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long history of dramatic complaints about faked medical conditions
fake symptoms by trying to get sick or hurting self. Create own symptoms in head to appear sick |
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Complain of multiple symptoms for which there are no medical diagnosis.
Symptoms are not intentionally feigned or produced. |
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-one or more symptoms affecting voluntary motor/sensory function
-sudden blindness, sudden inability to walk, seizure, etc.
-Usually occurs after traumatic event. |
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-Preoccupation with an imagined defect in appearance
-"imagined ugliness" |
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| Adjustment Disorder: Define |
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| develops within 3 months of a life stress, and which is stronger or greater than what would be expected for the type of event that occurred |
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| Adjustment Disorder: Most common cause for adults |
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| marital or financial problems |
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| exposure and response prevention |
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-behavior therapy technique
-Common treatment for anxiety disorders, particularly OCD
-face fears without engaging in safety behaviors |
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| systematic desensitization |
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-behavioral therapy
-progressive exposure to stimulus. overcoming a hierarchy of fear + learning anxiety coping mechanisms |
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challenges thoughts + helps to form positive and rational ones
-typically used for depression |
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-psychoanalysis
objects = images of ones father or mother
experiences with parents as an infant affect how you formulate your schema and draw upon that from your unconscious during adult life |
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inability to detect individual differences in faces
-problem with the Fusiform Gyrus |
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| What happens when cocaine blocks the reuptake of norepinephrine and dopamine? |
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| Prolongation of the effects of norepinephrine and dopamine at the synapse |
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| How does cocaine achieve its psychological effects? |
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| -Passes though the blood-brain barrier + blocks reuptake of dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine |
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delivery of a reinforcer or punisher occurs close together in time (temporal contiguity) with an independent behavior. Therefore, the behavior is accidentally reinforced or punished, increasing the likelihood of that behavior occurring again.
ex: fall under a ladder. conclude that walking under ladders = bad luck |
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| Disadvantage of cross-sectional studies |
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| Cohort differences:Experiential differences between groups of people born at different periods in time; these differences can be confounded with age changes. |
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| Research indicates that the words that young people use are most likely to be.... |
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| nouns referencing things found in their environment |
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| Research indicates that the words that young people use are most likely to be.... |
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| nouns referencing things found in their environment |
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| What are the characteristics of autism? |
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| intolerance of change, communication problems, ritualistic repetitive behavior, weak attachment to others |
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| Empathy-altruism hypothesis |
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| if you feel empathy towards another person you will help them, regardless of what you can gain from it |
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| In the Milgram studies, what factor tended to elicit a relatively low level of obedience? |
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| An authority figure (experimenter) in another room gave instructions to the "teacher" (participant) |
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| To ask for humbly or earnestly, as by praying. |
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| The auditory and vestibular systems are alike in that both... |
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| depend on hair cells to transduce the proximal stimulus into neural activity |
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| Which part of the eye allows for you to see in poorly lit environments? |
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| systematically reject null hypothesis |
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