Matching: Concept Check

Activity 12.13

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Match the terms with their corresponding definitions:

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Anxiety
Assessment Interviews
Conversion Disorder
Disruptive Behaviors
Mental Disorders
Mood Disorder
Paraphilias
Personality Disorders
Schizophrenia
Substance-Related Disorders
a.   Disturbances of an individual's behavioral or psychological functioning that are not culturally expected and that lead to psychological distress, behavioral disability, or impaired overall functioning.
b.   Interviews conducted by psychologists in which they seek information about individuals’ past and present behaviors, current problems, interpersonal relations, and personality.
c.   A somatoform disorder in which individuals experience actual physical impairment such as blindness, deafness, or paralysis for which there is no underlying medical cause.
d.   Disorders involving extreme and inflexible personality traits that are distressing to the persons who have them or cause them problems in school, work, or interpersonal relations.
e.   Increased arousal accompanied by generalized feelings of fear or apprehension.
f.   A complex disorder characterized by hallucinations (e.g., hearing voices), delusions (beliefs with no basis in reality), disturbances in speech, and several other symptoms.
g.   Childhood mental disorders involving poor control of impulses, conflict with other children and adults, and, in some cases, more serious forms of antisocial behavior.
h.   Disorders related to the use of psychoactive substances.
i.   Psychological disorders in which individuals experience swings in their emotional states that are much more extreme and prolonged than is true of most people.
j.   Disorders in which sexual arousal cannot occur without the presence of unusual imagery or acts.

   

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