AP Psychology Chapter 14 Psychological Disorders

Amnesia - loss of memory Antisocial Personality - A person who lacks a conscience, is emotionally shallow, impulsive, and selfish, and tends to manipulate others Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - A psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 or one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. avoidant personality disorder - A personality disorder characterized by consistent discomfort and restraint in social situations, overwhelming feelings of inadequacy, and extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation. Bipolar Disorder - a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania borderline personality disorder - condition marked by extreme instability in mood, identity, and impulse control Conversion Disorders - Somatoform disorders in which individuals experience serious somatomic symptoms such as fuctional blindness, deafness, and paralysis Dependent Peronality Disorder - characterized by someone who frequently depends on others Dissociative Identity Disorder - a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities Fugue - condition of having amnesia for your current life and starting a new life somewhere else Generalized Anxiety Disorder - an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal histrionic disorder - attention-seeking behavior that includes sexual seductiveness and emotions inappropriate in typical society Hypochondriasis - a condition characterized by misinterpretation of physical symptoms and fearing that one has a serious illness despite appropriate medical evaluation and reassuranc