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PSY Exam #3 Flashcards

1
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Physiological Activation

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what your body feels

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Expressive Behavior

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signaling to others

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Conscious Experience

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aware you are experiencing it

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James-Lange Theory

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body responds first, because of this you feel an emotion. (body cries –> feel sad)

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Cannon-Bard Theory

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emotional response AND physiological activation occur at the same time

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Schachter-Singer’s 2 Factor Theory

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need environment to figure out source of arousal because most emotions feel very similar

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Misattributing Arousal

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wrongly assigning emotions to what you are feeling

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Emotional Reasoning

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use feelings to convince ourselves something is actually true

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Left brain is more…

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Happy

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Right brain is more…

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Depressed

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Charles Darwin speculated:

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Our ancestors communicate with facial expressions in the absence of language

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Universal Emotions

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Anger
Fear
Happiness
Sadness
Disgust
Surprise

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Facial Feedback Hypothesis

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our facial expression can influence our inner emotions

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Catharsis Hypothesis

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venting anger through actions or fantasy activities

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Reducing Anger

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Wait
Stop getting annoyed by little things
Act assertively, talk constructively
Forgiveness
Express emotions safely

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Subjective Well Being

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self perceived feeling of happiness/satisfaction around life

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Variations in Happiness

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positive mood reaches a maximum within 6-7 hours of waking up

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Hedonic Treadmill

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happiness treadmill where we continue to adjust our levels of happiness

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What makes us happy

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Self esteem
Optimism
Close friend or marriage
work that matches your skills
active religious faith
sleep/exercise

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Stress

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Any situation, real or perceived, that threatens your well being

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Stressors

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something that causes a state of strain or tension

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Seyle’s General Adaptation Syndrome

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Alarm
mobilizing resources
Resistance
stress doesn’t impact you as much
Exhaustion
becomes too much, can’t handle it

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Long term stress and persistence is

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Harmful

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Problem Focused Coping

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Reducing stress by changing events that cause stress

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Emotion Focused Coping

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when we cannot change a stressful situation we comfort ourselves

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Avoidant Coping

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escaping the problem or situation

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Perceived Control

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We love being in control and we feel stressed when we are not

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Social Support

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being with your friends or family helps reduce stress

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Aerobic Exercise

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Running and lifting is proven to reduce stress

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Relaxation/Meditation

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Being calm and peaceful is proven to reduce stress

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Faith Communities

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proven to lead to healthy behaviors and literally leads to a longer life

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Motivation

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a need or desire that energizes behavior and directs it towards a goal

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Instincts

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Fixed patterns that are unlearned across all species (eating, avoid pain, sex)

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Drive Reduction Theory

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We have a need that creates a drive in us, when you feel an arousal (hunger) you have a drive to reduce it (find food)

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Homeostasis

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Balanced state, end goal

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36
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Incentives

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positive stimuli that motivate our behavior (favorite food)

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Abraham Maslow suggested

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Hierarchy of Needs, hunger and thirst are at the bottom and living up to your fullest potential is at the top

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38
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Self Transcendence Needs

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meaning and identity that goes beyond yourself

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Glucose

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is monitored and neurons send messages to hypothalamus

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Lateral Hypothalamus

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brings on hunger

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Ventromedial Hypothalamus

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depresses hunger

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Set Point

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Internal “thermostat” which is influenced by heredity and body type

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Neophobia

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We avoid new and unfamiliar foods because of potential threats

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Situational Influences

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Eat more when in a group because we are more aroused

45
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4 Phases of Sex

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Excitement
Plateau
Orgasm
Resolution

46
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Imagined

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most powerful sexual stimuli is the brain

47
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Sexual Orientation

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refers to a person’s enduring attraction to others

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Physiological DIsorders

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bring unexplained, physical symptoms, irrational fears, and suicidal thoughts

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What are the 3 D’s?

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Deviant, Distress, and Dysfunctional

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Deviant

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things depend on social and cultural norms (walking around naked)

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Distress

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goes along with deviant behavior

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Dysfunctional

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Messing up daily life

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Medical Model

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Cause
Diagnosis
Treatment
Prognosis

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Anxiety

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nervousness, worry, and unease

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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uncontrollable tenseness and autonomic arousal but no legitimate source of anxiety

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Panic Disorder

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minute long episodes of dread which include feelings of terror, chest pains, and choking

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Phobia

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marked by persistent and irrational fear of an object/situation that disrupts behavior

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

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persistent, unwanted thoughts or urges that engage in senseless rituals that cause distress

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PTSD

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four or more weeks of the following symptoms
haunting memories
nightmares
social withdrawal
jumpy anxiety
sleep problems

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Learning Perspective

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Conditioning
Observational Learning
Cognition

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Biological Perspective

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Natural Selection
Genes
Brain Pathways

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Major Depression

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30% of college students, “common cold” of disorders

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Signs of Depression

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Lethargy
Worthlessness
Loss of interest

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BiPolar Disorder

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Alternating between depression and mania

65
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What percent of mood disorders run in the family?

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37%

66
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Schizophrenia

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people lose touch with reality and have disturbed perceptions

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Positive Symptoms

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presence of inappropriate behaviors

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Negative Symptoms

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absence of appropriate behaviors

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Schizophrenia Positive Symptoms

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Delusions
Hallucinations
Inappropriate Affect
Disorganized Thoughts

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Schizophrenia Negative Symptoms

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Expressionless Face
Rigid Bodies
Social Withdrawal

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Schizophrenia Delusion Types

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Control: gov controlling them
Erotomania: Taylor Swift talks to me
Grandeur: famous historical person
Reference: tv is speaking to me

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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conscious awareness of being separated from previous memories and thoughts (watching yourself like a movie)

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Fugue

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taking on a brand new personality and you flee your “old” life

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Personality Disorder

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Enduring patterns of behavior that impair social functioning

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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usually men, lack empathy and shows symptoms in their youth

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Psychotherapy

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emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist

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Biomedical Therapy

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use drugs or other procedures to act on one’s nervous system

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Terms of Psychoanalytic Therapy

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Id: animalistic drives
Ego: sense of self, mix of the two
Superego: conscience

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Defense Mechanisms

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Denial
Repression
Displacement
Reaction Formation
Projection
Sublimation

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Denial

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Rejecting claims

81
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Repression

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intentionally forgetting something so it doesn’t hurt

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Displacement

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Express your emotions on a safer target

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Reaction Formation

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Bully other people because of the things you are insecure about

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Projection

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Put your feelings on others (you look stressed)

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Sublimation

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Less acceptable urges turn into acceptable expressions (agression –> sports)

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Free Association

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talk freely without stopping to see what your mind really thinks

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Dream Analysis

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dreams are indicators of what your unconscious mind is trying to say

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Resistence

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Avoidance of the topic in therapy means something is going on

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Transference

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taking your feelings and transferring them over to the therapist and not the other way around

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Psychodynamic Therapy

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face to face, interpersonal of modern day problems, symptom relief.

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Humanistic Theory

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goal is to boost self fulfillment, gow in self awareness

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Roger’s Client Centered Theory

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client goes where they want

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Unconditional Positive Regard

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no matter what the client says you give them nonstop support and affirmation

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Behavior Therapy

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focus on behavior and not the cause. Common treatments are phobias and sexual disorders

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Counter Conditioning

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giving someone new conditions for a stimulus, repeated exposure reduces fear

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Systematic Desensitization

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exposure therapy that associates a pleasant state with gradually increasing anxiety

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Cognitive Therapy

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teaches people adaptive ways of thinking based on changing your intervening thoughts

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Ellis Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

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irrational beliefs can cause negative emotions, stop your thinking!

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Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

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focuses both on how people think and also their behaviors, most popular among therapists now

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Psychopharmacology

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study of drug effects on mind and behavior

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Chlorpromazine

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Remove a number of positive symptoms as an Antipsychotic

102
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Clozapine

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Removes a number of negative symptoms as an Antipsychotic

103
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Antianxiety

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Xanax and Ativan

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Antidepressant

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Prozac, Xoloft, and Paxil

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Lithium

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a common salt that has been used to stabilize manic episodes

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(ECT) Electroconvulsive Therapy

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used on severely depressed patients that don’t respond to therapy or drugs where a patient’s brain is shocked in hopes of the brain rewiring and becoming less depressed

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Psychosurgery

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Remove or damage parts of the brain to relieve pain

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