PSYCH 1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Long-Term Memory, Mania, Paranoid Personality Disorder
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Dms-5 definition: it is a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental process underlying mental functioning. Anxiety disorders- in which fear or anxiety is prominent symptom. Generalized anxiety disorders- not focused on on just one threat, but multiple real or imagined. Must occur on more days than not for at least 6 months. Phobias- intense, irrational fear that is very clearly related to a particular category of object or event. Panic disorder and agoraphobia- feeling of helpless terror. comes at unpredictable times, unprovoked. Panic attacks last several minutes and accompanied by high psychological arousal. Trauma-and stressor related disorders- associated with exposure to a traumatic or stressful event. Posttraumatic stress disorder- characterized by three major symptoms- uncontrollable re-experiencing, heightened arousal, and avoidance of trauma-related stimuli.
