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In ancient times holes were cut in an ill person;s head to let out evil spirits in a process called

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Trepanning

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Believed that mental illness came frim an imbalance in the body's four humors

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Hippocrates

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The study of abnormal behavior is called

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Psychopathology

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A pattern of behavior that causes people significant distress, causes them to harm others, or harms their ability to function in daily life is called a

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Psychoanalytical Disorder

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Anthing that does not allow a person to function within or adapt to the stresses and ecerday demands of life is called

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Maladaptive

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The ______ model explains behavior as caused by biological changes in the chemical, structural, or genetic system of the body

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Biological

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Assume that abnormal behavior stems form repressed conflicts and urges that are fighting to become conscious

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Psychoanalytical Theorists

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Abnormal behavior is seen as learned by the

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Behaviorists

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See abnormal behavior as coming from irrational beliefs and illogical patterns of thought

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Cognitive Theorists

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The need to consider the unique characteristics of the culture in which behavior takes place

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Cultural Relativity

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Disorders found only in particular cultures are known as

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Culture-Bound Syndromes

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A manual of psychological disorders and their symptoms is called

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

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One of the most common psychological disorders worldwide is

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Depression

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Disorders in which the main symptoms are excessive or unrealistic anxiety and fearfulness are called _______ disorders

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Anxiety

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This is an irrational, persistent fear of an object, situation, or social activity

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Phobia

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The fear of being in a place or situation form which escape is difficult or impossible is called

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Agoraphobia

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This disorder in which intruding, recurring thoughts or obsessions create anxiety that is relieved by performing a repetitive, ritualistic behavior (compulsion) is called

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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A person is said to have a __ ___ when panic attacks occur frequentlyh enough to cause the person difficulty in adjusting to daily life

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Panic Disorder

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Is a disorder in which a person has feelings of dread and impending doom along with physical symptoms of stress, which lasts six months or more

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Is a disorder that takes the form of bodily illnesses and symptoms but for which there are no real physical disorders

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Somatoform Disorder

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Is a disorder in which psychological stress causes a real physical disorder or illness

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Psychosomatic Disorder

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A somatoform disorder in which person is terrified of beign sick and worries constantly, going to doctors repeatedly, and becoming preoccupied with ecery sensation of the body

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Hypochorondriasis

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A somatoform disorder in which the person experiences a specific symptom in the somatic nervous systems functioning, such as paralysis, numbness, or blindness, for which there is no physical cause is called

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Conversion Disorder

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A loss of memory for personal information, wither partial or complete, is known as

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Dissociative Amnesia

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Is traveling away from familiar surroundings with amnesia for the trup and possible amnesia for person information

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Dissociative Fugue

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Is a disorder occuring when a person seems to have two or more sitinct personalities within one body

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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In Psychology, an emotional reaction is called the

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Affect

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A disorder that consists of mood swings from moderate depression to hypomania and lasts two years or more is called

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Cychothymia

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Is a Severe depression that comes on suddenly and seems to have no external cause

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Major Depression

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Is severe mood swings between major depressive episodes and manic episodes

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Bipolar Disorder

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When an individual has excessive excitement, energy, and elation or irritability, it is known as

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Mania

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A severe disorder in which the person suffers form disordered thinking, bizarre behavior, hallucinations, and is unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality is called

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Schizophrenia

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When someone does not have the ability to perceive what is real and whis fantasy, we say they are

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Psychotic

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The ___ ___ of schizophrenia are excesses of behavior or occur in addition to normal behavior, hallucinations, delusions, and disorted thinking

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Positive Symptoms

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Schizophernia are lacks of behaviors or less-than-normal behavior like poor speech or loss of affect

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Negative Symptoms

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False sensory perceptions, such as hearing voices that do not really exist, are called

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Hallucinations

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False beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness are called

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Delusions

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The type of schizophenia in which behavior is bizarre and childish and thinking, speech, and motor actions are very disordered is called _______ schizophrenia ...

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Disorganized

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The type of schizophrenia in which the person suffers from delusions of persecution, grandeur, and jealousy, together with hallucinations is called ____ schizophrenia

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Paranoid

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A disorder in which a person adopts a persistent, rigid, and maladaptive pattern of behavior that interferes with normal social interactions is called a

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Personality Disorder

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This is a disorder in which a person has no morals or conscience and often behaves in an impulsive manner withour regard for the consequences of that behavior...

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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Is a Maladaptive personality pattern in which ther person is moody, unstable, lacks a clear sense of identity, and often clings to others

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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Is a mood disorder caused by the body's reaction to low levels of sunlight in the winter months

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Seasonal Affective Disorder

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