Final Psychological Disorders Exam
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Anorexia Nervosa *Ans*An eating disorder in which a person ( usually an adolescent female)
maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly (15% or more) underweight.
Antisocial Personality Disorder *Ans*A personality disorder in wh...
Final Psychological Disorders Exam
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Anorexia Nervosa *Ans*✨An eating disorder in which a person ( usually an adolescent female)
maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly (15% or more) underweight.
Antisocial Personality Disorder *Ans*✨A personality disorder in which a person (usually a man)
exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be
aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist.
Anxiety Disorders *Ans*✨Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or
maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) *Ans*✨A psychological disorder marked by the
appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and
impulsivity.
Axis I-V *Ans*✨Axis I: Clinical Syndrome present?
Axis II: Personality Disorder or Mental Retardation present?
Axis III: General Medical Condition, such as diabetes, also present?
Axis IV: Psychosocial/Environmental Problems?
Axis V: Global Assessment of person's functioning
Binge-Eating Disorder *Ans*✨Significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt,
but without the compensatory purging or fasting, that marks bulimia nervosa.
Biological Perspective on Anxiety *Ans*✨Natural Selection: We are biologically prepared to fear
threats.
Genes: Fearfulness and anxiety runs in families.
The Brain: When the disordered brain detects that something is amiss, it seems to generate a mental
hiccup of anxiety.
, Biological Perspective on Mood Disorders *Ans*✨Genetics: They run in families.
Depressed Brain: Diminished brain activity during depression and increased activity during mania.
Bipolar Disorder *Ans*✨A mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and
lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania. (Formerly called manic depressive disorder).
Brain Abnormalities in Schizophrenia *Ans*✨Dopamine overactivity, abnormal brain activity and
anatomy, and maternal virus during midpregnancy.
Bulimia Nervosa *Ans*✨An eating disorder in which a person alternates binge eating (usually of high-
calorie foods) with purging (by vomiting or laxative use), or fasting.
Delusions *Ans*✨False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic
disorders.
Dissociate Disorders *Ans*✨Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated)
from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) *Ans*✨A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two
or more distinct and alternating personalities. Formerly called multiple personality disorder.
DSM-IV-TR *Ans*✨The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders, Fourth Edition, with an updated "text revision"; a widely used system for classifying
psychological disorders.
Generalized Anxiety Disorders *Ans*✨An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense,
apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal.
Genetic Factors of Schizophrenia *Ans*✨Schizophrenia can be inherited.
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