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| What criterion might be used to determine whether a behavior is abnormal? |
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1. Society
2. Dangerous to themselves or society
3. Does it cause personal distress?
4. Regarded abnormal if there is legal responsibility behind it |
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1. Something that interferes with life
2. Doesn't permit you to reach full potential
3. Experience stress/distress from symptoms
4. Freud said you get it by unresolved sexual/aggressive drives |
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| What is generalized anxiety disorder? |
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Definition
1. Anxiety is higher and greater
2. escalates to the point where it overwhelms someone (sick)
3. They recognize its a panic attack |
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| What is Somataform Disorder? |
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Definition
1. People have vague but persistent physical complaints
2. Psychological problem |
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| What is Conversion Disorder? |
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Definition
1. Neurologically intact but something in psychological
2. Ex: Paralyzed but nothing physically wrong
3. "Converting" psych to physical symptoms |
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| What is Obsessive-compulsive disorder? |
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Definition
1. The need to do something to relieve stress, but is illogical way
2. stress is relieved through the act
3. ex: count everything |
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| What is Dissociative Disorder? |
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Definition
1. Dissociated thought pattern
2. Psychogenic Amnesia (new identity)
3. Multiple Personality Syndrome (trauma->survive through it) |
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Definition
1. Irrational fear of something
2. Anxiety beyond any threat that exists
3. Avoid things that you are afraid of |
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| What is the neurotic paradox? |
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Definition
1. People with self-defeating behaviors, but still clinging to it
2. Don't get help, but still complain |
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Definition
| 1. External stimulus or an event that causes stress to an organism |
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| What is the definition of Psychology? |
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Definition
| The study of proving behavior and mental processes |
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Definition
1. The degree of how something affects something else
2. Does not imply that it is the cause
3. Ex: As this increases, this decreases |
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| What are the various parts of a neuron? What role does the myelin sheath play? |
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Definition
| 2. The main purpose of myelin is to cover neuron cells so that it can conduct action potential more quickly. |
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| What are the various parts of the brain and what role do they play? |
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| What is the difference between a dominant and recessive gene? |
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Definition
| Dominant is physically seen while recessive is a carrier unless you have double recessive. |
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| What does it mean when a person is colorblind? |
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Definition
| Decreased ability to perceive differences between some of the colors that others can distinguish. |
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Definition
1. Frequency= how often
2. Amplitude=brightness
3. Wavelength=Color |
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1. Frequency=Pitch
2. Amplitude=Loudness
3. Timbre= the quality given to a sound by its overtones |
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| What is selective attention? |
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Definition
Being able to zone something out and focus on one thing or many things. (Mom yelling at kids to come home, kids continue game)
2. Ability to zone out a smell or sound which has less significance |
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| What are the stages of sleep? |
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Definition
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| What is the difference between tolerance and dependency? |
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Definition
| Tolerance is what you can handle while dependency is what you need to continue |
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| 1. What are the components of classical and operant conditioning? |
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Definition
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| What are the schedules of reinforcement? |
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Definition
1. Continuous: same thing every time
2. Intermittent: every so often
a. fixed ration, variable ratio, fixed interval, variable interval |
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| What is generalization? discrimination? spontaneous recovery? extinction? |
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Definition
1. Gener: Open to stimuli that are similar
2. Discrimination: Only one stimuli
3. Sponta. Recov: remember stimuli and learned behavior randomly
4. Extinction: lose stimuli and learned behavior after long time of no use |
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| What is long-term memory? What is short-term memory? |
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Definition
1. Long-term: goes through short-term and into long for a great deal of time
2. Short-term: Can hold smaller amount and for shorter period of time unless moved to long term (7+/-2 ideas) |
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| What is proactive interference? What is retroactive interference? |
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Definition
1. Proactive: something new learned is interfering with remembering something that you learned before
2. Something old learned is interfering with something you just learned |
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Definition
| A concept is a generalized idea of a thing or class of things. |
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| What are phonemes and morphemes? |
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Definition
1. Phonemes: smallest unit of sound (letters)put them together and you get word
2. Morphemes: the smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of a language. |
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Definition
| Motivation is the result of something that activates us to move toward some goal |
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| What are the principles of Freud's theory of personality? |
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Definition
| 1. Sexual and Aggressive Drives |
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Definition
| When you try to forget a thought yourself. |
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| What are the principles of Maslow's Theory of Personality? |
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Definition
Our hierarchy of needs.
1. food/water
2. safety
3. love/belonging
4. self esteem
5. self actualization |
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| What are the principles of Carl Roger's Theory of personality? |
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Definition
Unconditional Positive Regard
1. Give people positive regard, they will fix themselves |
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| What are the various objective personality tests? |
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Definition
| Rosharch Inkblot,MMPT-2 (questions), THT (pictures with captions) |
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| What are Piaget's Stages of development and what is the 'Milestone' of each? |
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Definition
1. Sensorimotor: Object Permanence
2. Pre-operational: Semiotic Functioning ->learn ways to communicate
3. Concrete Operations: Attached to reality (solid thinking)
4. Formal Operations: Hypothetico-deductive reasoning: reasoning with things you have no experience with) |
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