Abnormal Psychology Final Exam With Correct Answers 2024
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Abnormal Psychology
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Abnormal Psychology
Abnormal Psychology Final Exam With Correct Answers 2024Abnormal Psychology Final Exam With Correct Answers 2024Abnormal Psychology Final Exam With Correct Answers 2024Abnormal Psychology Final Exam With Correct Answers 2024Abnormal Psychology Final Exam With Correct Answers 2024Abnormal Psychology...
1. Abnormal behavior - ANS -Patterns of thought, emotion, and
actions that are deviant, unexpected, or "away from the
standard" based on statistical, social-cultural, and/or functional
standards.
2. Abnormal psychology - ANS -The scientific study of abnormal
behavior in order to describe, predict, explain, and ultimately
change abnormal patterns of functioning.
3. Acute stress disorder - ANS -An anxiety disorder in which fear and
related symptoms are experienced soon after a traumatic event,
often including amnesia about the event, emotional numbing, and
, derealization, and lasting less than a month. Many victims later
develop posttraumatic stress disorder.
4. Addiction - ANS -Physical dependence on a substance marked by
tolerance, withdrawal symptoms during abstinence, or both.
5. Affect - ANS -A subjective feeling of emotion or mood often
accompanied by bodily expressions noticeable to others.
6. Age of onset - ANS -Person's age when he or she develops or
exhibits symptoms of a disorder.
7. Agnosia - ANS -Inability to recognize and name objects; may be a
symptom of dementia or other brain disorders.
,8. Agoraphobia - ANS -Anxiety about being in places or situations
from which escape might be difficult (or embarrassing) or help
unavailable if panic symptoms were to occur.
9. Alogia - ANS -Deficiency in the amount or content of speech, a
disturbance often seen in people with schizophrenia. Also known
as poverty of speech.
10. Alternate personalities / alters - ANS -In dissociative
identity disorder, the additional identities along with the host
identity. Also known as subpersonalities.
11. American Law Institute (ALI) test (1955) - ANS -A legal test
for insanity that holds a person to be insane at the time of
committing a crime, if during criminal conduct, the individual
, could not judge right from wrong or control his or her behavior as
required by law. Compare M'Naghten Rule and irresistible
impulse.
12. Amnestic disorders - ANS -Organic disorders in which the
primary symptom is memory loss.
13. Anhedonia - ANS -Inability to experience pleasure,
associated with some mood and schizophrenic disorders.
14. Anorexia nervosa - ANS -Eating disorder characterized by
continual food refusal and the pursuit of extreme thinness,
leading to dangerously low body weight.
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