Vocabulary for Test 2
Psychology 330 with Mahadevan at University of Tennessee - Knoxville
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Essentials of Abnormal Psychology (with CD-ROM)
Created: 2009-02-19
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Group of disorders involving severe and enduring disturbances in emotionality ranging from elation to severe depression...
Mood disorders
Most common and most severe experience of depression, including feelings of worthlessness, disturbances in bodily activities such as sleep, loss of interest, and inability to experience pleasure, persisting at least 2 weeks...
Major depressive episode
Period of abnormally excessive elation or euphoria, associated with some mood disorders...
Mania
Less severe and less disruptive version of a manic episode that is one of the criteria for several mood disorders...
Hypomaniac episode
Condition in which the individual experiences both elation and depression or anxiety at the same time...
Mixed manic episode (Dysphoric manic episode)
The inability to experience pleasure or have any "fun"...
Anhedonia
Disorder when their mood remains at one "pole" of the usual depression-mania continuum...
Unipolar mood disorder
Disorder when you travel from one "pole" of the depression-elation continuum to the other and back again...
Bipolar mood disorder
Mood disorder involving one (single episode) or more (separated by at least two months without depression-recurrent) major depressive episodes...
Major depressive disorder, single or recurrent episode
Mood disorder involving persistently depressed mood, with low self-esteem, withdrawal, pessimism or despair, and present for at least 2 years with no absence of symptoms for more than 2 months...
Dysthymic disorder
Severe mood disorder typified by major depressive episodes superimposed over a background of dysthymic disorder...
Double depression
Extreme reaction to the death of a loved one that involves psychotic features, suicidal ideation, or severe loss of weight or energy, or that persists more than two months...
Pathological or impacted grief reaction
The alternation of major depressive episodes with hypomanic (not full manic) episodes...
Bipolar II disorder
The alternation of major depressive episodes with full manic episodes...
Bipolar I disorder
Chronic (at least 2 years) mood disorder characterized by alternating mood elevation and depression levels that are not as severe as manic or major depressive episodes...
Cyclothymic disorder
Mood disorder involving cycling of episodes corresponding to the seasons of the year, typically with depression occurring during the winter...
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
Seligman's theory that people become anxious and depressed when they make an attribution that they have no control over the stress in their lives (whether in reality they do or not)...
Learned hopelessness theory of depression
Thinking errors in depressed people negatively focused in three areas: themselves, their immediate world, and their future...
Depressive cognitive triad
This is evident when a depressed individual emphasizes the negative rather than the positive aspects of a situation...
Arbitrary inference
Efforts made to kill oneself...
Suicidal attempts
Serious thoughts about committing suicide...
Suicidal ideation
Postmortem psychological profile of a suicide victim constructed from interviews with people who knew the person before death...
Psychological autopsy
The result of marked disruptions, such as the sudden loss of a high-prestige job; feeling lost and confused...
Anomic suicides
The result of a loss of control over one's destiny...
Fatalistic suicides
A negative mood state; single largest mental health problem in the US...
Anxiety
Component of anxiety that consists of tension, apprehension, and expectations of inability to cope...
Subjective reports
Component of anxiety that consists of avoidance, impaired speech, motor functioning, and performance on cognitive tasts...
Behavioral responses
Component of anxiety that consists of muscle tension, increased heart rate and blood pressure, rapid breathing, dry mouth, nausea, diarrhea, and dizziness...
Physiological responses
An immediate alarm reaction to anxiety; protects us by activating a massive response from the autonomic nervous system...
Fear
A future-oriented mood state, characterized by feelings of uncontrollability and predictability...
Anxiety
An abrupt experience of intense fear or acute discomfort, accompanied by physical symptoms that usually include heart palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath, and possibly dizziness...
Panic attack
This has allowed investigators to identify relevant areas on a number of chromosomes in animals...
Quantitative trait loci
First person to give evidence that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other health related problems...
Sir Richard Doll
Places or situations where an initial panic attack occurred...
External cues
Increases in the heart rate or respiration...
Internal cues
The tendency may be uptight or high-strung may be inherited...
Biological Vulnerability
A technique in which a hierarchy of anxiety-producing situations are drawn up, and each stage in the hierarchy is dealt with, when the person is in a state of relaxation...
Systematic desensitization
The world may seem unreal...
Derealization
They may seem unreal to themselves...
Depersonalization
"Out of the blue" (as it pertains to a panic attack)...
Uncued
In relation to a situational trigger (the person can specify what brought on the panic attack)...
Cued
People with panic disorder cannot go anywhere without fearing that they may have an attack in front of everyone and with help nowhere in sight; this complication of panic disorder is called...
Panic disorder with agoraphobia (PAD)
Hype-arousal of the Central Nervous System (insomnia, muscle tension, restlessness, inability to concentrate)...
Generalized anxiety disorder
Hyper-arousal of the Autonomic Nervous System (pounding heart, rapid breathing, dizziness, nausea)...
Panic Disorder
About this deck
By: Audra Lawson
Textbook: Essentials of Abnormal Psychology (with CD-ROM)
Created: 2009-02-19
Size: 44 flashcards
Views: 31
Textbook:
Essentials of Abnormal Psychology (with CD-ROM)Created: 2009-02-19
Size: 44 flashcards
Views: 31
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