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46 Cards in this Set
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Psychological Disorder
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observations of abnormal behavior
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Distress
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way to diagnose PD by observing personal distress
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Dysfunction
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adaptive behavior is impaired
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Deviant
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behavior does not meet what society finds acceptable
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How do professionals classify disorders
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The DSM (the diagnostic and statistical manual) provides common terms and language
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Criticism of DSM
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creates preconceptions and bias toward present behavior
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Major Depressive Disorder
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two or more weeks of feeling worthless and is uninterested and takes little pleasure inctivities
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Bipolar Disorder
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episodes of depression, mania, hyperactivity, and extream optimism
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Mania
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an excessive intense and extream enthusiasm interest or desire
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Biological explanations for disorders / depression
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Genetic predispositions and abnormalities in the brain structure and function as well as the neuro transmission system
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Social Cognitive Perspective
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examines the influences of cyclical self doubting, learned helplessness, negative attributions, and learned feedback.
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Psychotherapy
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psychological intervention to help people resolve emotional, behaviors, and interpersonal problems
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Biomedical Therapy
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the use of meds or med procedures
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Eclectic
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blending treatment methods to meet clients problem
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Operant conditioning
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positive or negative feedback to change behavior
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Aversive Conditioning
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conditioning to avoid a negative stimulus
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Becks therapy for depression
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thoughts like behavior can be conditioned and changed
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Reuptake inhibition
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increases neural transmission
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Frontal Lobe
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controls skills, mood and ability to think
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parietal lobe
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senses and muscular movement
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temporal lobe
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sound and memory
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Evolutionary Psychology
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human adaptation of the mind through evolution. Disliked because its not provable and very vauge
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Sensorimotor Stage
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birth - 2 years. gains a sense of the world through senses and motor skills
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Preoperational stage
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2-7 children cannot preform logic mental functioning but can think symbolicly assigning roles to people and objects
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Concrete operational stage
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7-11 logical and concrete thinking
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Formal operational
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11+ abstract thought and hypothetical thinking
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Top Down Processing
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start big work down to small
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Classical Conditioning
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associating a un condition stimulation with a neutral stimulus to receive the uncondition response
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US, UR, NS, CS, CR
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Us: unconditioned stim. Dog food
Ur: unconditioned response. Watering mouth for dog food NS: neutral stimulus. Bell CS: conditioned stim. Bell CR: conditioned response: watering mouth for bell |
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Operant conditioning
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positive or negative reinforcement to change behavior
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Punishment / Reinforcement
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PP: adding something undesirable
NP: taking away something desirable PR: praise NR: scolding |
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Explicit memory versus Implicit
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Explicit we try to remember implicit we don't.
explicit: hippocampus and perirhinal cortex implicit: neocortex and striatum |
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babbling
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3 to 9 months
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single word
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10 months
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two word
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18 months
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multi word
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age 2
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James Lange Theory
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physical arousal first than we interpret than comes emotion
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Cannon Theory
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Arousal and emotions happen at the same time
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Schachter Singer Theory
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Physical arousal leads to realization which leads to emotion
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Lazarus Theory
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a thought comes before emotion and arousal
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Facial Feedback Theory
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emotion is changes in facial muscles
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Big 5 Traits of Personality
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stability, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, convention
say everyone open all cars |
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Cognitive Dissonance
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stress by someone who receives information that contradicts a heals belief
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Social loafing
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the more people contributing the less effort put in
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Social Facilitation
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well known tasks are preformed better around others
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Deindiviuduation
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a loss of self awareness and restraint in group situations that foster arousal and anonimity
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