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1
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Long molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) at various locations on
chromosomes, within the cell nucleus.

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Genes

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Individuals inherit tendencies to express certain traits or behaviors, which may then be activated under conditions of stress

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Diathesis–stress model

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Condition that makes someone susceptible to developing a disorder.

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Diathesis

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Indicates that genetic endowment may increase the probability that an individual will experience stressful
life events

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Gene–environment correlation model

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How environment can change gene expression

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Epigenetics

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Knowing how the nervous system and, especially, how the brain works is central to any understanding of our behavior, emotions, and cognitive processes.

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Neuroscience

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End of an axon

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Terminal button

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Brain uses an average of 140 billion nerve cells, called?

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Neurons

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Information is transmitted through electrical impulses, called?

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Action potentials

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Space between the terminal button of one neuron and the dendrite of another

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Synaptic cleft

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Biochemicals that are released from the axon of one neuron and transmit the impulse to the dendrite receptors of another neuron

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Neurotransmitters

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Neurons that increase the likelihood that the connecting neuron will fire

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Excitatory

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Neurons that decrease the likelihood that the connecting neuron will fire.

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Inhibitory

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Endocrine gland produces its own chemical messenger, called?

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Hormone

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Paths may overlap with the paths of other neurotransmitters

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Brain circuits

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Effectively increase the activity of a neurotransmitter by mimicking
its effects

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Agonists

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Decrease, or block, a neurotransmitter

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Antagonists

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Produce effects opposite to those produced by the neurotransmitter.

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Inverse agonists

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Afer a neurotransmitter is released, it is quickly broken down and brought
back from the synaptic cleft into the same neuron that released it.

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Reuptake

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Excitatory transmitter that “turns on” many different neurons, leading to action.

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Glutamate

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Inhibitory neurotransmitter; inhibit (or regulate) the transmission of information and action potentials.

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GABA

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Regulates our behavior, moods, and
thought processes.

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Serotonin

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23
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4 neurotransmitter system in the monoamine class important to psychopathology

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Glutamate
GABA
Norepinephrine
Dopamine

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Concerned with how we acquire and process information and how we store and ultimately retrieve it

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Cognitive science

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State that occurs after someone has experienced a stressful situation repeatedly; believe that they are unable to control or change the situation, so they do not try, even when opportunities for change are available

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Learned helplessness

26
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Organisms can learn just as much by observing what happens to someone else in a given situation.

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Modeling or observational learning.

27
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We have become highly prepared for learning about certain types of objects or situations over the course of evolution because this knowledge contributes to the survival of the species

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Prepared learning

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Apparent when someone clearly acts on the basis of things that have happened in the past but can’t remember the events.

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Implicit memory

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Conscious memory for events

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Explicit memory

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We simply seem able to process and store information, and act on it, without having the slightest awareness of what the information is or why we are acting on it

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Blind sight or unconscious vision.

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Refers to unobservable feelings and cognitions inferred from an individual’s self-report or behaviors.

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Black box

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Alarm reaction that activateduring potentially life-threatening emergencies

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Fiight or flight response

33
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Tendency to behave in a certain way
(for example, escape), elicited by an external event (a threat) and a feeling state (terror) and accompanied by a (possibly) characteristic physiological response

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Action tendency

34
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More persistent period of affect or
emotionality.

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Mood

35
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Refers to the valence dimension (i.e.,
pleasant or positive vs. unpleasant or negative) of an emotion.

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Affect

36
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Any emotional experience can be assigned as a point on this two-dimensional system; this two dimensional system is known as?

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Circumplex model

37
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Used to summarize commonalities among emotional states characteristic of an individual

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Affective style

38
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3 Components of emotion

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Behavior
Physiology
Cognition

39
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Characterized by exaggerated startle
responses, and other observable fear and anxiety reactions.

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Fright disorders

40
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Refers to protecting themselves
and their young through nurturing behavior (tend) and forming alliances with larger social groups, particularly other females

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“tend and befriend”

41
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Used in developmental psychopathology to indicate that we must consider a number of paths to a given outcome

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Equifinality

42
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Why is psychology soft science?

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Mostly uses theories

43
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3 aspects/ basic concepts to help determine the value of assessments.

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Reliability
Validity
Standardization

44
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How well your assessment tells you what will happen in the future.

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Predictive validity

45
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Lessen negative effect.

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Inter-rater Reliability

46
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Application of certain standards to ensure consistency across different measurements; uniform; lessen biases.

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Standardization

47
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Core of most clinical work; gathers info on current and past behavior, attitudes, and emotion, as we as a detailed history of the individual’s life in general and of presenting problems.

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Clinical Interview

48
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Involves the systematic observation of an individual’s behavior.

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Mental Status Examination (MSE)

49
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5 categories of MSE.

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Physical appearance & behavior
Thought process
Mood & Affect
Intellectual Functioning
Sensorium

50
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Rate or flow of speech.

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Thought Process

51
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Disorganized speech pattern.

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Loose association/ Derailment

52
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Object or event is present but is actually absent.

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Hallucination

53
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Seeing something but with a different perspective.

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Illusion

54
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Beliefs with no basis/ factual evidence; distorted view of reality.

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Delusion

55
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A person thinks people are after him and out to get him all the time.

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Persecutory delusion

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An individual thinks they’re all-powerful in some ways.

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Grandeur delusion

57
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Everything everyone else does somehow relates back to them.

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Ideas of reference

58
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3 types of delusion.

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Persecutory delusion
Grandeur delusion
Ideas of reference

59
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General awareness of surrounding.

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Sensorium

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