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| Someone recieving the information being taught |
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| Someone instilling information into someone else |
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| Adaptation-Level Phenomenon |
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Our tendency to form judgement relative to a nuetral level defined by our past experiences
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| activiaty that increases heart rate and lung fitness |
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| The initial stage in the body's response to stressful stimuli, characterized by adaptive physiological changes, such as increased hormonal activity and increased heart rate. |
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| Drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded up body functions and associated energy and mood changes |
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| lima bean sized nueral clusters in the limbic system |
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| emotion characterized by antagonism toward someone or something you feel has deliberately done you wrong. |
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| drugs used to control anxiety and agitation |
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| Antidepressant medications |
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| Drugs used to treat depression,OCD,and Ptsd, |
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| Anti-Psychotic medications |
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| drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder |
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| Antisocial personality disorder |
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| a disorder in which a person lacks a conscience of wrongdoing, even towards friends and family, may be aggressive (profession could be a con artist) |
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| notice taken of someone or something; the regarding of someone or something as interesting or important. |
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| (ADHD) Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder |
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| A psychological disorder marked by extreme inattention or hyperactivity impulsivity |
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| a type of behavior conditioning in which noxious stimuli are associated with undesirable or unwanted behavior that is to be modified or abolished |
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| drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system |
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| a treatment approach, based on the principles of operant conditioning, that replaces undesirable behaviors with more desirable ones through positive or negative reinforcement |
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1. Conscientiousness
2. Agreeableness
3. Neurotic-ism
4. Openness
5. Extra-version |
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| prescribed medications or producers that act directly on the person's physiology |
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| 1.Bipolar disorder/ 2. Manic depressive disorder |
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Both forms of depression
1. a mood disorder in which a person switches between hopelessness of depression and manic over-excitement
2. Two or more weeks of the sympotms of depression, loss in interest of things that were once enjoyable, depressed |
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| the tendency for any given bystander to be given aid if other bystanders are present |
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| a call to take part in a contest or competition, especially a duel |
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| a strong stimulant mostly used as a recreational drug |
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| personal interpretation of a situation; it is how an individual views a situation |
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| the theory that we act to reduce the discomfort that we feel when two of our thoughts clash |
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| a branch of psychology concerned with mental processes (as perception, thinking, learning, and memory) especially with respect to the internal events occurring between sensory stimulation and the overt expression of behavior—compare behaviorism. |
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| therapeutic approach new more adaptive ways to think |
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| Cognitive-behavioural Therapy |
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| a popular integrative theory that combines cognitive theory (Changing self-defeating thinking) with behaviour therapy (changing behaviour) |
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| Adjusting our behaviour or thinking to coincide with a group standard |
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| personality trait of being thorough, careful, or vigilant. |
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| behaviour therapy that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviours |
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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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| false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany schizophrenia and other disorders |
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| the action of declaring something to be untrue.(not acknowledging the true) |
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| drugs that reduce neural activity and slow body functions |
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| a common mental disorder that causes people to experience depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy, and poor concentration. |
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| Not being able to think straight |
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| the disconnection or separation of something from something else or the state of being disconnected. |
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| a brain chemical involved in many different functions including movement, motivation, reward — and addiction. |
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| A widely used system used to classifying physiological disorders |
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| The largely conscious "executive" part of the personality that, according to Freud balances of the ID, Superego and reality |
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| girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father. |
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| Electroconvulsive Therapy |
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| trying to reduce stress by avoiding or ignoring the stressor |
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| a condition in which people recieve from a relationship in portion to what they give |
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| a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness. |
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| a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, i.e., as the functional products of natural selection. |
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| a state of extreme physical or mental fatigue |
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| Behvaioural techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to things they fear or try to avoid |
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| External locus of Control |
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| the perception that chance or outside forces control our fate |
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| the false-consensus effect or false-consensus bias is a cognitive bias whereby a person tends to overestimate the extent to which their beliefs or opinions are typical of those of others |
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| Feel-good, do-good phenomenon |
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| our tendency to help others when we are in a good mood |
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| Foot-in-the-door phenomenon |
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| the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to come back with a larger request |
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| A method to explore the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind |
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| involved with speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgements |
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| the feeling of being upset or annoyed, especially because of inability to change or achieve something. |
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| frustration-aggression principle |
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| the principle that frustration- the blocking of the attempt to achieve a goal- creates anger, which generates aggression |
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| Fundamental Attribution error |
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| the tendency when analysis others behaviour , to overestimate the influence of personal traits and underestimating the effects of the situation |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome |
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Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three stages.
1. Alaram
2. Resistance
3. Exhaustion |
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| the strengthening of a groups preexisting attitudes through group discussions |
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| a mental or emotional state of well-being defined by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. |
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| helps process explicit memories for storage |
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| approach to psychology that emphasizes empathy and stresses the good in human behavior. In politics and social theory, this approach calls for human rights and equality. |
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