PSY 1018 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13 (vocab): Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Bipolar Disorder

• School: St. John's University
• Department: PSY - PSYCHOLOGY
• Course: PSY 1018
• Professor: Farbman

Document Summary

Maladaptive behavior: a behavior that interferes with an individual"s function. Dsm-iv: abbreviation for the 4th edition of the american psychiatric association"s. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, which presents detailed descriptions of patterns of abnormal behavior. Schizophrenia: a devastating psychological disorder in which the victim loses touch with reality and has hallucinations, delusions and/or inappropriate emotion. Hallucinations: an imaginary sensation, such as seeing nonexistent things or feeling nonexistent objects under the skin. Delusion: a false belief such as the conviction that someone alive is dead. Mood disorders: a form of psychological disorders characterized by abnormalities of emotion, including severe depression and swings of mood from one extreme to another. Depression: a feeling of severe and prolonged sadness that occurs as a reaction to stress and chemical imbalances in the brain. Uni-polar disorder: a type of mood disorder that occurs without the swings in mood experienced in bipolar disorder.