Clinical Flashcards

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Clinical psychology

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The branch of psychology concerned with mental illness and behavioral problems

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2
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Brain Care

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Diet
Sleep
Music
Exercise

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Brain Development

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Five weeks; the brain and spinal cord start to develop

Eight months; almost completely developed

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Spinels and K-complex

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Spindles; short bursts of high frequency

K-complexes; sharp single spikes low frequency

Both stage 2

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Brain waves

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Beta 
Alpha 
Alpha and theta 
Theta with spindles and k-complexes 
Delta and theta 
Delta 
Most like beta
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Manifest content

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The true meaning between our dreams

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Latent content

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The part of the dream we remember

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The conscious mind

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Everything we are immediately aware of

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Our preconscious mind

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Everything my we recall

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Our unconscious mind

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Thoughts that make us feel anxious or guilty. We cannot access these thoughts because of our ego

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New born,0-2 weeks

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16-18

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Babies 14-15

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14-15 hours

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Children 3-5 years

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10-12 hours

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Teenagers

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9-10

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Adults

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7-9 hours

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Older people

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6-7hours

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The role of a forensic psychologist

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They practice psychology in the law

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What is a stalker?

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People who persist with unwanted communication and harassment

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The rejected stalker

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Someone who has once known the victim. Motivated by reconciliation or revenge

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The intimacy stalker

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Someone who desires a relationship with the stalker. They mainly believe that the feelings are reciprocated

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The incompetent stalker

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Like the intimacy stalker, but usually just seek contact with the victim

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The resentful stalker

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Their main aim is to scare the victim

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The predatory stalker

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Stalkers as part of a “plan”, with the intent of insulting or killing the victim.

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The dimensions that measure a psychopath

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Interpersonal

Affective

Lifestyle

Antisocial

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The visionary killer

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Believe that visions or voices guide their actions

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The mission-orientated killer

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Believes that they have to remove a certain group of people form society

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Hedonistic killer

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The killer gains pleasure form the killing

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Power-controlled orientated

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The killer gain sexual satisfaction from controlling people

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Weapon focus

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When the presents of a weapon draws the whiteness’ attention from other aspects of the crime

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Reconstructive memories

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When we reconstruct memories to make sense. Usually leading to false truths about what happened

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Misleading questions

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Carefully worded questions, to change the memories of the victim

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What Is a police line up?

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When suspects fitting the description are lined up for the victim or whiteness and the offender is identified. This works best when a known victim is among the suspects

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Encoding

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Information must 1st be converted so the brain can understand

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Storage

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The information we encode is stored in our memories

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Retrieval

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The process of recalling the information

36
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Ethics

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Confidentiality 
Voluntary participation 
Withdrawal rights
Consent 
Deception 
Debriefing 
Professional conduct