PSY 110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
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What makes a behavior abnormal (& whether culture should be considered) own culture? person? . Culture is the behavior considered strange within the person"s. Amount of distress does the behavior cause distress to this. Describes the criteria used to classify and diagnose mental disorders. Lifetime chance of being diagnosed with a mental disorder for females & males. The five perspectives (especially biological & psychodynamic: biological heredity or physiology, biopsychosocial combination, psychodynamic unconscious conflict, learning symptoms learned, cognitive negative views. How a panic attack is defined an episode of overwhelming anxiety, fear, or terror. Compulsion a persistent, irresistible, and irrational urge to perform an act or ritual repeatedly. Obsessions a persistent, involuntary thought, image, or impulse that invades consciousness and causes great distress. Marked by feelings of great sadness, despair, and hopelessness as well as the loss of the ability to experience pleasure.
