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| behavior or emotional state that causes a person great suffering |
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| used to infer a persons motives conflicts and dynamics |
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| projective personality test, interpret symbols |
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| standard objective questionaire requiring written responses |
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| Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory |
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| a widely used objective personality test |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| continuous state of anxiety marked by feelings of worry and dread |
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| short intense feelings of anxiety |
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| excessive irrational fears |
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| obsessive compulsive disorder |
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| repeated thoughts and rituals are used to ward off anxiety |
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| an anxiety disorder in which person experiences recurring panic attacks |
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| basic fear of being away from a safe place or person |
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| anxiety in the presence of other people |
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| recurrent persistent thoughts and actions and supersitious rituals |
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| a mood disorder involving disturbances in emotion, behavior, and cognition |
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| mood disorder, fluxuation between depression and mania |
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| vulnerability stress models |
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| approaches that emphasize vulnerabilites interact with external stresses or circumstances to produce mental disorders |
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| rigid personality patterns that cause personal distress |
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| paranoid personality disorder |
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| disorder characterized by unreasonable suspicions and mistrust and irrational feelings about being persecuted by others |
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| narcissistic personality disorder |
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| disorder characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance |
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| inability to feel emotions |
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| antisocial personality disorder |
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| characterized by anti-social behavior |
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| not well adjusted to environment leading to impairment or distress |
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| biological model of addiction |
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| due primarily to a persons biochemistry, metabolism, and genetic pre disposition |
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| learning model of addiction |
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| role of the environment learning and culture in encouraging or discouraging drug abuse or addiction |
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| dissociative identity disorder |
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| marked by apparent appearance within one person of two or more distinct personalities, each with its own name and traits, also called MPD |
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| sociocognitive explanation of mpd |
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| an extreme form of the ability we all ahve to present different aspects of our personalities to others |
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| psychotic disorder marked by hallucinations or delusions |
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| an extreme mental disturbance involving distorted perceptions and irrational behavior |
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| jumble of ideas and symbols, linked by meaningless rhyming words or remote associations |
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| withdrawl from activitity, sitting hours without moving |
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| drugs used primarily in treatment of schizophrenia |
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| treatment of mood disorders, especially depression and anxiety |
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| commonly misused as drugs to counteract unhappiness and pain |
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| elevate levels of norepinephrine and serotonin in the brain by blocking an enzyme that deactivates these neurotransmitters |
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| tricyclic antidepressants |
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| boost serotonin levels by preventing the normal reabsorbtion |
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| work like tricyclics but target serotoin |
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| drug frequently given to people suffering from bipolar disorder |
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| apparent success of a medication that is due to the patients expectation or hopes rather then the drug itself |
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| amount that is enough but not too much |
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| any surgical procedure that destroys selected areas of the brain believed to be emotional disorders |
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| reduce emotional symptions by probing brain |
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| electroconvulsive therapy |
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| procedure used in cases of prolonged and severe major depressions |
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| using a pulsating magnetic coil held to a persons skull over the left prefrontal cortex. reduce depression |
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| depth psychotherapy developed by sigmund freud, exploration of unconscious motives |
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| process of saying freely whatever comes into the min d in connections with dreams memories or fantasies |
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| goal of exploring the unconscious dynamics of personality although they differ from fruedian analysis |
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| a critical process in which the client transfers unconscious emotions or reactions |
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| a form of therapy that applies principles principles of classical ad operant conditioning to help people change self defeating behavior |
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| method in which a person suffering from an anxiety disorder is confronted with that fear until the situation dissipates |
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| a firm of exposure treatment in which the client is taken directly into the feared situation until his panic subsides |
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| applied behavioral analysis |
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| applications of operant and classical conditioning |
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| systematic desensitization |
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| a step by step process of desensitizing a client to a feared object or experience |
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| behavioral self monitoring |
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| a method of keeping careful data on the frequency and consequences of the behavior to be changed |
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| an effort to teach the client skills that he or she may lack |
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| a stimulus with an unwanted response is paired with another stimulus that a response incompatible with the previous response |
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| form of therapy designed to identify and change irrational ways of thinking to reduce negative emotions |
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| one bad act by someone means they are all bad |
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| small problem into a disaster |
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| rational emotive behavior therapy |
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| a form of cognitive therapy to challenge the clients unrealistic thoughts |
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| a form of psychotherapy based on the philosophy of humanism, which emphasizes peoples free will to change |
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| humanist approach to therapy, emphasizes the therapists emphathy with the client |
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| form of therapy designed to help clients explore the meaning of existence and face the great questions of life |
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| unconditional positive regard |
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| intended to build the clients self esteem |
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| family systems perspective |
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| an approach to doing therapy with individuals or families by emphasizing how each family member forms part of a larger interacting system |
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| help couples understand and resolve the inevitable conflicts that occur in relationships |
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| bond of confidence and mutual understanding established between therapist and client, which allows them to work to solve the clients problems |
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| drawings on methods from various schools of thought |
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| state of arousal involving facial and bodily changes |
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| considered to be universal and biologically based |
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| specific to certain cultures |
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| facial muscles send messages to the brain about the basic emotions being expressed |
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| you start to express emotions that are expressed by others |
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| a small structure in the brains limbic system plays a key role in emotion |
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| brain cells that fire when a person or animal observes others carrying out an action |
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| epinephrine, norepinephrine |
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| chemical messengers produce a state of arousal and alertness |
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| the explanations that people make of their own and other's behavior |
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| social and cultural rules that regulate when and how a person might express emotions |
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| non verbal signals of body movement |
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| general adaptation syndrome |
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| a series of physiological reactions to stress occuring |
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| body mobilizes the sympathetic nervous system to meet the immediate threat |
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| resistance phase of stress |
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| body attempts to resist or cope with a stressor that cannot be avoided |
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| exhaustion phase of stress |
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| persistent stress depletes the body of energy thereby increasing the probability of physical problems or illness |
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| hormone that elevates blood surget to protect body |
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| white blood cells used to recognize foreign substances |
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| internal locus of control |
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| tend to believe they are responsible for what happens to them |
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| external locus of control |
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| lives controlled by luck or fate |
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| an effort to modify realty by changing other people, fighting back philosophy |
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| an effort to accept reality by changing your own attitudes goals or emotions |
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| cynical & antagonistic hostility |
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| people who are mistrustful of others and always ready to provoke mean furious arguments |
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| banishing bad thoughts or feeligns |
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| learning to alternately tense and relax muscles to mediate the clearing of one's own mind |
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| focuses on the emotional problems that are caused |
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| concentration on solving the problem before dealing with emotions |
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| altering the way you think about a stressor |
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| compare to some who is worse off |
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| reach out to others for support |
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| an inferred process within a person or animal that causes movement either towards a goal |
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| the desire to do something for its own sake and for the internal pleasure it provides |
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| the desire to do something for the sake of rewards, money fame |
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| whirlwind of intense emotions |
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| nearest are most likely distant |
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| looks, attributes, beliefs, smarts, etc |
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| attachment theory of love |
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| attachment styles are derived from how their parents treated them |
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| collections of rules that determine proper attitudes and behavior for men and women |
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| sets of implict rules that specify proper behavior for a person in a given situation |
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| the genetically influenced weight range for an individual maintained by biological mechanisms that regulate food intake, fat reserves and metabolism |
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| rate at which the body burns calories |
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| protein that regulates hunger in brain |
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| eating disorder characterized by purging and binging |
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| eating disorder characterized by fear of being fat |
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| a learned motive to meet personal standards of success and excellence in a chosen area |
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| projective test that asks respondents to interpret drawings showing scenes of people, scored for unconscious traits or motives |
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| goals framed in terms of desired outcomes of experience, such as learning to scuba |
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| framed in terms of avoiding unpleasant experiences |
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| framed in terms of performing well in front of others, being judged favorably |
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| framed in terms of increasing ones skills and competence |
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| self fulfilling philosophy |
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| expectation that is fullfilled because of the tendency of the person holding it to act in ways that bring it about |
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| person's belief taht he or she is capable of producing desired results, mastering new skills and reaching goals |
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| bonuses upon completion of a goal |
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| maslows heirarchy of needs |
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bottom: basic needs
4th: security needs
3rd: social needs
2nd: esteem needs
1st: self actualization/ transcendence |
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