proposed moral treatment;
viewed madness as a sickness of mind caused by severe stress and inhumane treatment

Mental illness correct answers This is diagnosed on the basis of symptoms and cured through
therapy, including treatment

1800s correct answers People began searching for physical causes of mental disorders and for
curative treatments

Biopsychosocial approach correct answers General approach positioning that biological,
psychological, and social-cultural factors, all play a significant role in human functioning in the
context disease or illness

DSM-5 correct answers American Psychiatric Association's 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders; basically a dictionary that has all mental disorders and its
symptoms and treatments in it

Generalized anxiety disorder correct answers A person is constantly tense and uneasy for no
apparent reason; symptoms include continual worrying, often jittery, sleep deprived,
concentration difficulties, often experienced with depression

Panic disorder correct answers A person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread and often
lives in fear of when the next attack might strike; symptoms include irregular heartbeat, chest
pains, shortness of breath, choking, dizziness, trembling

Phobia correct answers A person feels irrationally and intensely afraid of a specific object or
situation

Obsessive-compulsive disorder correct answers A person is troubled by repetitive thoughts or
actions; characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions; occurs when obsessive
thoughts and compulsive behaviors interfere with everyday life and causes distress

Post traumatic stress disorder correct answers A person has lingering memories, nightmares, and
other symptoms for weeks after a severely threatening, uncontrollable event; a disorder
characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawn, jumpy anxiety, numbness of
feeling, and/or insomnia lingering for 4+ week after a traumatic experience; often involves
battle-scarred veterans, survivors of accidents, disasters, and violent/sexual assaults

, 2/3 correct answers ______ of women experience general anxiety disorder

Smoking correct answers This increases the risk for panic attacks

Women correct answers _____________ are at higher risk for PTSD

Classical conditioning correct answers _________________ __________________ research
helps explain how panic-prone people associated anxiety with certain cues

Stimulus generalization correct answers _____________ ___________________ research
demonstrates how a fearful event can later become a fear of similar events

Reinforcement correct answers _______________ (operant conditioning) can help maintain a
developed and generalized phobia

Genes correct answers Genetic predisposition to anxiety, OCD, and PTSD

The brain correct answers Trauma is linked to new fear pathways, hyperactive danger detection,
impulse control, and habitual behavior areas of ____ _______

Natural selection correct answers Biological preparedness to fear threats; easily conditioned and
difficult to extinguish

Stigma correct answers An attempt to label a particular group as less worthy of respected that
others; a mark of shame, disgrace, or disapproval that results in discrimination; not just a matter
of using the wrong word or action; it is about disrespect

Major depressive disorder correct answers A persistent state of hopeless depression; occurs when
signs of depression last two or more weeks and are not caused by drugs or a medical condition

Bipolar disorder correct answers An alternation between depression and overexcited
hyperactivity; less common; may include seasonal patterns; involves a surge in diagnosis

Women's correct answers _____________ risk of major depression is nearly double than that of
their opposites

Suicide correct answers One of the leading causes of death; higher risk with diagnosis of
depression but may occur with rebound; more likely to occur when people feel disconnect from
or a burden to others

Nonsuicidal self-injury correct answers Includes cutting, burning, and hitting oneself, pulling out
hair, inserting objects under the nails or skin, and self-administered tattooing

The depressed brain correct answers Brain activity slows during depression; left frontal lobe is
less active; scarcity of norepinephrine and serotonin

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