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30 Cards in this Set
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Biological Perspectives
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Abnormal psychology caused by biological imbalances; thus have a medical/biological cure
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Dopamine
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Happy neurotransmitter
Lack=Parkinson's disease Excess=schizophrenia (hallucinations) |
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Norepinephrine
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Mood/eating disorders
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Serotonin
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anxiety, insomnia, (mood disorders with low levels).
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Acetocholine
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Alzheimer, memory
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Freud Pscyhodynamic Model
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Id/Ego/Superego
Defense mechanisms abnormal psychology caused by conflicts in childhood |
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Repression
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Keeping down memories
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Displacement
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Putting anger somewhere else
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Denial
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refusing to accept and deal with reality
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Reaction Formation
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Overcompensating to one extreme
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Rationalization
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justification
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Projection
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Accusing or putting feelings onto someone else as though to seem as they feel that way and not themselves
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Sublimination
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Distracting one's self
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Freud's Psychosexual
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Oral (birth -2): oral fixation, sarcastic
Anal (2-3): anal retentive, lazfaire Phallic (3-6): gender identity Latency (6-12): sexuality irrelev. Genital (12+) |
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Learning Theories
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- Classical Condition (phobias from seeing)
-Operant Condition (reward/punishment OCD) |
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Humanistic Model
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Unconditional positive regard, not enough can cause anxiety and discrepency btw how we see ourself and how others see us
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Bio-Psychosocial Perspective
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Diatheses Stress Model; interaction approach; predispositions to disorders coupled with environmental stressors
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Social Cultural Perspectives
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Poverty, racism, unemployment. no ethnic differences between AA's while in same socioeconomic satus is considered
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Medulla
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an area of hindbrain involved in regulation of heartbeat and respiration
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Pons
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Struture in the hindbrain involved in respiration
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Cerebellum
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Structure in hindbrain involved in coordination and balance
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Reticular Activation System
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Brain Struture involved in processes of attention, sleep, and arousal
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Thalamus
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Structure in forebrain involved in relaying snesory info to cortex and in processes related to sleep and attention
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Limbic System
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group of forebrain structures involved in learning memory and basic drives
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Basal Ganglia
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Neurons located between thalamus and cerebrum involved in coordinating motor processes
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Cerebrum
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Large mass of forebrain consisting of two cerebral hemispheres
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Cerebral Cortex
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wrinkled surface area of the cerebrum responsible for precessing sensory stimuli and controlling higher mental functions such as thinking and use of language
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Somatic nervous system
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division of peripheral nervous system that realys info from sense organs to brain and transmits messages from the brain to skeletal muscles
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Autonomic Nervous System
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division of peripheral nervous system that regulates activities of the glands and involuntary functions
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Sympathetic Nervous System
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Pertaining to the division of autonomic nervous system whose activity leads to heightened states of arousal
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