unit 12

2. characterized by emotional extremes. Major depressive disorder: person experiences two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, diminished interest in activities.
3. person experiences genuine physical symptoms for which no psychological base is found.
5. characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning.
7. disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy, and/or insomnia that lingers for four or more weeks after traumatic experience.
13. patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors that are deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional.
18. persistent irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation.
19. a person exhibits two or more distinct alternating personalities.
20. unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain or other frightening sensations.
21. the concept that psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and sometimes cured.

1. a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
4. characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions.
6. a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.
8. marked by hyperactive, widely optimistic state.
9. characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions.
10. disorder person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the over-excited state of mania
11. person exhibits lack of conscience for wrongdoing.
12. person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease
14. false beliefs that may accompany psychotic disorders.
15. symptoms take a somatic form without apparent physical cause.
16. conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.
17. characterize by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety