Details of Pyschology Flashcards

A disorder principally occurring in men in Southeastern Asian and Pacific Island cultures as well as in traditional Puerto Rican and Navajo cultures. It describes a type of dissociate episode in which an otherwise normal person suddenly goes berserk and strikes out at others. The person may have a sense of acting automatically or robotically. A return to the person's usual state of functioning follows the episode.

A way of describing states of emotional distress among Latin American and Latin Mediterranean groups, it most commonly involves features such as shouting uncontrollably, fits of crying, trembling, feelings of warmth or heat rising from the chest or head, and aggressive verbal of physical behavior. - usually precipitated by a stressful event affecting the family. Afterwards, they return to normal functioning.

A disorder affecting males found principally in India that involves intense fear or anxiety over the loss of semen through nocturnal emissions, ejaculations, or excretion with urine.

Occurring principally among southern US and Caribbean groups the disorder involves an episode of sudden collapsing or fainting.

A disorder occurring among American Indian groups, it involves a preoccupation with death and with the 'spirits' of the deceased. Symptoms include bad dreams, feelings of weakness, loss of appetite, dear, anxiety, and a sense of foreboding. Hallucinations, loss of consciousness, and states of confusion may also be present.

Found primarily in China and other South and East Asian countries, the syndrome refers to an episode of acute anxiety involving the feat that one's genitals are shrinking and retracting into the body and that death may result.

Possession by spirits in North Africa and Middle Eastern countries. Possession is often used to explain dissociative episodes that may be characterized by periods of shouting, banging of the head against the wall, laughing, singing, or crying. May seem apathetic or withdrawn or refuse to heat or carry out other responsibilities.

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Can be interpreted

Include unstructured interview, semistructured interview, and structured intervie

Interview in which the clinician adopts his or her own style of questoning rather than following any standard format.

Interview in which the clinician follows a general outline of questions designed to gather essential information but is free to ask them in any order and to branch off in other directions.

Interview that follows a preset series of questions in a particular order.

A structured method of assessment used to evaluate reasonable stable traits such as intelligence and personality.

Wechsler's scales are the most widely used intelligence tests. They include both verbal and performance subtests.