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| Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people |
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| F and R's term for easygoing, relaxed people |
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| Psychophysiological illness |
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| mind-body illness; any stress-related physical illness like hypertension and headaches |
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| white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system |
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| forms in bone marrow and releases antibodies that fight bacterial infections |
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| forms in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and other foreign substances |
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| agent in immune system that identifies, pursues, and ingests harmful invaders |
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| acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
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| alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods |
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| attempting to alleviate stress directly, by changing the stressor or the way we interact with the stressor |
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| attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction |
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| sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety |
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| a system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back info regarding a subtle physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension |
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| weight thermostat; amount of net calories needed to maintain weight |
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| chemical reactions in body involved in breaking down fuel and converting to usable form |
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| fat-signaling hormone that tells you when you're full from brain |
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| hormone from stomach that stimulates hunger |
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| Complementary and alternative medicine |
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| unproven health care treatments not taught widely in medical schools, not used in hospitals, and not usually reimbursed by insurance companies |
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| deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional behavior patterns |
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| ADHD (Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) |
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| a psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity |
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| the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and cured |
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| American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, a widely used system for classifying psych disorders |
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| Is a clinical syndrome present? |
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| Is a personality disorder or mental retardation present? |
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| Is a general medication condition also present? |
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| Are psychosocial or environmental problems also present? |
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| What is global assessment of this person's functioning? |
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| Generalized anxiety disorder |
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| an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal |
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| an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experience terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations |
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| fear or avoidance of situations in which escape might be difficult or help unavailable when panic strikes |
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| an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation |
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| fear of being scrutinized by others |
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| OCD (Obsessive-compulsive disorder) |
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| an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions |
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| PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) |
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| an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that linger for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience |
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| disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings |
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| Dissociative identity disorder |
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| a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities |
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| psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes |
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| Major depressive disorder |
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| a mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities |
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| an in-between of normal mood and depression, lasting two years or more |
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| a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state |
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| a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state if mania |
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| a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions |
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| false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders |
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| zombielike state of apathy |
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| remaining motionless for hours and then becoming agitated |
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| presence of inappropriate behaviors |
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| absence of appropriate behaviors |
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| psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning |
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| Avoidant personality disorder |
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| fearful sensitivity to rejection; expresses anxiety |
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| Schizoid personality disorder |
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| emotionless disengagement; eccentric behaviors |
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| Histrionic personality disorder |
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| shallow, attention-getting emotions and goes to great lengths to gain others' praise and reassurance |
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| Narcissistic personality disorder |
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| exaggerate own importance, aided by success fantasies |
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| Borderline personality disorder |
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| unstable identity, unstable relationships, and unstable and impulsive emotions |
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| Antisocial personality disorder |
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| personality disorder in which the person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members |
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| an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties |
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| prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system |
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| an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy |
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| Freud's therapeutic technique; Free association, resistances, dreams, and transference - and therapist's interpretation - released previously repressed feelings, allowing patient to gain self-insight |
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| in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material |
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| in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight |
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| in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (like love or hatred for parent) |
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