CHAPTER 12 Vocab F-Z Flashcards

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A psychological disorder marked by a chronic, high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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The process of determining the location and chemical sequence of specific genes on specific chromosomes

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Genetic mapping

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Sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of a real, external stimulus, or gross distortions of perceptual input

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Hallucinations

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the tendency to mold one’s interpretation of the past to fit how events actually turned out

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Hindsight bias

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A somatoform disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation with health concerns and incessant worry about developing physical illnesses

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Hypochondriasis

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A legal status indicaing that a person cannot be held responsible for his or her own actions because of mental illness

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Insanity

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A civil proceeding in which people are hospitalized in psychiatric facilities against their will

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Involuntary commitment

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Passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events

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Learned helplessness

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Mood disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure

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Major depressive disorder

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A class of disorders marked by emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical perceptual, social, and though processes

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Mood disorders

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The view that is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease

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Medical model

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Dissociative identity disorder

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Multiple-personality disorder

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The strengthening of a response because it is followed by the removal of an aversive stimulus

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Negative reinforcement

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Schizophrenic symptoms hat involve behavioral deficits, such as flattened emotions, social withdrawal, apathy, impaired attention, and poverty of speech

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Negative symptoms

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A type of anxiety disorder marked by persistence, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts (obsessions), and urges to engage in senseless rituals (compulsions)

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

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A type of anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly

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Panic disorder

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A type of schizophrenia that is dominated by delusions of persecution along with delusions of grandeur

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Paranoid schizophrenia

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A class of psychological disorders marked by extreme, inflexible personality personality traits that cause subjective distress or impaired social and occupational functioning

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Personality disorders

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Irrational fears of specific objects or situations

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Phobias

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A type of anxiety disorder marked by a persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger

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Phobic disorder

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Schizophrenic symptoms that involve behavioral excesses or peculiarities, such as hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, and wild flights of ideas

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Positive symptoms

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A species-specific predispositionts be conditioned in certain ways and not others

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Preparedness

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The percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder during a specified time period

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Prevalence

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A forecast about the probable course of an illness

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Prognosis

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Physical ailments with a genuine organic basis that are caused in part by psychological factors, especially emotional distress

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Psychosomatic diseases

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Basing the estimated probability of an event on how similar it is to the typical prototype of that event

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Representativeness heuristic

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Loss of memories for events that occurred prior to a head injury

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Retrograde amneisa

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A type of somatoform disorder marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psycholgoical in origin

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Schizophrenic disorders

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A type of somatoform disorder marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to e psychological in origin

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Somatization disorder

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A class of psychological disorders involving physical ailments with no authentic organic basis that are due to pschological factors

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Somatoform disorders

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Any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one’s well-being and that thereby tax one’s coping abilities

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Stress

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An unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning

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Unconditioned response (UR)

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A stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous response conditioning

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Unconditioned stimulus (UCS)

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A type of schizophrenia marked by idiosyncratic mixtures of schizophrenic symptoms

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Undifferentiated schizophrenia