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| parasympathetic nervous system |
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| reacts in nervous situation |
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| People often overestimate the clarity of their intentions in their emails because the underestimate the importance of what in communication |
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| Term referring to emotional release |
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| Feel good do good phenomenon |
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| people’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood |
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| The process by which we perceive and respond to environmental threats and challenges |
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| Aerobic exercise releases serotonin and endorphins in your brain to |
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| help alleviate stress and help with depression |
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| Individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking and acting |
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| Free association is the central process of what? (type of therapy) |
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| thoughts, wishes, feelings, memories that you are unaware of |
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| according to Freud, a boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father |
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| Defense mechanism by disguising threatening impulses by attributing them to others |
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| Different defense mechanisms |
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| Regression, reaction formation, projection, rationalization, displacement, and denial |
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| personality tests providing ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics (asked to tell or describe story) |
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| one of the ultimate psychological needs according to Maslov |
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| Carl Rogers- Attitude of total acceptance to another person |
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| unconditional positive regard |
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| perception that fate is determined by luck |
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| external locus of control |
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| a readiness to perceive oneself favorably |
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| strong self-esteem creates |
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| 3 things label behavior as disorder |
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| deviant, distressful, dysfunctional |
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| many clinicians diagnose disorders by answering questions from 5 levels |
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| college student is unexplainably and continually tense and uneasy |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread (doesn’t last as long as generalized) |
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| person feels irrationally and intensely afraid of a specific object or situation |
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| obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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| person is troubled by repetitive thoughts or actions |
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| post-traumatic stress disorder |
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| person experiences social withdrawal due to lingering memories, nightmares, and other symptoms for weeks after a severely threatening, uncontrollable event |
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| conscious awareness becomes separated |
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| sluggishness and inactivity associated with |
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| isorder when a person is hyperactive, widely optimistic |
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| swinging from depressed to manic state |
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| characterized by disorganized and fragmented thinking, dillusional, experienced with |
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| inappropriate emotions and catatonic |
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| preoccupied with own self-importance |
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| psychopath refers to what |
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| anti-social personality disorder (no guilty feelings toward hurting others) |
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| first psychological therapy was introduced by |
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| type of therapist who would explore a person’s childhood in attempt to explain psychological disorder |
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| helping people gain insight into the unconscious origins of their disorder |
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| updated form of Freud’s method of psychoanalysis; does not deal with id, ego, and superego |
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| central to psychoanalysis |
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| expression toward therapist linked with feelings that you experienced in earlier relationships |
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| type of therapist more likely to teach clients to take responsibility for their own actions |
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| focus on personal growth and self-fulfillment |
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| Carl Rogers and client centered therapy |
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| humanistic (active listening and empathy) |
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| Psychological research on principles of learning |
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| Scenario with liquid sensitive pad to treat child bedwetting |
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| behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid |
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| a type of counter-conditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior |
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| what involves associating a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli |
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| systematic desensitization |
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| people with similar problems |
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| scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another |
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| type of theory designed to explain how people behave by crediting either the situation or the person’s disposition |
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| foot-in-the-door phenomenon |
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| tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request |
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| Phillip Zimbardo experiment |
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| role playing on attitudes |
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| unconsciously mimicking others’ expressions, postures, and voice tones |
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| adjusting one’s behavior or thinking to a group’s standard |
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| teacher and learner (electric shocks for wrong answers); obedience to those in authority |
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| when you don’t work as hard when you are in a group |
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| loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity (mob type setting) |
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| enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group |
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| unjustifiable attitude toward a group and its members |
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| a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people |
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| deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined |
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| aroused state of intense positive absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship |
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| a condition in which people receive from a relationship in proportion to what they give to it |
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| revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others |
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| unselfish regard for the welfare of others |
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| tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present |
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| theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame |
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