Psychological Disorders and Phobias: Anxiety, Mood, and Personality Disturbances

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Psychology - Abnormal Psychology

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What is the term for the fear of heights?
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What disorder results from exposure to a major stressor, with symptoms like anxiety and nightmares for up to 1 month?
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In psychology, what term indicates 'emotion' or 'mood'?
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What is the fear of being in a place or situation from which escape is difficult or impossible?
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What is the tendency to believe that one's performance must be perfect or the result will be a total failure?
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What disorder involves using others without regard for their rights or feelings, often behaving impulsively?
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What is the anticipation of a future threat, often associated with worry and muscle tension?
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What class of disorders is characterized by excessive or unrealistic anxiety?
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What condition involves reducing eating to the point of significantly low body weight, often with a BMI less than 18.5?
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What condition involves overeating enormous amounts of food at one sitting without purging?
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What model explains behavior as caused by biological changes in the body's systems?
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Which perspective sees abnormal behavior as the result of biological, psychological, social, and cultural influences?
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What disorder involves periods of mood ranging from normal to manic, with or without episodes of depression?
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What personality disorder is characterized by moodiness, instability, and a lack of clear identity?
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What condition involves a cycle of binging and using unhealthy methods to avoid weight gain?
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What term describes disturbed behavior ranging from statue-like immobility to frantic movement?
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What is the fear of being in a small, enclosed space?
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Who are psychologists that study the way people think, remember, and mentally organize information?
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What is the need to consider the unique characteristics of the culture in which behavior takes place?
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What are sets of particular symptoms of distress found in particular cultures?
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What are false beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness?
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What personality disorder involves being clingy, submissive, and fearful of separation?
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What disorders involve a break in conscious awareness, memory, or identity?
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What disorder occurs when a person seems to have two or more distinct personalities?
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What term describes a lack of emotional responsiveness?
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What is anxiety that is unrelated to any specific and known cause?
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What disorder involves feelings of dread and physical symptoms of stress lasting 6 months or more?
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What are false sensory perceptions such as hearing voices that do not exist?
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What is the tendency to interpret situations as more dangerous or important than they are?
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What is severe depression that comes on suddenly and seems to have no external cause?
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What term describes anything that does not allow a person to function or adapt to life's demands?
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What term describes excessive excitement, energy, and elation or irritability?
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What is the tendency to give little or no importance to one's successes or positive events?
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What disorders involve severely disturbed mood?
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What are symptoms of schizophrenia that are less than normal behavior or an absence of normal behavior?
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What disorder involves recurring thoughts or obsessions that create anxiety relieved by compulsions?
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What is the distortion of thinking where one draws sweeping conclusions from a single event?
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What is the sudden onset of intense panic with multiple physical symptoms of stress?
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What disorder involves repeated panic attacks and persistent worry or behavior changes?
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What personality disorder involves pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others?
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What disorders involve a persistent, rigid, and maladaptive pattern of behavior?
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What is an irrational, persistent fear of an object, situation, or social activity?
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What are symptoms of schizophrenia that are excesses of behavior or occur in addition to normal behavior?
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What disorder results from exposure to a major stressor, with symptoms lasting more than 1 month?
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What is any pattern of behavior that causes significant distress or harms daily functioning?
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What is the study of abnormal behavior and psychological dysfunction?
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What term refers to an individual's inability to separate what is real and what is fantasy?
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What severe disorder involves disordered thinking, bizarre behavior, and hallucinations?
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What is a problem in sexual functioning?
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What is the social or environmental setting of a person's behavior?
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What is the fear of interacting with others or being in social situations that might lead to a negative evaluation?
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What perspective focuses on the relationship between social behavior and culture?
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What is the fear of objects or specific situations or events?
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What model explains disorder development as a result of biological vulnerability and environmental stress?
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What term describes emotional distress or emotional pain?
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