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| Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional behavior patters |
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| Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
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| 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 in most cases, cured. Assumes that mental illnesses can be diagnosed on the basis of their symptoms and cured through therapy, which may include treatment in a psychiatric hospital. |
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| "American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" ...widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. Critics say that it classifies almost ANY behavior as a disorder. |
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| Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes. |
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| Major depressive disorder |
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| Mood disorder in which a person experiences two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings or worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities |
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| Mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state |
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| Bipolar Disorder (manic-depressive disorder) |
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| Mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania. |
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| A neurotransmitter that increases arousal and boosts mood - scarce during depression and overabundant during mania |
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| Researchers use this method to tease out which genes in a person that put them at risk for depression. |
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| Memory-processing center linked with the brain's emotional circuitry that's also vulnerable to stress-related damage. |
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| A "good" fat that enhances brain function. People with depression have lower levels of it in their diet and blood. |
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| Literally means "split mind". A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed preceptions, 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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| What are the symptoms of Schizophrenia? |
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| Disorganized thinkin, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions. |
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| What are some causes for Schizophrenia? |
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| Dopamine overactivity, abnormal brain activity and anatomy, maternal virus during mid-pregnancy (viral infection that impairs fetal brain development). |
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| Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system |
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| The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior |
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| Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 dopamine receptors |
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| Such as Xanax or Ativan, which depress central nervous system activity and should not be used w/ alcohol |
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| Mood-stabilizer for those suffering bipolar disorder |
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| Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) |
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| A biomedical therapy for severly depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patients with severe depression. |
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| Suggests how we explain someone's behavior - by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition |
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| Fundamental Attribution Error |
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| The tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of the personal disposition |
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| feelings, often based on our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events. |
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| Foot-in-the-door Penomenon |
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| The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request |
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| Cognitive Dissonance Theory |
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| Theory that we act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) are inconsistent. |
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| adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard. |
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| Normative social influence |
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| Influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval |
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| Informative social influence |
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| Influence resulting from one's willingness to accept others' opinions about reality. |
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| Social psychologist that performed the Teacher vs Learner experiment which demonstrated that strong social influences can make normal people conform to falsehoods or capitulate to cruelty. |
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| Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others |
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| The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable. |
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| The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity. |
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| The enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group. |
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| the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives. |
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