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Panic attack

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Period of extreme anxiety and physical symptoms such as heart palpitations, shakiness, diziness, and racing thoughts. Initial attacks are often reported to feel like a heart attack due to the heart palpitations. A medical exam should be conducted to rule out any such condition

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Perception

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The process of organizing and using information that is received through the senses

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Personality

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The stable set of individual characteristics that make us unique

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Permissive (parents)

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Parenting style consisting of very few rules and allowing children to make most decisions and control their own behavior

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Persuasion

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The deliberate attempt to influence the thoughts, feelings, or behaviors of another

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Phobia

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An intense fear for a specific object or situation. Most of us consider ourselves to have phobias, but to be diagnostable, the fear must significantly restrict our way of life.

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Placebo effect

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The phenomenon in research where the subject's beliefs about the outcome can significantly effect the outcome without any other intervention

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Plasticity

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The ability of the brain, especially in our younger years to compensate for dmage

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Pleasure principle

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Freud's theory regarding the id's desire to maximize pleasure and minimize pain in order to achieve immediate gratification

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Positive correlation

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A correlation where as one variable increases the other also increases or as one decreases so does the other

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Positive reinforcement

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Something positive provided after a response in order to increase the probability of that response in the future

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Prejudice

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Negative beliefs, attitudes, or feelings about a person's entire character based on only one characteristic. This belief is often based on faulty information.

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Primary reinforcer

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A reinforcer that meets our basic needs such as food or water

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Projection

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In psychoanalytic theory, the defense mechanism whereby we transfer or project our feelings about one person onto another

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Projective techniques

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A genetic term for the psychological procedures used to measure personality which rely on ambiguous stimuli

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Psychiatrist

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A medical doctor with training in mental illness

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Psychoanalysis

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Developed by Freud, this type of therapy is known for the long term treatment, typically several times per week, where the unresolved issues from the individual's childhood are analyzed and resolved. These issues are considered to be primary unconscious in nature and are kept from the consciousness through a complex defense system.

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Psychodynamic therapy

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A modern adaptation of psychoanalytic therapy which has made sometimes minor and sometimes major changes to Freud's original theories

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Psychology

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The study of emotion, cognition, and behavior, and their interraction

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Psychosis

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Break from reality, usually identified by hallucinations, delusions, and/or disorientation

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Punishment

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The adding of a negative stimulus I'm order to decrease a response