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The study of continuity and change across the lifespan
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Developmental Psychology
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The emergence if the ability to understand the world
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Cognitive Development
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Theories about or models of the way the world works
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Schemas
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The process by which infants revise their schemas in light of new information
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Accommodations
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The idea that human behavior is guided by mental representations which gives rise to the realization that the world is not always the way it looks and that people see it differently
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Theory of Mind
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The emotional bond that forms between newborns and their primary caregivers
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Attachment
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A classification system that describes the features used to diagnose each recognized mental disorder and indicates how the disorder can be distinguished from other similar problems
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DSM-IV-TR
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The co-occurrence of two or more disorders in a single individual
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Comordbidity
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Suggests that a person might be predisposed for a mental disorder that remains unexpressed until triggered by stress
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Diathesis-stress Model
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The class of mental disorders in which anxiety is the predominant feature
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Anxiety Disorder
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Mental disorders that have mood disturbance as their predominant feature
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Mood Disorder
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The idea that individuals who are prone to depression automatically attribute negative experiences to causes that are internal, stable, and global
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Helplessness Theory
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an interaction between a therapist and someone suffering from psychological problem with the goal of providing support or relief from the problem
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Psychotherapy
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treatment that draws on techniques from different forms of therapy depending on the client and the problem
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Eclectic Psychotherapy
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a type of therapy that assumes that disordered behavior is learned and that symptom relief is achieved through changing overt maladaptive behaviors into more constructive behaviors
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Behavioral Therapy
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An approach to treatment that involves confronting an emotion-arousing stimulus directly and repeatedly ultimately leading to decrease in the emotional response
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Exposure Therapy
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A form of psychotherapy that involves helping a client identify and correct in distorted thinking about self others or the world
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Cognitive Therapy
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A blend of cognitive and behavioral therapeutic strategies
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Therapy in which multiple participants(who often do not know one another at the outset) work on their individual problems in a group atmosphere
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Group Therapy
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