PSYCH 7A Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Somatic Symptom Disorder, Schizophrenia, Palpitations

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 7A
• Professor: Christine Lofgren

Document Summary

Medical model conception of psychological disorders as biologically based sicknesses. Characterized by these traits dysfunctionality (ongoing patterns of behavior that interfere with normal day-to-day life),deviant (not the norm), and personally distressful. Today"s psychologists assume that disordered behavior is influenced by: Generalized anxiety disorder if a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic arousal. Panic disorder episodes of intense dread that last for several minutes and are accompanied by shortness of breath, trembling, dizziness, or heart palpitations. Phobias a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object or situation. I"m scared ; it"s i cannot and will not leave my house at all whatsoever because there are spiders outside. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) an anxiety disorder that is characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and actions. Somatoform disorder you have an ailment, but medical exams indicate that there is no apparent physical cause for these symptoms. Dissociative disorder disruptions in conscious awareness and sense of identity.