Psychology Vocab Chapter 13 & 14

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ADHD

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Attention Deficit Hyper Activity Disorder, makes it incredibly hard to stay organized, focused, make plans, or think before acting

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Medical Model

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The view that abnormal behavior is the result of physical problems and should be treated medically

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Phobia

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an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation

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Hypochondriasis

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the preoccupation with the idea that one has a serious disease or the fear of having a serious disease. The misinterpretation of one or more bodily signs of symptoms.

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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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Bipolar disorder

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Characterized by severe mood shifts or a mix of depression, anxiety, and high-energy delusional phases known as manic episodes

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Delusions

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a belief that is clearly false and that indicates an abnormality in the affected person's content of thought. False belief is not accounted for by the person's cultural or religious background or his or her level of intelligence.

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Antisocial personality disorder

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Chronic mental condition in which a person's ways of thinking, perceiving situations and relating to others are dysfunctional- and destructive.

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Eclectic approach

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An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy

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Resistance

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In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety- laden material

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Transference

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In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)

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Active listening

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empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy

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Systematic desensitization

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A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias

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Exposure therapies

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behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people to things they fear and avoid.

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Token economy

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an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats

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Family Therapy

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therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members

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Biomedical therapy

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prescribed medication s or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology

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Psychopharmacology

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the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

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ECT: Electroconvulsive therapy

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A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

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Lobotomy

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A psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain