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vocab ch 10,11,13,14
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/09/2010

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pyschological disorder
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deviant,distressful and dysfunctional behavior patterns
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adhd
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pyshological disorder marked by appearance by age 7 of one of more symptons, inattentions,hyperactive
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medical model
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concept disease in this case psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed treated and cured most times
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DSM-IV
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statistical manual of mental disorders
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anxiety disorders
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distressing persistant behaviors that reduce anxiety
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panic disorder
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anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minute long episodes of being scared, and terror
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phobia
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anxiety disorder marked by persistant fear and avoidance of object
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obsessive compulsive disorder
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characterized by unwanted reptitive thoughts and actions
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post traumatic stress disorder
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haunting memories social withdrawal insomnia
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dissociative disorders
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conscious becomes seperated from previous memories,feelings
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dissociative identity disorder
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rare disorder where person has 2 or more personailty
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personailty disorder
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inflexible enduring behavior patterns impair social functioning
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antisocial personailty disorder
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lacks conscience of wrongdoing
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mood disorders
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 emotional extremes
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mania
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 mood disorder marked by hyperactive state
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bipolar disorder
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person alternates of happy to sad
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motivation
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a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
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instinct
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 complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned
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through
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homeostasis
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 tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state
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incentive
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positive or negative enviroment stimulus.
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hierarchy of needs
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maslows pyramid of human needs that must be met before other levels can be met
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set point
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supposedly set weight
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basal metabolic rate
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body resting rate of energy expenditure
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anorexia
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skinny as fuck
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bulimia nervosa
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eat too much and vomit or exercise compulsively
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sexual response cycle
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four stages of sexual responding described by masters and johnson excitement plateau orgasm resolution
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refractory period
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 resting period after orgasm man cannot have other
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sexual disorder
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problem with arousal
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estrogen
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sex hormone secreted more in females
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testosterone
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important male sex hormone
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sexual orientation
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enduring sexual attraction to be own or other sex
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acvhiement motivation
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desire for signicantly accomplishment
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emotion
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response of whole organism
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james lange theory
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our physiological response to emotion arousing stimuli
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cannon bard theory
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emotion arousing stimulus triggers response and emotion
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two factor theory
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 one must be aroused and cognitively labe the arousal
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feel good do good phenomenom
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tendacy to help when in a good mood
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subjective well being
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self view of happiness with life
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adaption level phenomenom
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tendacy to form neutral level of prior experience
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relative deprivation
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 perception that one is worse off with whom is compared
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stress
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process we percieve and respond to certain events we appraise or challenge it
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general adaption syndrome
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concept of body to response to streess /alarm
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coronary heart disease
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clogging of vessels that nourish heart muscle.
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type a
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friedman and rosenmans term for competitive hard driving anger prone people
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type b
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easy going relaxed people
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pyschotherapy
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between therapist and person seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or growth.
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biomedical therapy
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medical procedures that act on nervous system
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eclectric approach
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pyschotherapy that depending on the client problems, use various therapy
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cognitive therapy
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 teaches new adaptable ways of thinking and acting
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psychopharmacology
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study of drugs on mind and behavior
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psychosurgery
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removes brain tissue to change behavior
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lobotomy
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now rare, cut nerves on front lobes to control emotion.
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