Antisocial personality disorder a personality disorder characterized by persistent disregard of the rights of other people failure to comply with laws and social customs and irresponsible and reckless behavior Asch s research on conformity people were willing to ignore reality and give an incorrect answer in order to conform to the rest of the group Bipolar disorder a mental condition marked by alternating periods of elation and depression Catatonic schizophrenia rare severe mental disorder characterized by striking motor behavior typically involving either significant reductions in voluntary movement or hyperactivity and agitation Cognitive dissonance the state of having inconsistent thoughts beliefs or attitudes especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change Compliance strategies like minded Conformity the act of matching attitudes beliefs and behaviors to group norms politics or being Defining abnormality relating to any deviation from what is considered typical usual or healthy particularly if the deviation is considered harmful or maladaptive Dispositional and situational causes of behavior Situationism is the view that our behavior and actions are determined by our immediate environment and surroundings In contrast dispositionism holds that our behavior is determined by internal factors and denial Freudian defense mechanisms Reaction formation projection displacement undoing isolation sublimation Freudian personality theory The mind is divided into three components id ego and superego and that the interactions and conflicts among the components create personality Fundamental attribution error the tendency people have to overemphasize personal characteristics and ignore situational factors in judging others behavior Generalized anxiety disorder persistent and excessive worry that interferes with daily activities Glove anesthesia a mental disorder involving loss of sensitivity in the hand and wrist Groupthink a phenomenon that occurs when a group of individuals reaches a consensus without critical reasoning or evaluation of the consequences or alternatives Histrionic personality disorder a psychiatric disorder distinguished by a pattern of exaggerated emotionality and attention seeking behavior Id Ego and Superego ID Pleasure Principle EGO Reality Principle SUPEREGO Concise Ego Ideal Jung s collective unconscious made up of a collection of knowledge and imagery that every person is born with and is shared by all human beings due to ancestral experience Major depression depression results from maladaptive faulty or irrational cognitions taking the form of distorted thoughts core beliefs and judgments Major perspectives on abnormal behavior biological psychological socio cultural and biopsychosocial Mania causes a person to experience unreasonable euphoria very intense moods hyperactivity and delusions Milgram s obedience study exploring the willingness of individuals to follow the orders of authorities when those orders conflict with the individual s own moral judgment Panic disorder unexpected and repeated episodes of intense fear accompanied by physical symptoms that may include chest pain heart palpitations shortness of breath dizziness or abdominal distress Post traumatic stress disorder a mental health condition that s triggered by a terrifying event either experiencing it or witnessing it Psychoanalysis a set of theories and therapeutic techniques that deal in part with the unconscious mind and which together form a method of treatment for mental disorders Psychotic symptoms a collection of symptoms that affect the mind where there has been some loss of contact Schizophrenia a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally SSRIs Widely used antidepressants The Big Five personality factors Extraversion Agreeableness Conscientiousness Neuroticism and Openness with reality to Experience The bystander effect and diffusion of responsibility When someone is less likely to help another if other Trait theory of personality rests on the idea that people differ from one another based on the strength and potential helpers are present intensity of basic trait dimensions Types of delusions persecutory erotomanic grandiose jealous somatic and mixed unspecific
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