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31 Cards in this Set
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Generalized Anxiety
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The experience of long term, persistent anxiety and worry.
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Phobic Disorders
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Intense irrational fears of specific objects or situations.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsession Compulsion |
Disease characterized by obsessions and compulsions
A persistent unwanted thought or idea that keeps reoccurring. An irresistible urge to carry out some act that seems strange or unreasonable. |
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Schizophrenia
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A class of disorders in which severe distortion of reality occurs.
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DID
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A disorder in which a person displays 2 or more distinct personalities.
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DSM IV
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A description of behaviors.
To diagnose abnormal disorders. |
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Problems with Freud's psychoanalysis
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Time consuming
Expensive Does treatment actually work? Controversial techniques |
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The Rosenhan study
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Conducted a fake study where he admitted 8 patients to an institution who were "hearing voices"
psych disabilities are not always clear. |
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Hypnosis
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A trance like state of heightened susceptibility to the suggestions of others.
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Mood Disorder
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An emotional disturbance that is strong enough to intrude on everyday living.
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Somatoform Disorder
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Psychological difficulties that take on actual physical form, but there is no medical cause.
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Rational Emotive Therapy
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Attempts to restructure a person's belief system into a more realistic, logical and rational set of views by challenging the irrational behavior.
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The Festinger study
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forbidden toy experiment
cognitive dissonance |
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Stanley Milgrim Study
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Obedience and following authority
majority of participants would shock up the dangerous level |
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Philip Zimbardo Study
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mock prison test where students took on roles of both prisoners and guards.
study lost control and people became emotionally disturbed |
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Solomon Asch
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line test, conformity
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Stages of Sleep
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Stage 1: rapid low amp brain waves
Stage 2: slow, reg brain patterns, spiking spindles Stage 3: Higher peaks, lower valleys of waves Stage 4: slower more reg least responsive to outside stimuli- deep sleep REM: rapid eye movement and dreaming... body is paralyzed |
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When do night terrors occur?
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during stages 4/5 happens in children.
can be extremely violent but have no memory when they wake. |
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Don't do this____ when you deal with sleep problems.
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avoid caffeine and sleeping pills
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Psychoactive Drugs
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INFLUENCE EMOTIONS
Stimulants: caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, meths depressants: alcohol barbs: rufenoyl narcotics: morphine, heroin hallucinogens: thc, mdma, acid |
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Cattell Personality Test
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factor analysis
16 traits represent basic dimensions of personality |
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The big five
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openness
conscientiousness extroversion agreeableness neuroticism |
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Subjective well being
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people's evaluations of their own lives in terms of thoughts and emotions.
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Freud's stages of personality
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oral: oral gratification-sucking, eating
anal: anal gratification- expelling wastes phallic: interest with genitals. oedipal conflict latency: sexual concerns are unimportant genital: reemergence of sexual interests, est mature relationships |
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Circadian rhythms and biological clocks
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occur regularly on a 24 hour cycle
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Misconceptions of hypnosis
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can only be hypnotized if you really want to
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Conversion Disorder
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actual physical disturbance
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Dissociative Amnesia
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repress memories
selective memory loss |
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Dissociative Fugue
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people with amnesia take a sudden impulsive trip and sometimes assume a new identity
after some time, they suddenly remember who they really are EXTREMELY RARE |
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Major Depression
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mood
severe form of depression that interferes with concentration mania- extended state of wild elation bipolar- periods of altering mania and depression. can occur over a few days or up to a few years |
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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difficulty developing a secure sense of self
tend to rely on relationships with others to define their identity |
