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A persons relatively stable disposition to behave in a certain way

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Trait

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Statistical technique used to identify patterns of correlations in response to questions

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Factor analysis

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Brain areas involved in approach and avoidance, reward for punishment

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Grays BAS AND BIS

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MMPI

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Most widely used personality inventory and developed identify emotional disorders

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Sigmand freud

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Pioneered the clinical approach to understanding personality

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Psychodynamic theory

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A personality theory that focuses on the interaction of mental forces

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Libido

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Sexual desire

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Regression

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Going back to a past behavior

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Channeling socially unacceptable urges into acceptable behaviors

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Sublimation

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A drive for perfection and superiority through adulthood because of lower ranked childhood

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Inferiority complex

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Disorder in which someone has an exaggerated feeling of importance

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Superiority complex

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Person centered therapy

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Client is responsible for changing his personality

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The part that tries to satisfy a persons survival instinct

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ID

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Ego

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Tries to identify the drive and come up with a realistic plan

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Psychopathology

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Study of the disorders of the mind, mood, and behavior

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GAD disorder

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Excessive anxiety and worry

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Excessive fear of a specific object or situation

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Phobias

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Style in which a person interacts with the world, particularly other people

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Personality

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Persistent obsession and compulsion

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OCD

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PTSD

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Prolonged reaction to a traumatic event

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Sever depression that lasts more than 2 weeks

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Major Depressive disorder

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Alternating periods of mania and depression

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Bipolar disorder

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Schizophrenia

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Delusions, disturbed perceptions inappropriate emotions and actions

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Dominated by delusions and hallucinations

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Paranoid

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Catatonic

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Repetitive speech

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Undifferentiated

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Varied symptoms

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Residual

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Some symptoms without criteria

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Presence of 2 or more personalities

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Dissociative identity disorder

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A gradual process of extinguishing a fear

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Systematic desensitization

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