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Abnormal Psychology Final Exam With

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1. Abnormal behavior - ANS -Patterns of thought, emotion, and

actions that are deviant, unexpected, or "away from the

standard" based on statistical, social-cultural, and/or functional

standards.




2. Abnormal psychology - ANS -The scientific study of abnormal

behavior in order to describe, predict, explain, and ultimately

change abnormal patterns of functioning.




3. Acute stress disorder - ANS -An anxiety disorder in which fear and

related symptoms are experienced soon after a traumatic event,

often including amnesia about the event, emotional numbing, and

, derealization, and lasting less than a month. Many victims later

develop posttraumatic stress disorder.




4. Addiction - ANS -Physical dependence on a substance marked by

tolerance, withdrawal symptoms during abstinence, or both.




5. Affect - ANS -A subjective feeling of emotion or mood often

accompanied by bodily expressions noticeable to others.




6. Age of onset - ANS -Person's age when he or she develops or

exhibits symptoms of a disorder.




7. Agnosia - ANS -Inability to recognize and name objects; may be a

symptom of dementia or other brain disorders.

,8. Agoraphobia - ANS -Anxiety about being in places or situations

from which escape might be difficult (or embarrassing) or help

unavailable if panic symptoms were to occur.




9. Alogia - ANS -Deficiency in the amount or content of speech, a

disturbance often seen in people with schizophrenia. Also known

as poverty of speech.




10. Alternate personalities / alters - ANS -In dissociative

identity disorder, the additional identities along with the host

identity. Also known as subpersonalities.




11. American Law Institute (ALI) test (1955) - ANS -A legal test

for insanity that holds a person to be insane at the time of

committing a crime, if during criminal conduct, the individual

, could not judge right from wrong or control his or her behavior as

required by law. Compare M'Naghten Rule and irresistible

impulse.




12. Amnestic disorders - ANS -Organic disorders in which the

primary symptom is memory loss.




13. Anhedonia - ANS -Inability to experience pleasure,

associated with some mood and schizophrenic disorders.




14. Anorexia nervosa - ANS -Eating disorder characterized by

continual food refusal and the pursuit of extreme thinness,

leading to dangerously low body weight.

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