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Personality, Disorders & Psychotherapy
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/05/2012

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instinct
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a complex behavior that is rigidly patterened througout a species and is unlearned
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Motivation
Definition
a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
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drive-reduction theory
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the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need
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homeostasis
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a tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state
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incentive
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a positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior
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glucose
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the form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides major source of energy for body tissues. when its low, we feel hunger
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set point
Definition
the point at which an individual's "weight thermostat" is supposedly set. When the body falls below this weight, an increase in hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may act to restore the weight
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basal metabolic rate
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the body's resting rate of energy expenditure
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anorexia nervosa
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an eating disorder in which a person diets and becomes significantly (15% or more) underweight, but still feels fate and continues to starve.
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bulimia nervosa
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an eating disorder characterized by overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive excersize
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binge-eating disorder
Definition
significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust or guilt, but without the compensatory purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia
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sexual response cycle
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four stages of sexual responding as describes by Master & Johnson-- excitement, plateau, orgasm, & resolution
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refractory period
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a resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm
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sexual disorder
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a problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning
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estrogen
Definition
female sex hormone
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testosterone
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male sex hormone
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sexual orientation
Definition
an enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one's own sex or other sex
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flow
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a completely involved, focused state of consciousness, with diminished awareness of self and time, resulting from optimal engagement of one's skills.
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industrial (I/O) Psych
Definition
the application of psych concepts and methods to optimizing human behaviors in the workplace
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personnel psych
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a subfield of I/O psych that focuses on employee recruitment, selection, placement, training, appraisal, and development
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organizational psych
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a subfield of I/O psych that examines organizational influences on worker satisfaction and productivity and facilitates change
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structured interviews
Definition
interview process that asks the same job-relevant questions of all applicants, each of whom is rated on established skills
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achievement motivation
Definition
a desire for significant accomplishment
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task leadership
Definition
goal-oriented leadership that sets standards, organizes work, and focuses attention on goals
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social leadership
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group-oriented leadership that builds teamwork, mediates conflict, and offers support
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emotion
Definition
a response of the whole organism involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, & conscious experience
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James-Lange theory
Definition
the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli
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Cannon-Bard theory
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the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological response and the subjective experience of emotion
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two-factor theory
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the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal
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catharsis
Definition
emotional release
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feel-good, do-good phenomenon
Definition
people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
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subjective well-being
Definition
self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life
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adaptation-level phenomenon
Definition
our tendency to form judgements relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
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relative deprivation
Definition
the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself
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behavioral medicine
Definition
an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease
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health psych
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a subfield of psych that provides psych contribution to behavioral med
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stress
Definition
the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events (stressors) that we perceive as threatening
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general adaptation syndrome
Definition
Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases-- alarm, resistance, exhaustion
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coronary heart disease
Definition
the clogging of the vessels that nourish the h
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coronary heart disease
Definition
the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle
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Type A
Definition
Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people
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Type B
Definition
Friedman's and Rosenman's term for easy going, relaxed people
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psychophysio illness
Definition
mind-body illness; any stress related physical illness
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psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)
Definition
the study of how psychological, neuural and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health
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lymphocytes
Definition
the two types of white blood cells that are part of the immune system: B lymphocytes and T lymphocytes
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B Lymphocytes
Definition
Form the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections
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T Lymphocytes
Definition
form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses and foreign substances
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coping
Definition
alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive or behavioral methods
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problem-focused coping
Definition
attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with it
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emotion-focused coping
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attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to ones stress reaction
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aerobic exercise
Definition
sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness
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biofeedback
Definition
a system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state
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Complimentary and alternative meds (CAM)
Definition
as yet unproven health care treatment intended to supplement or serve as alternatives to conventional medicine
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personality
Definition
an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking , feeling and acting
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free association
Definition
in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxed and says whatever comes to mind
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psychoanalysis
Definition
freud's theory of personalty that attributed thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
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unconscious
Definition
a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories
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id
Definition
contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
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ego
Definition
the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that mediates among the demands of id, superego and reality
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superego
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the part of the personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for the future
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psychosexual stages
Definition
the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones (pleasure seeking areas of body)
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Oedipus Complex
Definition
a boy's sexual desire toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
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identification
Definition
the process by which children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos
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fixation
Definition
a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved
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defense mechanism
Definition
the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
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repression
Definition
the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness
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regression
Definition
defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage
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reaction formation
Definition
consciously makes unacceptable impulses look like their opposites
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projection
Definition
disguising the impulses by attributing them to others
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rationalization
Definition
self-justifying your actions
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displacement
Definition
shifts sexual or aggressive behavior to make it acceptable
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denial
Definition
rejecting a fact or its seriousness
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collective unconscious
Definition
Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir or memory traces from our species' history
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projective test
Definition
A personality test, such as Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner thoughts
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Definition
a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes
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Rorschach inkblot test
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the most widely used projective test; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
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terror-management theory
Definition
a theory of death-related anxiety; explores people's behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death
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