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| A fear of going out to public places. |
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| A significant memory loss that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting. See also Anterograde amnesia, Retrograde amnesia. |
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| Eating disorder characterized by intense fear of gaining weight, disturbed body image, refusal to maintain normal weight, and dangerous measures to lose weight. |
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| Loss of memories for events that occur after a head injury. |
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| Antisocial personality disorder |
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| A type of personality disorder marked by impulsive, callous, manipulative, aggressive, and irresponsible behavior that reflects a failure to accept social norms. |
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| A class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety. |
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Autonomic nervous
system (ANS) |
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| The system of nerves that connect to the heart, blood vessels, smooth muscles, and glands. |
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Basing the estimated probability of an event on the ease with which relevant instances come
to mind. |
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| Any overt (observable) response or activity by an organism. |
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| (formerly known as manicdepressive disorder) Mood disorder marked by the experience of both depressed and manic periods. |
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| Eating disorder characterized by habitually engaging in out-of-control overeating followed by unhealthy compensatory efforts, such as self-induced vomiting, fasting, abuse of laxatives and diuretics, and excessive exercise. |
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Unrealistically pessimistic appraisals of stress that exaggerate the magnitude of one's
problems. |
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A type of schizophrenia marked by striking motor disturbances, ranging from muscular rigidity
to random motor activity. |
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| An intent to maintain a relationship in spite of the difficulties and costs that may arise. |
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| The coexistence of two or more disorders. |
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| The percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives that exhibit the same disorder. |
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| A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning. |
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| Conditioned Stimulus (CS) |
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Definition
A previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a
conditioned response. |
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Definition
| An error that occurs when people estimate that the odds of two uncertain events happening together are greater than the odds of either event happening alone. |
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A somatoform disorder characterized by a significant loss of physical function (with no
apparent organic basis), usually in a single organ system. |
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Definition
| Abnormal syndromes found only in a few cultural groups. |
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| Exhibiting chronic but relatively mild symptoms of bipolar disturbance. |
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| False beliefs that are maintained even though they are clearly out of touch with reality. |
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| Distinguishing one illness from another. |
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| Disorganized schizophrenia |
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| A type of schizophrenia in which particularly severe deterioration of adaptive behavior is seen. |
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| A sudden loss of memory for important personal information that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting. |
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A class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or
memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity. |
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Definition
| A disorder in which people lose their memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity. |
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| Dissociative identity disorder (DID) |
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Definition
| A type of dissociative disorder characterized by the coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete, and usually very different, personalities. Also called multiple-personality disorder. |
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Definition
| A chronic depression that is insufficient in severity to merit diagnosis of a major depressive episode. |
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| Severe disturbances in eating behavior characterized by preoccupation with weight concerns and unhealthy efforts to control weight. |
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| The study of the distribution of mental or physical disorders in a population. |
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| The apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. |
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| Generalized anxiety disorder |
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Definition
| A psychological disorder marked by a chronic, high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat. |
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Definition
| The process of determining the location and chemical sequence of specific genes on specific chromosomes. |
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| Sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of a real, external stimulus, or gross distortions of perceptual input. |
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| The tendency to mold one's interpretation of the past to fit how events actually turned out. |
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| A somatoform disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation with health concerns and incessant worry about developing physical illnesses. |
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| A legal status indicating that a person cannot be held responsible for his or her actions because of mental illness. |
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| A civil proceeding in which people are hospitalized in psychiatric facilities against their will. |
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| Passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events. |
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Definition
Mood disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of
interest in previous sources of pleasure |
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Term
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Definition
| The view that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease. |
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Term
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Definition
| A class of disorders marked by emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical, perceptual, social, and thought processes. |
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Multiple-personality
disorder |
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Definition
| See Dissociative identity disorder. |
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| The strengthening of a response because it is followed by the removal of an aversive (unpleasant) stimulus. |
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| Schizophrenic symptoms that involve behavioral deficits, such as flattened emotions, social withdrawal, apathy, impaired attention, and poverty of speech. |
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| Obsessive- compulsive disorder (OCD) |
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Definition
| A type of anxiety disorder marked by persistent, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and urges to engage in senseless rituals (compulsions). |
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Definition
| A type of anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly. |
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| A type of schizophrenia that is dominated by delusions of persecution. |
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Definition
A class of psychological disorders marked by extreme, inflexible personality traits that cause
subjective distress or impaired social and occupational functioning. |
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| Irrational fears of specific objects or situations. |
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| A type of anxiety disorder marked by a persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger. |
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| Schizophrenic symptoms that involve behavioral excesses or peculiarities, such as hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, and wild flights of ideas. |
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Definition
| A species-specific predisposition to be conditioned in certain ways and not others. |
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| The percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder during a specified time period. |
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| A forecast about the probable course of an illness. |
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Definition
Physical ailments with a genuine organic basis that are caused in part by psychological
factors, especially emotional distress. |
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| Representativeness heuristic |
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Definition
| Basing the estimated probability of an event on how similar it is to the typical prototype of that event. |
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Definition
| Loss of memories for events that occurred prior to a head injury. |
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Definition
| A class of psychological disorders marked by disturbances in thought that spill over to affect perceptual, social, and emotional processes. |
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| A type of somatoform disorder marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psychological in origin. |
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Definition
A class of psychological disorders involving physical ailments with no authentic organic basis
that are due to psychological factors |
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Definition
| Any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one's well-being and that thereby tax one's coping abilities. |
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Unconditioned
response (UCR) |
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Definition
| An unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning. |
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Unconditioned
stimulus (UCS) |
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Definition
| A stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. |
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Undifferentiated
schizophrenia |
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Definition
| A type of schizophrenia marked by idiosyncratic mixtures of schizophrenic symptoms. |
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