Test Your Knowledge of Psychological Disorders

Overview of Psychological Disorders

• Psychological disorders are marked by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior.
• Biopsychosocial approach to psychological disorders includes psychological, biological, and social-cultural influences.
• ADHD diagnosis is given to 11% of American 4- to 17-year-olds, and debate continues over whether normal high energy is too often diagnosed as a psychiatric disorder.
• Psychological disorder rates vary, and poverty is a risk factor for their development.
• Anxiety disorders are marked by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by persistent and repetitive thoughts (obsessions), actions (compulsions), or both.
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia lingering for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience.
• Depressive disorders include major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder includes mania-impulsive behavior.
• Depression is widespread, and women have a higher risk of major depression than men.
• Brain activity slows during depression, and there is a scarcity of norepinephrine and serotonin.
• Negative beliefs and self-defeating thoughts contribute to the cycle of depression, and suicide is more likely to occur when people feel disconnected from or burdensome to others.
• Personality disorder is disruptive, inflexible, and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning, and it forms three clusters characterized by anxiety, eccentric or odd behaviors, and dramatic or impulsive behaviors.

Overview of Psychological Disorders

• Psychological disorders are marked by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior.
• Biopsychosocial approach to psychological disorders includes psychological, biological, and social-cultural influences.
• ADHD diagnosis is given to 11% of American 4- to 17-year-olds, and debate continues over whether normal high energy is too often diagnosed as a psychiatric disorder.
• Psychological disorder rates vary, and poverty is a risk factor for their development.
• Anxiety disorders are marked by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by persistent and repetitive thoughts (obsessions), actions (compulsions), or both.
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia lingering for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience.
• Depressive disorders include major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder includes mania-impulsive behavior.
• Depression is widespread, and women have a higher risk of major depression than men.
• Brain activity slows during depression, and there is a scarcity of norepinephrine and serotonin.
• Negative beliefs and self-defeating thoughts contribute to the cycle of depression, and suicide is more likely to occur when people feel disconnected from or burdensome to others.
• Personality disorder is disruptive, inflexible, and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning, and it forms three clusters characterized by anxiety, eccentric or odd behaviors, and dramatic or impulsive behaviors.

Overview of Psychological Disorders

• Psychological disorders are marked by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior.
• Biopsychosocial approach to psychological disorders includes psychological, biological, and social-cultural influences.
• ADHD diagnosis is given to 11% of American 4- to 17-year-olds, and debate continues over whether normal high energy is too often diagnosed as a psychiatric disorder.
• Psychological disorder rates vary, and poverty is a risk factor for their development.
• Anxiety disorders are marked by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by persistent and repetitive thoughts (obsessions), actions (compulsions), or both.
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia lingering for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience.
• Depressive disorders include major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder includes mania-impulsive behavior.
• Depression is widespread, and women have a higher risk of major depression than men.
• Brain activity slows during depression, and there is a scarcity of norepinephrine and serotonin.
• Negative beliefs and self-defeating thoughts contribute to the cycle of depression, and suicide is more likely to occur when people feel disconnected from or burdensome to others.
• Personality disorder is disruptive, inflexible, and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning, and it forms three clusters characterized by anxiety, eccentric or odd behaviors, and dramatic or impulsive behaviors.