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| With repeated exposure to a drug, the drug's effect lessens. It takes greater quantities to get the desired effect. |
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| A craving for a chemical substance, despite its adverse consequences (physical and psychological). |
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| The discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug. |
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| Absence of a drug may lead to a feeling of physical pain or intense cravings. |
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| Drugs such as alcohol, opiates, and barbiturates that calm neural activity and slow body functions. |
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| Drugs that excite neural activity and speed up body function (i.e. caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines, cocaine, and ecstasy) |
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| Psychedelic drugs that distort perceptions (i.e. LSD, Ganj) |
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- Aims to bring repressed feelings into concious awareness where the patient can deal with them
- Aimed to understand childhood
- Developed by Freud
- First form of therapy
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| A type of psychoanalysis where a patient just talks. |
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| Patient edits their thoughts, resisting his or her feelings to express emotions |
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Developing positive or negative feelings towards the therapist
Ex. the therapist reminds you of your mother, whom you hate, so feelings of hatred transfer to the therapist |
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| In face to face setting, trying to understand symptoms and themes across important relationships. |
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- Relationship between therapist and patient important
- Focuses on self-fufillment and self-worth
- Carl Rogers
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| Accepting, non-judgemental listening by therapist. Part of Humanistic Therapy. |
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| Echoes, restates, and clarifies patient's thinking |
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- Applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors (ex. smoking, phobias)
- Doesn't care about self awareness
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Procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors
Associate with something more positive
Ex. potty training --> candy |
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Expose patients to fear/phobia
Repeated exposure, anxiety lessens |
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| Simulations of anxiety producing situations (ex. simulated flying) |
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| Systematic Desensitization |
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| Gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli and association with a pleasant, relaxed state. |
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Associating an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
(ex. snap a rubber band against wrist when you smoke) |
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| Combine the reversal of self-defeated thinking with efforts to modify behavior (irrational beliefs) |
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| Conitive-behavioral Therapy |
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Alter the way people act (behavior) and the way they think (cognitive).
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- Consists of 6-9 people attending a 90 minute session that can help more people and cost less.
- Benefit from others with similar problems
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- Treats family as a system
- Guides towards positive relationship and better communication
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- Drug Therapy
- Has reduced amounts of residents in psychiatric hospitals
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| Remove a number of symptoms associated with schizophrenia (agitations, delusions, hallucinations) |
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Remove negative symptoms associated
Reduce hallucinations, anxiety, and depression |
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- Electroconvulsive Therapy
- Small shocks that treat depression
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A mix of therapies made specific to a person
(ex. a bit of cognitive, some behavioral, some exposure, etc.) |
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| Fundamental Attribution Error |
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| The tendancy, when analyzing another's behavior, to overestimate the influence of peronal traits and underestimate the effects of the situation. (You think its the person, not the situation) |
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| The tendency of people to agree with larger request when a smaller one has already been accepted. |
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| Cognitive Dissonance Theory |
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| The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts contradict one another. |
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| What factors make us more likely to conform? |
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-Incompetence
-Large group
-The group is in unanimous agreement |
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| What factors make obedience the highest? |
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-Person giving orders is close at hand and percieved as legitimate authortity figure
-Authority is supported by a respected, well known institution
-No role models for defiance exist |
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| Stronger responses to simple, well-known tasks in front of others (professional athletes in front of a crowd) |
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| Tendency for people to "slack off" when in a group. |
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| The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occuring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity. (firing squad, riot) |
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| Enhancement of a group's inclinations through discussions within the group (positive or negative) (suicide bombers, cults, religion) |
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| Occurs when the desire for harmony within a group overrides judging realistically. (the challenger) |
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