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| the culturally defined period between childhood and adulthood |
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| the use of physical punishment or coercion to enforce child discipline |
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| withholding affection to enforce child discipline |
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| the effects that naturally tend to follow a particular behavior |
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| reasonable consequences that are defined by parents |
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| an institutionalized tendency to discriminate on the basis of age |
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| mental awareness of sensations, perceptions, memories & feelings |
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| difficulty in getting to sleep or staying asleep |
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| during sleep, breathing stops for 20 seconds or more until the person wakes up a little, gulps in air, or settles back in to sleep; can be repeated hundreds of times per night |
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| sleep walking; occurs during NREM sleep |
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| a state of panic during NREM sleep |
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| sudden, irresistable, daytime sleep attacks that may last anywhere from a few minutes to a half hour |
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| mental exercise attending to a single object or thought |
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| mental exercise based on widening attention to become aware of everything experienced at a given moment |
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| a susbstance capable of altering attention, memory, judgement, time sense, self-control, mood or perception |
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| a reduction in the body's response to a drug |
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| physical illness and discomfort following the withdrawal of a drug |
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| Most frequently used psychoactive drug |
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| a combined effect of two drugs that exceeds the addition of one drug's affects to the other |
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| in the treatment for drugs or alcohols, the withdrawl of the patient from the drugs or alcohol |
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| learning based on the consequences of responding (instrumental learning) |
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| a form of learning in which reflex responses are associated with new stimuli |
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| learning acheived by watching & imitating the actins of another or noting the consequences of those actions |
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| therapy directred at changing the maladaptive thoughts, beliefs and feelings that underlie emotional and behavioral problems |
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