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Psychological Disorder |
Refers to a Psychological dysfunction that is marked with distress and impairment which are atypical or not culturally expected |
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Psychological Dysfunction |
Breakdown in cognitive, emotional and behavioral functioning |
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Distress or impairment |
D- Extremely upset I- Socially incapable |
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Psychopathology |
The scientific study of Psychological disorders |
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Scientist Practitioner |
Mental health professionals take a scientific approach to their clinical work |
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Consumer of science |
Enhancing the practice |
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Evaluator of science |
Determining the effectiveness of the practice |
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Creator of science |
Conducting research that leads to new procedures useful in practice |
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Clinical Description |
Unique combination of thoughts, feeling, behavior and emotion that make up a certain disorders |
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Clinical |
Both type of problems or disorders that you would find in a hospital or clinic |
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Present |
Shorthand way of indicating why a person came to the clinic |
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Prevalence |
How many in the population has a disorders |
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Incidence |
How many cases in a period or year does a certain disorders occurred |
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Course |
Individual pattern |
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Chronic |
Lasts long time, sometimes a lifetime |
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Episodic course |
Individual is likely to recover within a few months only to suffer reoccurrence of a disorder at a later time |
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Time-limited course |
Disorders will improve without treatment in a relatively short period |
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Acute Onset |
Begins suddenly |
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Insidious Onset |
Develop gradually over an extended period |
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Prognosis |
The anticipated course of a disorder |
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Developmental Psychology |
Study of behavior over time |
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Developmental Psychopathology |
Study of change in abnormal behavior over time |
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Life Span Developmental Psychopathology |
Study of abnormal behavior across the entire life span |
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Etiology |
The study of origins |
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Treatment |
Cure for a disorder |
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Linear or one dimensional model |
Attempts to trace the origins of behavior to a single cause |
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Developmental Critical Period |
When we are more or less reactive to a given situation or influence than at other times |
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Vasovagal Syncope |
Common cause of fainting in blood injection injury |
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Sinoaortic baroreflex |
Compensated for sudden increase in blood pressure by lowering it |
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Dominant Gene |
Strongly influences a particular trait |
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Recessive gene |
Must be paired with another recessive trait to become dominant |
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Polygenic |
Some traits that are influence by many genes (ex: I etc) |
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Genome |
A complete set of genes |
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Quantitative Genetics |
Sums up all the tiny effects across many genes without telling us which genes are responsible for which effects |
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Molecular genetics |
Examining the actual structure of a gene |
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Neurotransmitters |
Carry messages from one neuron to another |
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Antagonist |
Decrease or blocks the neurotransmitters |
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Inverse Agonists |
Produce effects opposite to those produce by the neurotransmitters |
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Monoamine Group neurotransmitters |
Serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine |
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Amino Acid neurotransmitters |
Gamma aminobutyric Acid, Glutamate |
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Glutamate |
An excitatory neurotransmitters that turn on many different neurons leading to action |
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GABA |
An inhibitory (regulates transmission of information) neurotransmitters |
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Serotonin (5HT) |
Regulates our behavior, moods and thought processes |
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Panic Control Treatment |
Exposing patients with panic disorders to the cluster of physical sensation that reminds them of their panic attacks |
