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| A pattern of change in arousal, feelings, cognitive processes, experession, and behavior in response ro a situation. |
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| What is the 3 Theories of Emotion? |
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1. Theory of body Reacation (James/large)
Stimulus ---> Body Response ---> Emotion
2. Theory of Cental Neural Processes (Cannon/Band)
Stimulus: Emotions and Body Response
3. Theory of cognitive Apprasial (Schachter/Lazarus)
Stimulus + Body Response --> Interpretation --> Emotion |
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| What is the 7 Facial expression of emotion? |
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- Fear
- Disgust
- Happiness
- Surprise
- Contempt
- Anger
- Sadness
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| What is Psychological Disorders? |
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| Disruptions emotinoal, behavioral or thought processes that lead to distress, or an inability to achieve goals. |
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| What are the 7 Criteria of Assessment? |
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- Distress: behavior upsets the individual
- Dysfunction (Maladaptive): behavior is impedes own or socity's goal
- Irrationality: behavior is incomprehensibe
- Unpredictability: behavior is unforessable
- Unusualness: behavior is rare and undesirable
- Violation of Standards: behavior breaks societal norms
- Observer Discomfort: behavior upsets other people
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| What are the 6 causes of Abnormality? |
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- Stone-Age: Supernatuarl Cause
- Ancient Greece: Humor Imbalance
- 1-14 Century: Demonic Possession
- 15th-19th Century: Sickness of the mind (Wager) and Asylum Reform (Pinel)
- 19th Century: Physical causes (Kraepelin) and Psychological causes (Mesuier)
- Today: Somatic and Psychogenic
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| What is Anxiety Disorders? |
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| A stress response that becomes maladaptive |
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Persistent and irrational fear of an object, activity, or situations
Ex: Animals, Situations or Nature |
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| What is Generalized Anxiety? |
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- Free-floating anxiety and worry
- No specific threat
- Symptions--> impaired perforance
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- Unexpected, severe panic attacks
- Physical and psychological element
- Sometimes leads to Agoraphobia
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| What is Obessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)? |
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| A diagnosed when obsessions and compulsions become excessive and maladaptive |
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| Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: the persistent re-experience of traumatic events. (Stress reaction after the event) |
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| intense feelings of dispair/ worthlessness over an extended period |
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- Alternating periods of depression and mania (inappropriate rise in mood)
- Moodswing
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| What is Disociative Amnesia? |
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| An inability to recall important personal events and information |
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| What is Dissociative Fugue? |
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| Sudden unexpected travel away from home with inability to recall one's past |
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| What is Identitly Disorder? |
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| Development of 2 or more distinct personalities each with distinct memories, thoughts and emotions |
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| What types and causes of Schizophrenia? |
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| Genetics, brain-function, Environmental stressors |
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| What is the Attribution Theory? |
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Heider (1958)
People are continually trying to make inferences about the causes of behaviors or events.
Kelly (1967)
Trying to fit in with the crowd. |
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| What are the Four types of Attribution Biases? |
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- Self-Serving Biases: Making internal attributions for success but external attributions for failure.
- Funomental Attribution Error: Tendency to overstimate influence of dispositional factors and inderstandimate influence of situational factors
- Actor Observer Effect: The tendency for people performing actions to make situational attributions for the same behavior
- Ultimate Attribution Error: The Tendency to make in group favoring/ oyt-group derogating (prejudiced) attributions
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| Tendency for people to adapt the behavior, attitudes and values displayed by the oter group members |
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| What is Normative Influence? |
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| following the expectations of others to gain social approval/ avoid dissapproval |
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| According that the behavior of others constitutes evidence about reality |
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| Acting in accordance with a direct order or commard |
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| Deliberate to change someone's attitude via the transmission of a message. |
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| Elaboration- Likehood Model: Attending to persuaive messages takes effort |
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| Heuristic-Systematic Model: People need to be confident in their attitude when exposed to peruasion |
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| What is Cognitive Dissonance? |
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| People need to be consistent in their thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors |
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| Delierate effort to change someone's behavior in response to a request |
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| What are 4 Compliance Techniques? |
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- Foot-in-the-face: Small request--> Big request
- Door-in-the-face: Big request --> Small request
- Low-Ball: Changing the ideal after agreement
- Scarcity: Limiting supply
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| A learn attitude towards a target object, person, or idea which suggests that the target is of inferior status. |
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| What are the 4 causes of Prejudice? |
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- Stereotyping: Beliefs about people that put them in a category of a group
- Realistic Group Conflict: Competition for limited resources
- Social Learning: Imitating models
- Social Identity Theory: Enhancing self-esteem by perceiving one's own group as superior
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| What is Pro-social Behavior? |
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| Voluntory behavior that is carried out to benefit another person |
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| What are the Bystander Intervention Model? |
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- Do you notice? (Stimulus Overload)
- Is help needed? (Plurditic Imporance)
- Is it your reponsibility? ( Deffusion of Responsbility)
- Can you help? (skill level)
- Will you help? ( Cost verus Benefit)
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