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Emotion
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a response of the whole physiological arousal, expressive behaviors and conscious experience
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James Lange Theory
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the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arrousing stimuli
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Cannon Bard Theory
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the theory that an emotion-arrousing stimulus situltaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion
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two factory theory
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schachter's theory that to experience emotion one must be physically arroused and cognitively label the arrousal
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Catharsis
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emotional release. In psyc the catharsis hypothesis maintains that releasing aggressive energu through action or fantasy relieves aggressive urges
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feel good, do good phenomenon
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people's tendency be helpful when already in a good mood
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subjective well being
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self percieved happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well being to evaluate people's quality of life
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relavitve deprivation
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the perception that one is worse off relative to rhoes with whom one compares ones self
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stress
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the process by which we percieve and respond to certain events called stressors that we appraise as threatening or challenging
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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- alarm resistance exhaustion
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health psyc
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a subfield of psyc that provides psyc contribution to behavioral medicine
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coronary heart disease
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the clogging of the vessles that nourish the heart muscle leading cause of death in many developed countries
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Type A
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Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger prone people
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Type B
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term for easy going and relaxed people
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Psycophysiological illness
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literally mind body illness; any stress related mind physical illness such as hypertension and headaches
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lymphocytes
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the 2 types of white blood cells that are in the immune system
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arerobic exercise
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sustained exercise that increses heart lung fitness; also may aleviate depression and anxiety
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biofeed back
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a system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle psysiological state such as blood pressure or muscle tension
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complementary and alternative medicine
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unproven health care treatments not taught widely in medical schools, not used in hospitals, and not usually reimbursed by insurance companys
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psycological disorders
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a harmful dysfunction in which behavior is judged to be atypical, disturbing maladaptive, and unjustifyable
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Medical Model
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the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed trated and in most cases cured
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biopyschosocial perspective
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a contemporary perspective which assumes that biological, psychological, and sociolocultural factors combine and interact to produce psychologcal disorders
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DSM-IV
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a system for classifying psycological disorders
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anxiety disorders
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psycological disorders characterized by distressing persistant anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety
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generalized anxiety disorders
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an anxiety disorders in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arrousal
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panic disorder
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an anxiety disorder marked by minutes long episode if intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain chocking and other frightning sensations
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phobia
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an anxiety disorder marked by a persistant irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation
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OCD
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an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts or actions
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dissociative disorders
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disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories thoughts and feelings
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Dissoviative identity disorders
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a rare disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct alternating personalitys (aka multipul personality disorder)
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personality disorders
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characerized by inflexable and induring behavioral patterns that impare social functioning
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antisocial personality disorder
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a personality disorder in which the person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrong doing even towards friends and family members
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Mood Disorders
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characterized by emotional extremes.
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Major Depressive disorders
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a mood disorder in which a person for no apparent reason experiences two or more weeks of depressed moods feelings of worthlessness and fininished interest or pleasure in most activities
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Manic Episode
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a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive wildly optimistic state
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bipolar disorder
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a mood disorder in which the person alternates b/tw the hopelessness and over excited state of mania
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Schizo
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a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganixed and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions
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delusions
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false beliefs often of persecution or grandeur that may accompany psychotic disorders
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psycotherapy
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an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psycological difficulties
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eclectic approach
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an approach to psycotherapy that depending on the cloents problems uses techniques from various forms of therapy
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psychoanalysis
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the patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferances releases previously repressed feelings allowing the patient to gain self insite
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resistance
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the blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material
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interpretation
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the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings resistances and other significant behaviors in order to premote insite
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transference
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the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
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client centered therapy
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a humanistic therapy in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic enviorment to facilitate clients growth
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active listening
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empathetic listening in which the listener echoes restates and clarifies
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behavior therapy
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therapy that applies learning principals to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
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counterconditioning
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a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors
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exposure therapy
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behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to things they fear and avoid
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systematic desensitization
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a type of counterconditioning that associated a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli
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aversive conditioning
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associates an unpleasant state with unwanted behavior
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token economy
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an operant conditioning procedure that rewards desired behavior
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cognative therapy
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therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting
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cognative-behavioral therapy
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a popular integrated therapy that combines cognative therapy with behavior therapy
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family therapy
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treats families as systems, attempts to guide family members towards positive relationships and improved communications
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psychopharmacology
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the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
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lithium
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a chemical that provides an effective drug therapy for the mood swings of bipolar disorders
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electroconvulsive therapy
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a biomedical therapy for serverly depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
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psychosurgery
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surgery that removes of destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
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lobotomy
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a now rare procedure once used to calm uncontrolably emotional patients. It cut nerves that connect the frontal lobes
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