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Operant Extinction

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reinforcement that was in the past is now withheld, behavior decreases

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Negative punishment

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take away stimulus, behavior decreases

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ABC’s of observation

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Antecedents, Behaviors, Consequences

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Positive reinforcement

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Adding positive stimuli, increase behavior

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Habituation

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When a stimuli gets to familiar and doesn’t respond anymore

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Topography

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Configuring the form or shape of a response

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Function

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the effects of the response

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Scientist-practitioner model

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training professional psychologists that works on both research and clinical skills

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Humanistic Tradition

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People are good by nature, humans strive towards self-actualization, Maslow, Rogers

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Genotype

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Colleton of alleles

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Phenotype

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Reaction of alleles

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Central Nervous System

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Brain and spinal cord

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Sympathetic Nervous System

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fight or flight

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Emotions

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Behavior: what you do
Cognition: think
Physiology: reaction

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Observational learning

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learning by observing others

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Clinical assessment

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evaluation of factors that may be affecting an individual’s problems

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Unstructured interview

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no set of questions, probing questions. Pro: wide net of info
Con: reliability

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Validity

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actually measuring what you intend to measure

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Confounding varaible

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variable other than the IV that effects the outcome

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Negative reinforcement

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increasing behaviors by removing stimuli

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Avoidence

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avoiding the risk by discounting the activity

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Positive punishment

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adding a stimulus to stop a behavior

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Respondent extinction

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the repeated presentation of a conditioned stimuli in the absence of the unconditioned stimuli

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unconditioned stimuls

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evokes an unconditioned response without prior conditioning

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conditioned stimulus

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elicits a response only after learning has taken place

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unconditioned response

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unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus

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Conditioned reponse

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a learned response to a previously neutral stimulus

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Syndrome

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a group of symptoms which consistently occur together

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Disease

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a disorder of structure or function and is not simply a direct result of physical injury

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psychological disorder

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syndrome markedd by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior

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Symptoms

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sensation felt by an individual

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Sign

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visible to the naked eye ex. bruises

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Course

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the length of time of a disorder

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Prognosis

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a prediction of the course of a disease

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onset

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the chronological age at which symptoms of a disease or disorder first appear in an individual

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Etiology

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study of the cause of disease

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supernatural tradition

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deviant behavior as a battle of good vs. evil

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Biological tradition

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explanation of psychological dysfunction that primarily emphasizes brain disorder or illness as the cause

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Psychological tradition

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Explanation of human behavior and its dysfunction that emphasizes the influence of the social environment

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moral theory

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an explanation of what makes an action right/what makes a person good

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Psychoanalytic tradition

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condlicts between id and superego
fixation in a psychosexual stage of development
Carl Jung
Alfred Adler
Erik Erikson

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Behavioral tradition

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strong emphasis on learning
anti-mentalism
John B. Watson

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Psychoanalysis

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Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts

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law of effect

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Throndike’s rule that behaviors which have positive outcomes tend to be repeated

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Assumption og healthy normality

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humans are, by nature, psychologically healthy

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Reductionism

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to analyze a complex phenomenion in terms of the interactions of its parts

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Problems with Reductionism

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Stifles scientific progress
fails to account for interacting influences of context

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Emergent phenomena

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process in which complex phenomena arise through interactions of simpler pehenomena that do not display the same properties

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One dimensional model

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explains behavior in terms of a single cause

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multi-dimensional model

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explains behavior in terms of multiple causes

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Diathesis-stress model

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a diagnositic model that proposes that a disorder may develop

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Gene-environment correlational model

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genetic differences in exposure to particular environments

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dominant and recessive

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dominant gene in pair overrtides recessive gene

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epigenetics

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study of environmental influences on gene expression that cocur WITHOUT A a dna change

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Axon

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extension of neuron,pass messages to other neurons

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Dendrites

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brnachlike part of neurons that recieve information

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synapse

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junction between the axon tip and the dendrite

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Action potential

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a brief electircal charge that travels down an axon

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neurotransmitters

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chemicals the transmit information from one neuron to another

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autonomic nervous system

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Controls involuntary activity of visceral muscles and internal organs and glands.
Peipheral nervous system

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parasympatheic nervous system

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rest and digest

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somatic nervous system

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controls body’s skeletal muscles
peripheral nervous syste

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learned helplessness

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the behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control

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effects of social relationships

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strong social ties are linked to a longer life

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equifinality

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different causes leads to one outcome

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multifinality

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same cause leads to different outcomes

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diagnosis

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process of determining weather a particular problem affecting the individual meets criteria for a psychological disorder

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structured interview

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fixed set of questions.
pro: good at getting info
con: awkward

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semistructured interview

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a guided open-ended interview
pro: ask whatever you want

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behavioral assessment

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evaluating the client’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors

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reliaility

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measure of repeated test or observation

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categorical approach

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diagnosis is categorical, and a person is either in the cateogry or not

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dimensional approach

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consider psychological disorders along a continuum

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prototypical approach

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provides essential characteristics but allows for variation

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DSM - %

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psychological tests

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procedures used to evaluate personality traits, emotional states,

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comborbidity

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the co-occurrence of two or more disorders in an individual

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hypothesis

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a testable prediciton

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independent variable

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variable that is manipulated

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dependent variable

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variable that is being measured

81
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internal validtiy

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cause-and0effect infrences from a study

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external valdity

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we can generalize findings to real-world settings

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correlation

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a meaure pf the relationship between two variables

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causation

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event occur in predictiable ways that one event leads to another

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replication

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repeasting research to determine the extent to which findings generalize across time and situations

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