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Abnormal behavior

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Behavior that causes people to experience distress and prevents them from functioning in their daily lives

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DSM-5

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Used by most professionals to diagnose and classify abnormal behavior

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Major Depressive Disorder

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Severe form of depression that interferes with concentration, decision making, and sociability

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Bipolar Disorder

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People alternates between periods of euphoric feelings of mania and periods of depression

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Manic episode

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Extended state of intense, wild elation

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Anxiety

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Occurrence of anxiety without an obvious external cause that affects daily functioning

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Anxiety Disorders

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Occurrence of anxiety without an obvious external cause that affects daily functioning

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Obsession

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Persistent unwanted thought or idea that keeps recurring

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Compulsion

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Persistent unwanted thought or idea that keeps recurring

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Panic attacks

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Anxiety suddenly rising to a peek, one feels a sense of impending and unavoidable doom

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Agoraphobia

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Fear of being in a situation in which escape is difficult and help unavailable

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Specific phobia

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Intense, irrational fears of specific objects or situations

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Personality disorder

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Characterized by a set of inflexible, maladaptive behavior patterns that keep a person from functioning appropriately society

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Borderline personality disorder

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Difficulty developing a secure sense of who they are, emotional volatility leads to impulsive and self-destructive behavior

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Dissociative Disorders

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Psychological dysfunctions characterized by the separation of different facers of a person’s personality that are normally integrated

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Dissociative fugue

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Individual leave home suddenly and assumes a new identity

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Person displays characteristics of two or more distinct personalities

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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Individuals shows no regard for the moral and ethical rules of society or the rights of others

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Schizophrenia

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Class of disorders in which severe distortion of reality occurs

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Hallucinations

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Auditory hallucinations are usually experienced as voices, whether familiar or unfamiliar, that are perceived as distinct from the person’s own thoughts

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Delusions

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False or erroneous beliefs that usually involve a misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences

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Positive symptoms

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Excess or distortion of normal function. For example, Delusions – falsely held beliefs usually due to a distorted perception or experience. Delusions are the most common symptom of schizophrenia.

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Thought disorder

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difficulty organizing and expressing thoughts. This might result in stopping mid-sentence or speaking nonsensically; including the making up of words.

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Disorganized behavior

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unusual and inappropriate behavior. This might be childlike behavior or unpredictable agitation.

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Movement disorder

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agitated or repeated movements. Catatonia (non-moving and non-responsive) is also possible.

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Negative symptoms

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Refer to a decrease or absence of normal function. For example, Apparent lack of emotion or small emotional range, reduced ability to plan and follow-through with activities, neglect of personal hygiene, social withdrawal, decrease in talkativeness, loss of motivations

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Psychotherapy

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Treatment in which a trained professional called a therapist, uses psychological techniques to help a person overcome psychological difficulties and disorders, to resolve problems in living, or bring about personal growth

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Transference

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Transfer of feelings to a psychoanalyst that has been originally directed to a patient’s parent or other authoritative figures

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Person-centered therapy

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Goal is to reach one’s potential for self-actualization

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Behavior therapy

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Approaches that make use of the basic processes of learning such as reinforcement and extinction, to reduce or eliminate maladaptive behavior

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Systematic desensitization

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Exposure to an anxiety-producing stimulus is paired with deep relaxation to extinguish the response of anxiety

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Aversive conditioning

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Reduces the frequency of undesired behavior by pairing with an aversive stimulus

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Cognitive-behavioral therapy

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Incorporates basic principles of learning to change the way people think

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Group therapy

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Therapy in which people meet in a group with a therapist discuss problems

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Family therapy

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Focuses on the family and its dynamics

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Lithium

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Bipolar disorder treatment

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Electroconvulsive therapy

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Procedure used in the treatment of severe depression

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Antipsychotic medication

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Temporarily reduce psychotic symptoms such as agitations, hallucinations, and delusions

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Antianxiety medication

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Reduce the level of anxiety a person experiences essentially by reducing excitability and increasing feelings of well-being

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Self-serving bias

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Tendency to attribute success to personal factors and failure to factors outside oneself

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Social psychology

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Scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by others

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Stereotype

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Set of generalized beliefs and expectations about a specific group and its members

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Obedience

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A change in behavior in response to the commands of others

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Prosocial behavior

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Helping behavior

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Diffusion of responsibility

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Belief that responsibility for intervening is shared, or diffused, among those percent

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Attribution theory

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Considers how we decide, on the basis of samples of a person’s behavior, what the specific cause of that behavior are

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Central route persuasion

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Occurs when a persuasive message is evaluated by thoughtful consideration of the issues and arguments used to persuade

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Peripheral route persuasion

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Occurs when a persuasive message is evaluated on the basis of irrelevant or extraneous factors

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Cognitive dissonance

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The mental conflict that occurs when a person holds two contradictory attitudes or thoughts

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Conformity

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A change in behavior or attitudes brought about by a desire to follow the beliefs or standards of other people

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Prejudice

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Negative (or positive) evaluation of a group and its members

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Altruism

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Helping behavior that requires self-sacrifice

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Diffusion of responsibility

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Belief that responsibility for intervening is shared, or diffused, among those present

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Group think

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Type of thinking in which group members share such a strong motivation to achieve consensus that they lose the ability to critically evaluate alternative points of view

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Passionate love

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State of intense absorption in someone that includes intense physiological arousal, psychological interest, and caring for the needs of another

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Companionate love

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Strong affection we have for those with whom our lives are deeply involved

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To Know

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Know that to be a disorder behavior must be dysfunctional.

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To Know

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• Know that schizophrenia is a disease of the brain exhibited in symptoms of the mind

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How do we explain schizophrenia?

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Class of disorders in which severe distortion of reality occurs

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What is antisocial personality disorder?

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Individuals show no regard for the moral and ethical rules of society or the rights of others

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To Know

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• Know the Zimbardo (1972) study with male college students in a simulated prison at Stanford.

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