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Anxiety - Answer Apprehension about a future threat List of Anxiety Disorders - Answer Specific and social phobias, Panic disorder and agoraphobia, Generalized anxiety disorder, Obsessive compulsive disorder, Posttraumatic stress disorder Phobia - Answer Disruptive fear of a particular object or situation. Fear out of proportion to actual threat. Awareness that fear is excessive. Must be severe enough to cause distress or interfere with job or social life Specific Phobia - Answer ...

psychological disorder - Answer Psychological dysfunction associated with distress or impairment in functioning that is not a typical or culturally expected response. phobia - Answer Psychological disorder characterized by marked and persistent fear of an object or situation. abnormal behavior - Answer Actions that are unexpected and often evaluated negatively because they differ from typical or usual behavior. psychopathology - Answer Scientific study of psychological disorders...

abnormal psychology - Answer the scientific study of abnormal behavior norms - Answer a society's stated and unstated rules for proper conduct culture - Answer a people's common history, values, institutions, habits, skills, technology, and arts The 4 "D's" - Answer deviance, distress, dysfunction, danger deviance - Answer behavior contrary to norms distress - Answer uneasiness associated with issue dysfunction - Answer behavior interferes with daily living ...

Models - Answer perspective used to explain events spells out basic assumptions, sets guideline for investigation, not exclusive, no single model can explain all aspects of abnormality Model - Answer set of shared assumption and concepts that help researches explain and interpret observations, help clinicians decide on treatment, also called paradigm or framework. What are the models of Abnormality - Answer Biological model Psychodynamic model Behavioral model Cognitive model Hu...

What are the 4 KEY characteristics of determining whether a thought/behaviour is abnormal? And why is it used? - Answer Statistically infrequent, violate social norms, cause distress, cause impairment are four ways to determine as there is NO UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED definition of what is 'abnormal'. T/F: There are limitations in the four characteristics of abnormal behaviour/thought determination - Answer True. T/F: Any deviation from the norm is abnormal but not all statistically infre...

Acute/Reactive Schizophrenia - Answer typically develops in response to environmental stressors rather than genetic causes; rapidly develops and recovery is better; more likely to display positive symptoms Agoraphobia - Answer fear of being in a place or situation from which escape is difficult or embarrassing, or in which help is unavailable in the event of a panic attack Antisocial Personality Disorder - Answer A personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregar...

Which of the following is NOT one of the considerations we use in trying to judge the abnormality of some behavior? (A) Deviance (B) Distress (C) Disruptiveness (D) Disability - Answer (D) Disability When we use a specific name for a mental disorder, we run the risk that... (A) we will think we have explained something (B) the name will become stigmatizing (C) Neither; there is not risk (D) Both A and B are risks - Answer (D) Both A and B are risks Which of the following w...

Hindbrain - Answer Includes medulla, pons, and cerebellum Cerebellum - Answer Part of the brain that controls movement Pons - Answer Part of the brain that controls sleep and arousal Midbrain - Answer Fibers that ascend/descend connecting higher and lower regions of the brain Forebrain - Answer Includes cerebrum, thalamus, hypothalamus, and cortex Corpus Callosum - Answer Divides hemispheres Thalamus - Answer Part of the brain that controls the relay between the s...

Supernaturalistic - Answer -reason person exhibits odd behavior is because they are possessed by the devil, being possed is what is causing them to act this way Naturalistic - Answer -person is showing abnormal behavior because of some physical problem: problem in body or brain Psychoneurotic (psychogenic) - Answer -There is some kind of significance inner or psychological turmoil that a person is experiencing because of trauma Demonology - Answer -abnormal behavior was the resu...

(1) Is anxiety considered continuous or discontinuous? - Answer continuous (2) According to Freud, what is the origin of anxiety? - Answer Psychogenic Unconscious conflict/ drive/motivation (3) Why don't we use the term neurosis anymore? - Answer The DSM-5 is descriptively based, the term neurosis is too closely tied to freuds theory (4) What type of onset do we see in depression and anxiety? - Answer Anxiety has a more sudden onset then depression (5) What is anhedonia? - ...