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| used for diagnosing psychological disorders |
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| diagnosing people with normal behavior |
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| advantage of experimental method |
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| identify cause and effect relationship with 2 or more variables. |
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| largest lobe of the brain |
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| increased about of REM sleep that occurs after REM deprivation, often associated with bad dreams or nightmares |
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| process of sorting through sensations and selecting some for further processing |
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| extremely vivid memory of the conditions surrounding one's first hearing the news of a surprising, shocking, or highly emotional event |
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| Bandura's Bobo doll experiment |
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| children learn to copy aggression by observing adult model's acting aggressively |
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| reliability of a standardized test |
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| can be reliable but not valuable.. to be valid must be reliable |
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| separation in anxiety in infants |
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| fear and distress when parents leave child usually peaks between 12 and 18 months |
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| college attendance and formal operational thinking |
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| the longer you stay in college the greater your operational thinking is, and your abstract logical thought. |
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| cultural rules that dictate how you should behave in different places at different times |
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| raised sore, rash and fever, can be cured. stage three, leads to blindness, paralysis, mental illness, and/or death |
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| Seligman's theory on optimism and immune system |
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| the more optimistic you are, you can buff yourself from stress |
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| as number of bystanders to an accident increase, the chance of the victim getting help decreases because they all think someone else will help. |
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| conscious, preconscious, unconscious |
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| (preconscious/unconscious) conscience, internal restraint, sometimes demands perfection |
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| to remove the thought/memory |
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| putting one's feelings on someone else |
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| freud's first staff of psychosexual development |
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| why psychoanalytic theories are criticized |
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| overemphasis on sexuality and bias |
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| persona, shadow, anima-inner self, animus-attitude, introverts and extroverts |
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| environmental/social factors (culture); childhood relationships are the reasons behind personality and why people behave the way they do. |
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| perception a person has about their ability to perform competently whatever is attempted. |
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| internal locas of control |
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| external locus of control |
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| things happen because of luck |
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| roger's conditions of wealth |
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| those raised in an environment of conditional positive regard only feel worthy if they math conditions that have been laid down by others |
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| Maslow's self actualization |
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| developing to one's full attention |
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| the most defining trait of you |
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| Situation or State Trait Debate |
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| personality remains constant over long periods of time yet situations exert powerful influence |
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| raising adopted children with personalities most like their biological parents |
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| banduras reciprocal determinism |
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| behavior, environment, and traits interact |
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| individualism and collectivism are the differences in the personalities |
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| 3 categories of personality assessment |
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| observation, interviews, and rating scales |
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| the applicants asked the same questions in the same way |
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| project concern in what they see |
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| vague;they tell a story about a picture and you keep prompting them, usually it has something to do with their childhood |
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| let them fill in a sentence |
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| diagnostic and statistical manual is used to diagnose mental disorders |
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| psychodynamic perspectives |
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| biopsychosocial perspective |
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| negative views (world, self, others) |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| vague but intense hyper-vigilance (state of being very alert or watchful) |
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| panic disorder-terror attacks |
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| most common compulsive disorder |
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| OCD-recurring thoughts, repetitive actions (hand washing) |
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| occurs in bipolar disorders; point of extreme happiness |
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| most women are unsuccessful, most white males over age 65 succeed |
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| what disorder did Van goh have? |
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| incidence of bipolar disorder |
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| alternating bouts of mania and depression |
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| incidence of major depressive disorder |
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| sadness, cultural and gender-symptoms: tired, apathetic, insomnia, lost interes in food, sex, lack of concentration |
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| positive schizophrenia symptoms |
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| hallucination, delusion, disorganized speech, thought and behavior |
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| negative schizophrenia symptoms |
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| lack of emotional response, limited speech, apathy |
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| genetic factors in schizophrenia |
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| the closer the relative that has it is to you, the more likely you are to get it |
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| common hallucinations in schizophrenics |
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| suspiciousness, delusions |
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| interprets small symptoms as a sign of a serious disease |
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| conversion disorder, bizarre symptoms |
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| leaves home and assumes new identity with no memory of old life |
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| dissociative identity disorder |
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| formerly multiple personality disorder, extremely rare.. 90% are women |
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| Why are people with personality disorders always in trouble? |
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| they blame others, it a lifelong thing |
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| antisocial personality disorder |
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| autism spectrum disorders |
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| difficulty maintaining social relationships because they dont understand others feelings and thoughts. limited language. |
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| normal language, and cognitive skills, they dont understand others feelings and thoughts |
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| impulsivity, conduct disorders may be present |
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| only treatment for emotional/behavioral disorder that use psychological rather that biological means |
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| psychodynamic assumptions |
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| freudian psychoanalysis: free association, stream of consciousness |
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| IPT effectiveness with mild depression |
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| change all to benefit family unit |
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| genuine, get in touch with your feelings |
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| client in charge, therapist there for moral support |
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| exchange for goods or services later |
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| group therapy where everyone has a common problem and meet to give and receive support |
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| exposure and response prevention for OCD |
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| expose patient to stimuli and have them delay their compulsion for progressively longer times |
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| participant modeling and its classification |
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| watch others perform desired action, then therapist prompts them to do the same |
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| activating event, irrational belief about event, emotional consequence |
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| depression results from negative patterns of thoughts |
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| why antipsychotics are prescribed |
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| reduce hallucinations and delusions |
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| side affects of antipsychotic drugs |
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| continuos twitching and jerking movements of face and tongue |
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| antidepressants are prescribed for |
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| anxiety and depression disorders |
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| electric currents through right hemisphere of brain for patients with severe depression and suicidal |
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| invasive and irreversible |
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psychotherapy works for many people, its very effective.
psychotherapy alone works about as much as it does with drugs |
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| culturally sensitive psychotherapy |
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| knowledge of clients cultural background, guides choices of therapeutic interventions |
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