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Chapter 10
Abnormal Psychology
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/12/2010

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anxiety disorders
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disorders in which excessive anxiety leads to personal distress and atypical, maladaptive, and irrational behavior
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specific phobia
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an anxiety disorder indicated by a marked and persistent fear of specific objects or situations that is excessive and unreasonable
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social phobia
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an anxiety disorder indicated by a marked and persistent fear of one or more social performance situations in which there is exposure to unfamiliar people or scrutiny by others
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agoraphobia
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an anxiety disorder indicated by a marked and persistent fear of being in places or situations from which escape may be difficult or embarrassing
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obsessive-compulsive disorder
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an anxiety disorder in which the person experiences recurrent obsessions or compulsions that are perceived by the person as excessive or unreasonable, but cause significant distress and disruption in the person's daily life
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obsession
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a persistent intrusive though, idea, impulse, or image that causes anxiety
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compulsion
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a repetitive and rigid behavior that a person feels compelled to perform in order to reduce anxiety
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hallucination
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a false sensory perception
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delusion
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a false belief
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vulnerability-stress model
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a bio-psycho-sexual exaplanation of schizophrenia which proposes that genetic, prenatal, and postnatal biological factors render a person vulnerable to schizophrenia, but environmental stress determines whether it develops or not
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biomedical therapy
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the use of drugs to treat mental disorders
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lithium
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a naturally occurring element that is used to treat bipolar disorder
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tardive dyskinesia
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a side effect of long-term use of traditional anti psychotic drugs causing the person to have uncontrollable facial tics, grimaces, and other involuntary movements of the lips, jaw and tongue
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lobotomy
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a type of psycho surgery in which the neuronal connections of the frontal lobes to lower brain areas are severed
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free association
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a person spontaneously describes, without editing, all thoughts, feelings, or images that come to mind
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manifest content
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Freud's term for the literal surface meaning of a dream
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latent content
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Freud's term for the underlying true meaning of a dream
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client-centered therapy
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Carl Rogers
unconditional positive regard is used
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flooding
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a counter conditioning exposure therapy in which the patient is immediately exposed to a feared object or situation
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systematic desensitization
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a counter conditioning exposure therapy in which a fear response to an object or situation is replaced with a relaxation response in a series of progressively increasing fear-arousing steps
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virtual reality therapy
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a counter conditioning exposure therapy in which the patient is exposed in graduated steps to computer simulations of a feared object of situation
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rational-emotive therapy
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a type of cognitive therapy developed by Albert Ellis in which the therapist directly confronts and challenges the person's unrealistic thoughts and beliefs to show that they are irrational
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spontaneous remission
Definition
getting better wit the passage of time without receiving any thearpy
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