________ may increase the odds that a child will develop schizophrenia.
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Physicians
________ and mental health workers use the detailed "diagnostic criteria and codes "in the DSM- 5 to guide medical diagnoses and treatment.
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Psychopathology
________ needs to be diagnosed on the basis of its symptoms.
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Genetic influences
________, often in combination with negative environmental factors such as childhood abuse, family instability, or poverty, help wire the brain.
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anxiety disorders
People with ________ tend to be hypervigilant.
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phobias focus
Our ________ on dangers faced by our ancestors, our compulsive acts typically exaggerate behaviors that contributed to our species survival.
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Compulsive behaviors
________ are responses to those thoughts.
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Alcohol
________ use disorder, obsessive- compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia symptoms appear at a median age near 20.
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Reinforcement
________ helps maintain learned fears and anxieties.
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Selective attention
________ is a cause of disorganized thinking.
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Medical Model
________:** the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital.
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poor judgment
Mania**: a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in which dangerously ________ is common.
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Depression
________ can cause the brains reward centers to become less active.
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gender stress difference
The ________ explains why beginning in their early teens, women have been nearly twice as vulnerable to depression.
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generalization
Stimulus ________ occurs when a person experiences a fearful event and later develops a fear of similar events.
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Relentless
________ and self- focused rumination can distract us, increase negative emotion, and disrupt daily activity.
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Schizophrenia
________ involves not one isolated brain abnormality but problems with several brain regions and their interconnections.
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Natural selection
________ shaped our behaviors, when taken to an extreme, these behaviors can interfere with daily life.
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Lack of conscience becomes
________ plain before age 15, as they begin to lie, steal, fight, or display unrestrained sexual behavior.
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Molecular geneticists
________ have identified some specific genes that are more common in those with antisocial personality disorder.
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social functioning
Personality Disorders:** inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair ________.
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Phobia
________:** an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation.
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Neuroscientists
________ have also discovered altered brain structures in people with bipolar disorder.
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DSM
The ________ has broadened the diagnostic criteria for attention- deficit /hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
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telltale sign of childhood
Eating disorders are not a(n) ________ sexual abuse.
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Delusion
________:** a false belief, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders.
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genetic predispositions
Disorders reflect ________ and physiological states, inner psychological dynamics, and social and cultural circumstances.
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gender components
Eating disorders also have cultural and ________.
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potential threats
They are often jittery, agitated, sleep- deprived, and become fixated on ________.
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Antisocial personality disorder
________ is woven of both biological and psychological strands.
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classical conditioning
Through ________, our fear responses can become linked with formerly neutral objects and events.
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Bulimia nervosa
________,** unlike anorexia, is marked by weight fluctuations within or above normal ranges, making the condition easy to hide.
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irrational fear
People with phobias are consumed by a persistent, ________ and avoidance of some object, activity, or situation.
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dissociative detachment
When we face trauma, ________ may protect us from being overwhelmed by emotion.
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Obsessive thoughts
________ are unwanted and so repetitive it may seem they will never go away.
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Bulimia
________ may also be triggered by a weight- loss diet, broken by gorging on forbidden foods.
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false perceptions
Hallucinations are ________.
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Anorexia nervosa
________:** an eating disorder in which a person (usually an adolescent female) maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight; sometimes accompanied by excessive exercise.
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Psychological Disorder
________**: a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individuals cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior.
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Dissociative identity disorder
________ (DID- formerly called multiple personality disorder) is when two or more distinct identities- each with its own voice and mannerisms- seem to control a persons behavior at different times.
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Traumatic fear learning experiences
________ can leave tracks in the brain, creating fear circuits.
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Panic attack
________ is described as repeated panic attacks, with symptoms such as irregular heartbeat, shortness of breath, and dizziness.
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Bipolar disorder
________ is much less common the major depressive disorder but it is often more dysfunctional.
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Depression
________ is both a cause and an effect of stressful experiences.
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Schizophrenia
________ is the chief example of a psychotic disorder.
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DSM
The ________- 5 is very close to the WHOs ICD (International Classification of Disease)
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Anxiety Disorder
Generalized ________:** an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal.
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Bulimia nervosa
________:** an eating disorder in which a persons binge eating (usually of high- calorie foods) is followed by inappropriate weight- loss promoting behavior, such as vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise.
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
________:** 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.
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
________ (DID):** a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.