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Psych 101
Chapters 12,13, 14
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
04/21/2011

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coronary heart disease
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from stress that leads to elevated heart pressure, clogging the vessels, linked to pessimism
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*Personality Types
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Type A, B, D
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*Type A personality
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competitive, hard driving, impatient, verbally aggressive
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*Type B
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easygoing relaxed people
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*Type D
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similar to type A, competitive, intense, anger prone,
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psychophysiological illness
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ny stress related illness such as hypertension and some headaches
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psychoneuroimmunology
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where health effects of physiological, neural and endocrine processes on immune system are studied
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stress and sickness
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linked to colds and accelerates HIV to AIDS
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*stress doesn't create cancer cells
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stress could progress cancer, avoiding stress and hopeful attitude doesn't cure cancer
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stress linked to --
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heart disease, immune supression, autonomic nervous system effects(headache, hypertension)
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promoting health
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begins by preventing illness
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problem-focused coping
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reducing stress by changing events that cause stress or by changing how we react to stress
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emotion-focused coping
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when we can't change a stressfuk situation, and we respond by attending to our own emotional needs
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learned helplessness
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thinking we have no control over stress we create more health problems, be positive, social support
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biofeedback
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measures physiological responses from electronical device
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spirituality and faith communities
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regular religious attendance longer lifespan
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Freud studied
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unconcious nervous disorders, unconscious mind, and free diss'n
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unconscious mind
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resevoir of unacceptable thoughts, wishes,memories
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free association
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Freud asked patients whatever comes to mind in order to tap into unconscious mind
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dream analysis
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manifest and latent contents
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psychoanalysis
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chain of thoughts leads to embarassing unsconscious memories and makes patients feel better to get off chest
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*model of mind
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is like and iceberg hidden and below is the unconscious mind. preconscious mind hols temporary memories
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*id
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satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives, operating on pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification
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*ego
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functions as executive and mediates demand btw id and superego
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*superego
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provides standards for judgment(conscience) and for future aspirations
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psychosexual stages
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Frued believed personality formed in first few years of life in many stages oral 0-18 months, anal 18-36 mths, 3-6 yrs phallic,6 to puberty latency, puberty genital
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Identification
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boys want to be just like their dad and vice versa friend says rival feelings make them want to be like dad to get to mom
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Oedipus
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boy's desire for his mother, jealousy and hated for rival father opposite is Electra complex
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defense mechanisms
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repression, regression, reaction formation, progression, rationalization, displacement
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repression
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banishes anxiety arousing thoughts feelings and memories from consciousness
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regression
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anxiety state and act like a kid
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rxn formation
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express feelings of purity when they have anxiety from unconscious feelings of sex
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projection
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lie that someone else has your feelings
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ratiionalization
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justify reasons for thoughts
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displacements
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take anger out on wrong person
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Adler
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inferiority complex of children, trying to grow and be better but feel inferior to parents
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Horney
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believed in social aspects of childhood growth and development. she said women have weak superego b/c "penis envy"
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Jung
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collective unconscious, each new generation is born with preset unconscious ideas archetypes in collective unconscious
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projective tests
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for personality, ambiguous pictures, Rorshach Ink Blot test
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*entries argue projective tests lack reliability and validity
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1) even trained raters come up with different results
2)misdiagnose normal individuals as pathological
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personality
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develops through lifespan, verbal slips cognitive of verbal choices supressed sexuality leads to psychological disorders
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Frued and personality
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says repression happens with negative events, proven not true
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Maslow and Rogers
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Big names in humanistic psychology didn't like behaviorists
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hierarchy of needs
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self-actualization, esteem, belonging/love, safety, physiological
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humanistic psych
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has person centered perspective with conditional positive regard-acceptance of others despite their feelings, fails to realize humanistic capacity for evil
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Rogers
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Ideal vs. Real
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self concept
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individuals self conscious
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trait perspective
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durable dispositions and consistent behaviors
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factor analysis
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statistical procedure of majority of people's traits
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extraverts
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brain is working slower and looks to seek thrills vice versa
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shyness and inhibition
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may be related to Autonomic Nervous Activity
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*personality inventories
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questionaires(T or F) designed to gauge a wide range og feelings and behaviors assessing several traits at once MMPI most widely used for IDing personality disorders
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*Eensynck's personality dimensions, Big Five Factors
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consciousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion
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generalized anxiety disorder
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persistent and uncontrollable tenseness and apprehension, autonomic arousal, inability to ID or avoid cause of certain feelings
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pain disorder
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minutes long episodes of intense dread with terror, chest pains, choking, or other fighting sensations, multiple panic attacks during da, and worrying of future panic attacks
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agoraphobia
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fear of open places without access to help
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*phobias
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persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that disrupts behavior, interferes with life and disrupts progress
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*OCD
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persistence of unwanted thought(obssessions)and urges to engage in senseless rituals(compulsions)that cause distress
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*PTSD
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4+ weeks of thinking you or someone else is in extreme danger,combat stress,rape victims,natural disasters
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4 parts of PTSD
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1)haunting memories 2)nightmares 3)social withdrawal 4)jumpy anxiety 5)sleep problems 10%women 30%men react to trauma
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fear conditioning
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leads to anxiety because assoc'd with other objects or events(stimulus generalization)occurs(fear of spider leads to fear of all insects) fear can be acquired from other person's fear
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natural selection
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fear snakes animals but not guns bc of history
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genes
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twins share phobias
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dissociative disorders
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conscious awareness bc seperated(diss'd) from previous memories,thoughts and feelings.this is Muliple Personality Disorder, having a sense of being unreal, spereated from body
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*DID cities
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DID increased in late 20th century has not been found in other countries, arguements role playing by people to open a therapist's says yes to them, learned response that reinforces reductions in anxiety
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mood disorders
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major depressive disorder and bipolar disorders
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depression stats
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5.8% men and 9.5% women report depression
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MDD
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signs lethargy and fatigue,feelings of worthlessness,loss of interest in family and friends,loss of interest in activities
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*Dysthymic Disorder
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lies btw blue mood and MDD, daily depression 2yrs+
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Bipolar 1 Disorder
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aka manic depressive disorder, cycles last 2 days or a week
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Bipolar 2 Disorder
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hypomania(manic for a week but doesn't harm your thought process)
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mania
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elation euphoria but still dips desire for action too many ideas
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positively affect creativity
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depressive episodes do self terminate, stressful events of a precede depression, depression increasing, esp. in teens
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suicide
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national diff's, racial, gender, age, statistics span across heavy things, more men commit suicide b/c of more deadly means more women attempt suicide
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manic brain
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lit up compared to depressed brain
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depressive cycle
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stressful experiences-->negative explanatory style-->depressed mood-->cognitive disorders
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schizophrenia
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means split mind, split from reality, word salad conversations ot clay(rhyming)
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signs of schizophrenia
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1)disorganized and disillusional thinking 2)disturbed perceptions 3)inappropriate emotions and actions
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*symptoms of schizophrenia
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positive symptoms-prescence of inappropriate behaviors(hallucinations) neg-absence of appropriate behaviors(expressionless face, rigid bodies) selective attention-fragmented and bizarre thoughts
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flat affect
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A severe reduction in emotional expressiveness. People with depression and schizophrenia often show flat affect. A person with schizophrenia may not show the signs of normal emotion, perhaps may speak in a monotonous voice, have diminished facial expressions, and appear extremely apathetic. Also known as blunted affect.
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catatonia
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Characterized by marked motor abnormalities including immobility (catalepsy or stupor), excessive motor activity (purposeless agitation), extreme negativism, mutism, posturing or stereotyped movements, echolalia, and/or echopraxia.
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schizophrenia happens when?
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first psychotic break late teens or early 20's(1/100) short term to chronic
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dopamine overactivity
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indicative of schizophrenia
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schizophrenia can result from
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flu in fetal period, heredity
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*personality disorders
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inflexible and ending behavior patterns that impair social functioning, they are usually without anxiety,depression,or delusions, eg narcississtic personality disorders,borderline personality disorder
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antisocial persidis
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aka sociopath ot psychopath, doesn't know why stealing or killing is bad, kids hurt animals, start fires, few friends
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Mischel
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traits are enduring but can depend on diff situation
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Gosling
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traits influence health thinking performance
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Bandura
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believes personality is result of interaction btw person and their social environment
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our personalities shape
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situations and how we react to events
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personal control
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social psychologists want to know whether we control environment or let environment control us
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*external locus of control
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perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate
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*internal locus of control
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perception we control our own fate
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learned helplessness theory
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uncontrollable bad events-->perceieved lack of control-->generalized helpless behavior
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seligman
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big name in positive psych
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behavior in situations
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predict behavio in diff situations, you can't predict behavior b/c people change
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exploring the self
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research on diff selves we process, research involves how we overestimate our concern that others evaluate our appearance, performance, blunders(spotlight effect)
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Maslow and Rogers on esteem
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healthy life, from healthy self esteem, low self esteem view ourselves and others more critically
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self serving bias
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accept responsibility for good deeds and failures
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defensive self esteem
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fragile and egotistic
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secure self esteem
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less dependent on external evaluation
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in all cultures, 2 psych disorders
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depression and schizophrenia
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psych disorder characteristics
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persisitently harmful thoughts, feelinfs,actions, deviant, distressful and dysfunctional
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ancient treatments
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exorcism, cagepit,beatings, burnings, castrated, mutilated, transfuse with animal blood, trephination-drill holes in skull
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finel on psych disorders
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insisted madness was not demonic possession but an ailment of the mind
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DSM
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diagnostical or statistical manual of mental disorders
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DSMIVTR
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(2000) 400 psych disorders, determines how prevalent disorer is
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diagnosis on 5 axis system
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1)clinal syndrome(can be changed by us)2)personality disorder mental retardation(unchanging)
3)general medical condition
4)psycosocial or environmental problems(school or housing issues, divorce, new house)
5)global assessment grade of score
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*pros of labeling psych disorders
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1)patient relieved with info
2)come up with treatment plan
3)helpful for healthcare prof's when communicating with one another
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*cons of labeling psych disorders
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1)stereotypes of the people
2)used in excess
3)follows your health insurance applying
4)insanity is a legal term for commiting crimes, not psychological
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