1. medical model: Answer- proposes that it is useful to think of
abnormal behavior as a disease
2. diagnosis: Answer- distinguishing one illness from another
3. etiology: Answer- the apparent causation and developmental history
of an illness
4. eating disorders: Answer- severe disturbances in eating behavior
characterized by pre- occupation with weight concerns and unhealthy
efforts to control weight
5. anorexia nervosa: Answer- intense fear of gaining weight, disturbed
body image, refusal to maintain normal weight, and use of dangerous
measures to lose weight
6. bulimia nervosa: Answer- involves habitually engaging in out-of-
control overeating, fol- lowed by unhealthy compensatory efforts, such
as self-induced vomiting, fasting, abuse of laxatives and diacritics, and
excessive exercise
7. binge-eating disorder: Answer- distress-inducing eating binges that
are not accompa- nied by the purging, fasting, and excessive exercise
seen in bulimia
10.borderline personality disorder: instability in social relationships,
self-cen- tered image, and emotional functioning
11.narcissistic personality disorder: grandiose sense of self-
importance, a sense of entitlement, and an excessive need for
attention and admiration
12.insanity: legal status indicating that a person cannot be held
responsible for his or her actions because of mental illness
13.competency: defendant's capacity to stand trial
14.involuntary commitment: hospitalizing people in psychiatric facilities
against their will
15.schizophrenia: disorder of delusions, hallucinations, disorganized
thinking and speech, and deterioration of adaptive behavior
16.delusions: false beliefs maintained even when clearly out of touch
with reality
17.hallucinations: sensory perceptions occurring in absence of a real
external stimulus or gross distortions of perceptual input
18.expressed emotion: degree to which relative of schizophrenic
displays highly critical or emotionally over-involved attitude
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