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Tutoring Notes: - Lecture notes 14
Course: Psychology (PSYC 101)
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Psychological disorders- Mental and Emotional
Hallucinations- A perception that something is there but usually not
there
Ideas of Percecution- Where one is being victimise
Anxiety Disorders: Inability to relax (All the time)
Specific Phobias- A constant fear over a type of situation
Claustrophobia- Fear of tight small places.
Acrophobia- a fear of high places
Agoraphobia- fear of open crowded places
Social Anxiety Disorder: (Introverted person) Fear of society.
Panic Disorder- extreame anxiety (Physical experiencing sweating,
physical pumping of the heart)
Generalized anxiety disorder- cannot be attributed to a situation or an
object. Feeling of dread for 6 month time period.
OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)- When things have to fallow a
sequence of events or a pattern. Things have to be done 1 way if not they
will start to act crazy.
Post Tramatic Stress disorder (6 months after)- follows a stressed moment
for example when someone dies it would be with them for the rest of their
life.
Acute stress disorder (1 month after)- follows a stressed moment for
example when someone dies They blame it on themselves.
Disociative Disorders- Temporary coinsidence in-self.
Disociative Identity Disorder- More than one disorder is happening at one
time
{
1. So he would be fine after drinking orange juice
2. He Drinks orange juice and now some symptoms occur such as
hives.
}
Amnesia- A loss of memory
Depersonal-Derealization Disorder- feeling detached from themselves (A
dream)
Somatoform Disorders- People who complain of physical problems When you
think you have a medical issue however you really dont.
I'llness Anxiety disorder- thinking that one is ill despite the medical
findings.