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neurotic disorder
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usually distressing but allows one to think rationally and function socially
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generalized anxiety disorder
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continually tense, apprehensive, and in a stae of autonomic nervous sytem arousal
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delusions
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false beliefs that may accompany psychotic disorders
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dissociative disorders
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conscious awareness becomes separated from memories, thoughts and feelings
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oedipus complex
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sexual desire for mother and hatred for father. boys feel lurking fear of punishment perhaps by castration from their father, penis envy
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personal control
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our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless
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reciprocal determinism
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the interacting influences between personality and environmental factors
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psychotic disorder
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one loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions
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phobia
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persistent irrational fear and avoidance of a specific situation
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thematic apperception test (tat)
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a test to get people to express their inner feelings
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anal stage
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18-36 months
sphincter muscle and bladder, toilet training |
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repression
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banishes arousing thoughts from consciousness
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learned helplessness
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hoplessness a human learns when unable to avoid repeated events
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projective test
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personality test designed to trigger projection of inner dynamics
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sublimination
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people channel their unacceptable impulses into social activities
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latency stage
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6-11 years
little boys and girls think eachother are icky |
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oral stage
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0-18 months
infants sexula pleasure focuses on sucking, biting and chewing |
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super ego
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ideal of how to behave
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regression
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a defense mechanism where a person faced with anxiety retreats to an infantile stage
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james lange theory
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we are sad because we cry, behavior comes first and then we cry
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fixation
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at any point in the oral, anal or phallic stage, strong conflict can lock the person's pleasure seeking energies in that stage
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individualism
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defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications
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collectivism
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priority to the goals of one's group and defining one's identity accordingly
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personality
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behavior patterns that distinguish us from one another.
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self-serving bias
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a readiness to perciever onesself favorably
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non-verbal communications
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communication is through the body's silent language
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genital stage
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happens during puberty, boys and girls feel sexual feelings for eachother
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dissociative identity disorder
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rare disorder in which a person has two or more personalities. a.k.a. multiple personality disorder
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body language
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hand guestures differ across cultures and facial expressions stay the same
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reaction formula
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the ego unconsciously switches unacceptible impulses into their opposites.
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DSM-IV
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a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders
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minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI)
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most used of all personality tests. originally developed to identify emotional disorders.
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unconditional positive regard
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an attitude of total acceptance toward another person
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culture and emotional expression
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facial expressions like happiness and fear are worldwide
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self-concept
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all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves in answer to the question "who am i?"
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subjective well-being
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self-perceived satisfaction in life used along with measures of objective well-being
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rorschach inkblot test
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seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
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free association
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frued told patients to relax and say whatever comes to mind, he learns from the response something from the unconscious mind
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self-actualization
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the motivation to fullfill one's potential
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trait
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a characteristic pattern of behavior to feel and act by self and peer reports
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arousal and performance
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performance peaks at lower levels of arousal for diff. tasks, higher levels for easy or well learned tasks
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anxiety disorder
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distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety
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schizophrenia
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delusional thinking and inappropriate emotions and actions
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emotional arousal
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elated excitement and panicky fear involve similar physiological arousal
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identification
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process by which according to freud, children incorporate their parents values into their developing personalities
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electra complex
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3-6 years
little girls seek sexual gratification from their fathers |
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rationalization
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offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real threatening reasons for one's actions
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cannon bard
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arousal and emotional experience occur together
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positive psychology
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discover and promote conditions that enable individuals and communities to thrive
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manifest content
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part of a dream you remember
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right side of brain
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negative, disgust
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mood disorders
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emotional extremes
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displacement
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shifts sexual and agressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person
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schactor's factor
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experience of emotion grows from our awareness of our body's arousal
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effects of facials
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expressions amplify the felt emotion and signal the body to react accordingly
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empirically derived test
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a test eveloped by testing a pool of items and then electing those that discriminate between groups
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ID
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operates on the pleasure principle, if not constrained by reality it seeks immediate gratification
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catharsis
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emotional release, build up anger and explode then feel better but only temporarily
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manic episode
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hyperactive, wild optimistic state
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parasympathetic division
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calming
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bio-pyscho social perspective
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assuming biological, psychological and sociocultural factors combine and interact to produce psychological disorders
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anti-social personality disorder
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person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family. may be clever or a ruthless con-artist
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defense mechanisms
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help deal with conflict that comes with anxiety
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phallic stage
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3-6 years
pleasure zone is genitals, boys seek sexual gratification from their mothers |
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bipolar disorder
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mood disorder where a person alternates between depression and mania
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personality inventory
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a questionnaire in which people respond to items designed to guage a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits.
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major depressive disorder
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for no apparent reason a person experiences two or more weeks of depressed moods in most activities
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anally retentive
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excessivly neat
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emotions
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a mix of psychological activation, expressive behaviors and conscious experience
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feel good do good phenomenon
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when you feel happy you are more likely to help others
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collective unconscious
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carl jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history
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sympathetic division
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arousing, your body mobilizes for action
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panic disorder
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intense dread experiencing terror,chest pain, or choking.
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personality disorders
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inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning
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