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| what causes personality disorders? |
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| emotions you have, thoughts, and beliefs. |
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| Characteristics of Antisocial Personality disorders. |
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Breaking laws
lying
acting impulsivly
aggressiveness
recklessness
being irresponsible
lack of guilt |
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| what disorder to sociopaths and serial killers usually have? |
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| antisocial personality disorder. |
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| characteristics of borderline personailty disorder. |
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instability in relationships
mood swings
problems with their self-image
self-harm b/c of abondonment
switching
risky behavior-drugs,alcohol,and unsafe sex.
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| what does switching mean? |
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| putting someone on a pedal-stool then when they do the first thing wrong, completely turning on that person |
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| what personality disorder is switching involved in? |
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| characteristics of Narcissistic personality disorder. |
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think highly of theirself.
need for admiration.
don't care about other's feelings.
feels good for putting others down.
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| how many different types of schizophrenia are there and what are they? |
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three.
-paranoid,disorganized,and catatonic. |
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| what does the word schizophrenia mean? |
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| what are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia? |
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excess or distortion of normal functions.
exaggeration of movements. |
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| what are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia? |
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False persistent belifs
*person clings to these beliefs even if proven false.* |
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| Hearing,seeing, or smelling things that aren't there. |
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thinking things that aren't thurough.
jumbled thoughts. |
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Positive inappropriate emotions.
ex-laughing at your mothers funeral |
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| the reaction to something isn't it would be in a normal human |
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negative inappropriate emotions
ex-being numb/disconnected |
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| not feeling anything at all |
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| emotions that don't make sense |
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| what are biological factors that could affect someone to have schizophernia? |
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your brain size
less brain activity
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| what is an evironmental factor that could cause schizophrenia? |
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| a mother getting the flu when she is pregnant |
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| assumes that people disownparts of themselves that are socially disapproval. |
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| Focuses on what people do and how they act. |
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| systematic densenisitization |
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| reduces fears by associating a hierarchy of images of fear evoking stimuli with deep muscles relaxation. |
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aversive conditioning
ex-rapid smoking. |
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| undesired responses are inhibited by paring an offensive stimuli with them |
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over exposure
ex-5 stoges at once |
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| over doing something to make you associate it badly |
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| rewarded after certain amount of time. |
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| reinforced with tokens with that can be exchaged for privileges for desired behaviors. |
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| Successive Approximations |
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| increase behavior with gradual steps |
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| how the client and therapist interact with one another. |
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| therapy is based on theory and research |
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| what causes people to go to therapy? |
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thoughts
feelings
beliefs |
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| what are two reasons for therapy? |
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Definition
psych disorders
adjustment disorder
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| State of great turmoil or confusion. |
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| how many residents lived in mental hospitals in the mid-50's? |
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| Community Mental Health Movement |
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| keep patients intergrated in the community as outpatients. |
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| Traditional Psychoanalysis |
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| allows client to self-explore with little to no intervention from the therapist. |
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| what is traditional psychoanalysis used for? |
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| designed to provide insight into the root problem of a person's conflicts. |
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| expression of repressed feelings and impulses. |
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| uncensored uttering of all the thoughts that come to your mind |
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| tendency to block the free expression of impulses. |
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transference
(mother/daughter) |
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| transferring parts of a problematic relationship onto the therapist and reinact it |
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counter-transference
ex=your therapist/their mother |
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| therapist projects aspects of their personality to you. |
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| focuses on quality of client's conscious ecperience |
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client centered therapy
-carl rodgers |
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| we make choices and control our destines despite the past. |
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| client centered therapy believes ______________. |
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| disorders arise when we encounter roadblocks on our path to self-actualization |
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| Focuses on how people think and how to change that |
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| what is selective perception? |
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| see world as dangerous and threating and ignore evidence to the contrary |
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| when you blow something out or proportion of the importance of something negative. |
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| what is Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy? |
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Beliefs about an even will shape our response to it.
-most of us harbor traditional beliefs that can lead to problems. |
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How many types of group therapies are there?
What are they called? |
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3.
encounter.ex-AA
couples.ex-hus/wife
family.ex-mother/daught. |
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| using a computer and looking for all studies done on a specific problem(PTSD) and combining it into a paper. |
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| who did the most popular meta-analysis? |
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| what did smith glass and miller find in their meta-analysis? |
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| that people treated did 70% better than those who weren't treated. |
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what are some anti-anxiety drugs?
what are they best used for? |
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Definition
minor tranqulizers/benzodiapines
-valium and xanax
anxiety and panic attacks |
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What are some anti-psychotic drugs?
what are they best used for?
what do they do? |
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-major tranquilizers
-Schicophernia
-it reduces agitation and blocks dopmamine
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what are anti-depressiants used for?
what do they do? |
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-depression,eating disorders,OCD,social phobia
-increases nonadrenline and saratonin |
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| what do Monoamine Oxidase Inhibators do? |
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| blocks breakdown of nonadrenline and saratonin |
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what are some SSRI's?
what do they do?
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-Prozac,Zoloft,and effexor
-blocks reuptake of seratonin |
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| surgery intended to promote psychological change |
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-Only 6 questions that less than 90% of the class got right
-82 class avg on last test
-michael was survey guys name |
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| study of individual differences that look for general laws about how an aspect of personality affects behavior. |
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| study of individual differences that focus on intensive study of individuals. |
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| Temporary activation on particular behavior |
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| Consistent,long-lasting tendency in behavior. |
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| Internal Locust of Control |
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| people believing they are mostly in control of their lives. |
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| External Locust of Control |
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| people beleving they are mostly being controlled by external things. |
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What are the big five personality traits?
-ocean- |
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open-ness to experiences
conscientiousness
extraversion
aggreeableness
neuroticism |
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| tendency to enjoy new intellectual experiences/fantisies, and anything that exposes you to new ideas. |
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Neuroticism
-characterized by anxiety. |
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| being able to experience bad/unpleasent emotions easily. |
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Conscientiousness
-army general. |
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| being able to show self-discipline, be dutiful, and strive for achievement. |
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| tendency to seek stimulation and to enjoy other people's company |
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| showing compassion towards others and not antagonistic. |
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Unshared environment
ex-shower time |
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| things in someone's environment that differ from one person to the next |
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| the older you get the more consistant |
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Definition
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childhood-
college-
30-
60- |
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Definition
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| as we get older we become less |
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| extroberted and more conscientious and higher anxiety |
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Barnum Effect
ex-fortune cookie and me believing all my horoscopes. |
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| people tend to accept any personality ass. that someone offers them. ususally general and vague. |
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| Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory(MMIP) |
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Definition
| self test. true flase. made in the 1940;s with 550 items then updated in 90's with 567. |
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how many scales are there in the MMIP?
how many items are in each scale of the MMIP? |
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| the names of the 10 scales in MMIP |
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-hypochondria -Schizopherni
-depression -hypomania
-psychopathic deviation -Social Introversion
-masculinty/femininity -Paranoia
-OCD -Hysteria |
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| Thematic Apperception Test |
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| person is asked to tell a story about what has, is, and will happen in a picture |
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| based on someones interutations of 10 ink blots |
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| open ended to allow unlimited amount of responses. |
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| what are the uses of personality tests? |
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"break the ice"
personality assesment. |
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| what are the misuses of personality tests? |
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diagnosing
being used for important decisions
(ex.hospialization)
interpret with lots of caution |
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