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Psych words Flashcards

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Altruism

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Stress defence mechanism - deal through devotion to charitable endeavours to helping others

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Sublimination

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Stress defence mechanism - channel maladaptive impulses into social acceptable behaviour e.g. playing in sport to channel aggression

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Suppression

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Stress defence mechanism - distract oneself to stop thinking about stress

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Affiliation

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Stress defence mechanism - seek support from others

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Personalisation

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CBT Cognitive error - blaming yourself for general things

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Dichotomous

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CBT cognitive error - If you don’t get exactly the goals you wanted everything else awful e.g. grade B is shit

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Arbitary inference

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CBT cognitive error - jumping to conculsions

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Selective abstraction

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CBT cognitive error - cant stop obsessing over one thought

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Minimisation

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CBT cognitive error - belittling something good e.g. only said well done because she was in a good mood

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Displacement

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Stress defence mechanism - transfer -ve feelings about one person to another

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Externalisation

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Stress defence mechanism - blame others

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Intellectulization

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Stress defence mechanism - avoid painful emotion but get stuck on detail

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Autistic fantasy

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Stress defence mechanism - day dream to avoid

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Rection formation

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Stress defence mechanism - express unconscious unacceptable impulse in the opposite more acceptable form

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Projection

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Stress defence mechanism - falsely attribute unacceptable feelings to others

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akathesia

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restlessness

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acute dystonia

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involuntary muscle spasms and abnormal postures

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cyclothymia

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fluctuating mood but not enough to be bipolar

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dysthymia

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chronic low mood - persistent mild depression

Psychiatry (4 decks)

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