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Psych 350
Chapter 14
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
06/30/2009

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Term
clinical psychology
Definition
The study, assesment, and treatment of people with psychological difficulties.
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depressive realism
Definition
The tendency of mildly depressed people to make accurate rather than self-serving judgements, attributions, and predictions.
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explanatory style
Definition
One's habitual way of explaining life events. A negative, pessimistic, depressive explanatory style attributes failure to stable, global, and internal causes.
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behavioral medicine
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An interdisiplinary field that integrates and applies behavioral and medical knowledge about health and disease.
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health psychology
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The study of the psychological roots of health and illness. Provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine.
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