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Exam 4 Flashcards

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Attribution Theory

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Fritz Heider, the theory that we explain someone’s behavior by crediting either the situation or the person’s disposition.

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Fundamental attribution error

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the tendency for observers, when analyzing others’ behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition.

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People in _________ cultures are somewhat more sensitive to the power of situation.

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East Asian

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Peripheral route persuasion

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occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker’s attractiveness.

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Central route persuasion

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occurs when interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts.

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Foot-in-the-door phenomenon

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the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request.

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Cognitive dissonance theory

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Leon Festinger, the theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent.

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Normative social influence

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influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval.

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Informational social influence

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influence resulting from one’s willingness to accept others’ opinions about reality.

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Social facilitation

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improved performance on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others.

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Social loafing

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the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort than when individually accountable.

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Deindividuation

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the loss of self-awareness and self-control occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.

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Group polarization

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the enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group.

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Groupthink

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Irving Janis, the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.

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Just-world phenomenon

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the tendency for people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get.

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Ingroup

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“us” - people with whom we share a common identity.

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Outgroup

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“them” - those perceived as different or apart from our ingroup.

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Scapegoat theory

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the theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame.

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Other-race effect

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the tendency to recall faces of one’s own race more accurately than faces of other races.

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Frustration-aggression principle

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the principle that frustration creates anger, which can generate aggression.

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Social script

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culturally modeled guide for how to act in various situations.

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Mere exposure effect

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the phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them.

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Passionate love

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an aroused state of intense positive absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship.

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Companionate love

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the deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined.

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Equity

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a condition in which people receive from a relationship in proportion to what they give to it.

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Self-disclosure

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the act if revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others.

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Social trap

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a situation in which the conflicting parties, by each pursuing their self-interest rather than the good of the group, become caught in mutually destructive behavior.

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Mirror-image perceptions

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mutual views often held by conflicting people, as when each side sees itself as ethical and peaceful and views the other side as evil and aggressive.

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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a belief that leads to its own fulfillment.

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Superordinate goals

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shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation.

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GRIT

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Charles Osgood, Graduated and Reciprocated Initiatives in Tension-Reduction - a strategy designed to decrease international tensions.

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Self-serving bias

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people tend to make INTERNAL attributions for POSITIVE outcomes, and blame NEGATIVE outcomes on EXTERNAL attributions.

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Compliance

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yielding to a direct, explicit appeal meant to produce certain behavior or agreement to a particular point of view.

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Autokinetic effect

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a phenomenon in which a small dot of stationary light in a dark room appears to move after a while.

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Three important features of aggression

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  1. Is a behavior
  2. Is intentional, and the intent is to harm
  3. The victim WANTS to avoid the harm
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Psychodynamic theories

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view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences.

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Psychoanalysis

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Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions.

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Unconscious

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according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware.

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Free association

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a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind.

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Id

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a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. Operates on the pleasure principle.

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Pleasure principle

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how the id operates, seeks immediate gratification.

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Ego

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the largely conscious, “executive” part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. Operates on the reality principle.

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Reality principle

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how the ego operates, satisfies the id’s desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.

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Superego

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the part of the personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and for future aspirations.

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Psychosexual stages

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the childhood stages of development, during which the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.

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Oral stage

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0-18 months, pleasure centers on the mouth (sucking, biting, chewing).

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Anal stage

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18-36 months, pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control.

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Phallic stage

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3-6 years, pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings.

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Latency stage

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6-puberty, a phase of dormant sexual feelings.

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Genital stage

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puberty on, maturation of sexual interests.

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Oedipus complex

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a boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.

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Identification

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the process by which children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos.

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Fixation

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a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved.

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Defense mechanisms

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the ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.

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Repression

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the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.

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Regression

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retreating to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated.

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Reaction formation

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switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites.

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Projection

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disguising one’s own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.

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Rationalizing

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offering self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one’s actions.

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Displacement

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shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person.

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Denial

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refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities.

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Collective unconscious

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Carl Jung, concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species’ history.

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Projective test

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a personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics.

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Thematic Apperception Test

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Henry Murray, a projective test in which people make up stories about pictures they are shown.

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Rorschach ink blot test

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most widely used projective test, seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots.

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False consensus effect

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the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors.

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Terror-management theory

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a theory of death-related anxiety that explores people’s emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death.

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Humanistic theories

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view personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth.

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Self-actualization

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Maslow, the motivation to fulfill one’s potential.

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Rogers’ three conditions for growth-promoting climate

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  1. Genuineness
  2. Acceptance
  3. Empathy
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Unconditional positive regard

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Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person.

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Self-concept

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all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves.

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Personal inventory

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a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors.

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

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the most widely researched and clinically used personality test, developed to identify emotional disorders but now used for other purposes.

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Empirically derived test

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a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups.

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The big five factors

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  1. Conscientiousness
  2. Agreeableness
  3. Neuroticism
  4. Openness
  5. Extraversion
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Social-cognitive perspective

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views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people’s traits and their social context.

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Reciprocal determinism

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the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.

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Self-efficacy

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one’s sense of competence and effectiveness.

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Medical model

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the concept that mental illnesses have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured, often through hospitalization.

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Epigenetics

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the study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change.

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DSM-5

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the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders; a system for classifying psychological disorders.

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal.

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Panic disorder

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marked by unpredictable, minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations.

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Phobia

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marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation.

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Major depressive disorder

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a person experiences two or more weeks with five or more symptoms, one of which must be either depressed mood or loss of interest/pleasure.

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Mania

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a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in which dangerously poor judgment is common.

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Bipolar disorder

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a disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.

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Rumination

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compulsive fretting; overthinking about our problems and their causes.

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Dissociative disorders

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controversial, rare disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.

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