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| study of abnormal behavior |
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| social or environmental setting of a persons behavior |
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| emotional distress or emotional pain |
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| anything that does not allow a person to function within or adapt to the stresses and everyday demands of life |
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| sociocultural perspective |
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| perspective in which abnormal behavior is seen as the product of the learning and shaping of behavior within the context of the family, the social group to which one belongs, and the culture within which the family and social group exists |
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| the need to consider the unique characteristics of the culture in which behavior takes place |
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| disorders found only in particular cultures |
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| any pattern of behavior that causes people significant distress, causes them to harm others, or harm their ability to function in daily life |
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| model of explaining behavior as caused by biological changes in the chemical, structural, or genetic systems of the body |
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| psychologists who study the way people think, remember, and organize information |
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| perspective in which abnormal behavior is seen as the result of the combined and interacting forces of biological, psychological, social, and cultural influences |
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| disorders in which the main symptom is excessive or unrealistic anxiety and fearfulness |
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| anxiety that is unrelated to any realistic, known source |
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| an irrational, persistent fear of an object, situation, or social activity |
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| fear of interacting with others or being in social situations that might lead to a negative evaluation |
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| fear of objects or specific situations |
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| fear of being in small place |
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| fear of being in place or situation from which escape is difficult or impossible |
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| sudden onset of intense panic in which multiple physical symptoms of stress occur, often with feelings that one is dying |
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| disorder in which panic attacks occur frequently enough to cause the person difficulty in adjusting to daily life |
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| panic disorder with agoraphobia |
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| fear of leaving ones familiar surroundings because one might have a panic attack in public |
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| obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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| disorder in which intruding, recurring thoughts of obsessions create anxiety that is relieved by performing a repetitive, ritualistic behavior or mental act |
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| acute stress disorder (ASD) |
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| disorder resulting from exposure to a major stressor, with symptoms of anxiety, dissociation, recurring nightmares, sleep disturbance, problems in concentration, and moments in which people seem to relive the event in dreams and flashbacks for as long as 1 month following the event |
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| post-traumatic stress diorder (PTSD) |
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| disorder resulting from exposure to a major stressor, with symptoms of anxiety, dissociation, nightmares, poor sleep, reliving events, and concentration problems, lasting for more than a month |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| disorder in which a person has feelings of area and impending doom along with physical symptoms of stress, which lasts 6 months or more |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| disorder in which a person has feelings of area and impending doom along with physical symptoms of stress, which lasts 6 months or more |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| disorder in which a person has feelings of area and impending doom along with physical symptoms of stress, which lasts 6 months or more |
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| tendency to interpret situations as far more dangerous, harmful, or important than they actually are |
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| tendency to believe that ones performance must be perfect or the result will be a total failure |
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| tendency to interpet a single negative even as a never-ending pattern of defeat and failure |
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| tendency to give little or no importance to ones successes or positive events and traits |
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| disorders in which mood is severely disturbed |
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| sever depression that comes on suddenly and seems to have no external cause, or is too sever for current circumstances |
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| having the quality of excessive excitement, energy, and elation or irritablity |
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| sever mood swings, between major depressive episodes and manic episodes |
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| seasonal affective disorder (SAD) |
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| a mood disorder caused by the body's reaction to low levels of sunlight in the winter months |
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| disorder in which there is a break in conscious awareness, memory, the sense of identity, or some combination |
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| loss of memory for personal information, either partial or complete |
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| loss of memory for personal information, either partial or complete |
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| traveling away from familiar surroundings with amnesia about the trip and possible amnesia for personal information |
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| dissociative identity disorder |
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| disorder occurring when a person seems to have two or more distinct personalities within one body |
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| depersonalization disorder |
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| dissociative disorder in which individuals feel detached and disconnected from themselves, their bodies, and their surroundings |
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| false beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness |
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| a psychotic disorder in which the primary symptom is one or more delusions |
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| a lack of emotional responsiveness |
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| type of schizo in which behavior is bizarre and childish, and thinking speech and motor actions are very disorder |
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| type of schizo in which the person experiences periods of statulike immobility mixed with occasional bursts of energetic, frantic movement, and talking |
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| type of schizo in which the person suffers from delusions of persecution, grandeur, and jealousy, together with hallucinations |
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| symptoms of schizo that are excesses of behavior or occur in addition to normal behavior, hallucinations delusions and distorted thinking |
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