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| pursuit of an activity for its own sake |
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| pursuit of an activity for external rewards such as money or fame |
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| genetically influenced weight range for an individual, maintained by biological mechanisms that regulate food intake, fat reserves, and metabolism |
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| Alters brain chemistry that influences how animals eat as adults |
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| How does leptin regulate weight? |
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| Strengthens neural circuits in hypothalamus that reduce appetite and weakening neural circuits that strengthen appetite |
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| Hormones involved in love |
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| Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love |
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| passion, intimacy, and commitment |
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| Pyramid of Needs (self-actualization at the top, physiological needs at the bottom) |
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| A deviation from the average, a deviation from the ideal, a sense of personal discomfort, the inability to function effectively, a legal concept |
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| Any behavior or emotional state that causes a person to suffer, is self-destructive; seriously impairs the person's ability to work or get along with others; or endangers others or the community |
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| Primary clinical problem, personality disorders, general medical conditions, social and environmental stressors, global assesment of overall functioning |
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| GAD, phobic disorder, panic disorder, anxiety disorder |
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| A persistent, unwanted thought or idea that keeps recurring |
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| Worthless feelings, Loneliness, Crying, Sleep Disturbance, Suicidal Ideation |
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| Two classes of antidepressants |
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| What is the best treatment for clinical depression? |
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| Severe distortion of reality (a class of disorders) |
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| Symptoms of schizophrenia |
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| Decline from a previous level of functioning, disturbances of thought and language, delusions, hallucinations, emotional disturbances, withdrawal |
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| Process schizophrenia, reactive schizophrenia, positive-symptom schizophrenia, negative-symptom schizophrenia |
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| Dopamine hypothesis behind schizophrenia |
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| Occurs when there is excess of activity in the brain in areas that use dopamine as a neurotransmitter |
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