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| Said that just because something it out of the norm, its bad |
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| proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease |
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| involves distinguishing one illness from another |
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| a forecast about the probable course of an illness |
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| Deviant (Outside of the norm), Dysfunctional (Interferes with functioning), Demand or Danger (Client demands help or it causes physical danger to anyone or patient's personal distress) |
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| Personality disorders or mental retardation |
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| General Medical Conditions |
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| Psychosocial and Environmental Problems |
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| Global Assessment of Functioning Scale |
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| Generalized anxiety disorder, phobias, panic disorder, Agoraphobia, OCD, PTSD |
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| Etiology of anxiety disorders |
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| Genetics, neurochemicals, classical/operant conditioning, cognitive thought processes, personality, stress associated with onset of disorders |
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| physical ailments with no organic basis |
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| having a history of diverse physical complaints. Axis 3 of DSM |
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| convinced that they are becoming seriously ill with life-threatening things |
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| characterized by a significant loss of physical function (with no apparent organic basis) |
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| Etiology of somatoform disorders |
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| associated with drama, neuroticism on the DSM list, excessive attention to physical processes, like being sick because they get attention and care |
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| loss of memory for info linked to a certain event |
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| Loss of memory for all sense of identifying information (name, dress, relatives, etc) |
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| Dissociative Identity disorder |
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| multiple personality disorder |
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| Etiology of dissociative disorders |
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| disorders marked by emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical, perceptual, social, and thought processes |
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| Major depressive disorder |
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| people show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure |
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| characterized by the experience of one or more manic episodes as well as periods of depression |
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| delusions, bizarre behavior, hallucinations, disturbed emotions |
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| Schizophrenia subtype: paranoid |
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| dominated by delusions of persecution, along with delusions of grandeur |
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| Schizophrenia subtype: Catatonic |
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| marked by striking motor disturbances, ranging from muscular rigidity to random motor activity |
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| Schizophrenia subtype: disorganized |
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| severe deterioration of adaptive behavior is seen |
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| Schizophrenia subtype: undifferentiated |
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| marked by idiosyncratic mixtures of schizophrenic symptoms |
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| Etiology of Schizophrenia |
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| excessive dopamine, deficits in attention, perception, and information processing |
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| abnormal syndromes found only in a few cultural groups |
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| intense fear of gaining weight, disturbed body image, refusal to maintain normal weight, and use of dangerous measures to lose weight |
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| habitually engaging in out-of-control overeating followed by unhealthy compensatory efforts, such as self-induced vomiting, fasting, abuse of laxatives and diuretics, and excessive exercise |
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| coexistence of two or more disorders |
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| plead insanity for crime and you serve the sentence at an institution instead of jail |
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| when they are a danger to themselves |
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| transferring the treatment of mental illness from inpatient institutions to community-based facilities that emphasize outpatient care |
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| talk things over and gain insight, client-centered or group therapy, try and get into unconscious |
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| operant and classical conditioning, systematic desensitization(phobias), aversion therapy(pair activity with something negative), social skills training, restructuring thoughts |
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| brain surgery, shock therapy, medications |
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| studied the differences in close relationships in different cultures across the world |
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| proposed that romantic relationships are characterized by passionate love(complete absorption in another) and companionate love(warm, trusting, tolerant affection) |
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| love also includes intimacy and commitment |
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| widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group |
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| negative attitude held towards members of a group |
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| behaving differently, usually unfairly, towards the members of a group |
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| sex, age, ethnicity, culture |
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| putting personal goals ahead of group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes |
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| putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining one's identity in terms of the groups one belongs to |
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| stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus |
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| form of learning in which responses come to be controlled by their consequences |
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| organism's responding is influenced by the observation of others, who are called models |
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| persuasion source factors |
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| credibility, expertise, trustworthiness, likability |
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| persuasion message factors |
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| validity effect, appeals to fear |
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| persuasion audience factors |
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| stronger attitudes are more resistant to change, resistance can promote resistance |
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| 4 factors of interpersonal attraction |
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| physical attractiveness, similarity effects, reciprocity effects (liking those who show they like you), romantic ideals |
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| males and females of approximately equal physical attractiveness are likely to select each other as partners |
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| a reduction in effort by individuals when they work in groups as compared to when they work by themselves |
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| people are less likely to provide needed help when they are in groups than when they are alone |
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| occurs when members of a cohesive group emphasize concurrence at the expense of critical thinking in arriving at a decision |
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| getting someone to commit to an attractive proposition before its hidden costs are revealed |
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| getting people to agree to a small request to increase the chances that they will agree to a larger request later |
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