Definition: Unshakable but false beliefs that are often bizarre.

Concept: (A person believe they are being controlled by aliens.)

Definition: Mental images in any sensory modality so vivid that they seem real.

Concept: (hearing voices when no one is speaking)

1.) Genes

2.) Neurotransmitters malfunction

3.) Low activity in left frontal lobe.

1.) Serotonin

2.) Norepinephrine

3.) Dopamine

4.) Epinephrine

1.) Panic

2.) Phobias

3.) Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)

4.) Posttraumatic Stress (PSD)

1.) Persistent rexperiencing a traumatic event.

2.) Persistent avoidance of anything associated with the trauma or emotional numbing.

3.) Heightened arousal causing someone to startle easy.

Definition: A disorder with symptoms of psychosis that profoundly alter the patient's affect, behavior and thoughts.

Concept: (A person hearing a voice telling them to kill themselves)

1.) Flat affect "poverty of emotion"

2.) Alogia or "poverty of speech"

3.) Avolition "poverty of goal-direction"

1.) Delusions

2.) Hallucinations

3.) Disorganized behavior

4.) Disorganized speech

1.) Parannoid

2.) Disorganized

3.) Catatonic

4.) Undifferentiated

1.) Antisocial

2.) Borderline

3.) Narcissistic

4.) Historic

5.) Avoidant

1.) Psychoanalytic

2.) Psychodynamic

1.) Free association "patient say whatever comes to mind"

2.) Dream analysis "analyze patients dreams"

3.) Interpretation " deciphering patient's words and behaviors"

4.) Resistance "patient reluctant to cooperate with therapist"

5.) Trasnference "patient relates therapist with someone important"

Definition: Therapy that is designed to help clients think realistically and rationally to reinterpret events that otherwise lead to distressing thoughts, feeligns and behaviors.

Concept: (therapists focuses on a patients thoughts, one thought would lead to another, contributing to the experience of anxiety and depression)

Creator: Albert Ellis

Concept: Encourages patients to engage in rational, logical thinking and assumes that distressing feelings are caused by faulty beliefes or illogical thoughts.

Type: Cognative therapy

Cuts dopamine and serotonin available in the brain that easily lets neural signals cross synapses

1.) Lithium

2.) Depakote

3.) Tagretol

4.) Lamictal

Definition: Treatment in which an electric current induces a controlled brain seizure.

Used for: Depression, manic bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

Study: Study that shows how easily competition can lead to prejudice.

Result: Two groups competed for valued prizes . Conflict between two groups quickly escalated into prjudice an discrimination.

Study: To see how people can be corrupted and obidient by an authority figure.

Result: 65% of the people gave the highest shocks.