Psychology

Question 1

Mental Health

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condition of an individual regarding their emotional, social and psychological
well-being

Question 2

Depression

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mood disorder which causes constant feelings of sadness and loss of interest

Question 3

Anxiety

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nervous disorder characterized by excessive uneasiness and apprehension

Question 4

Bipolar Disorder

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Brain disorder which causes unusual shifts in mood

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Answer 5

brain disorder which is associated with an ongoing pattern of inattention or hyperactivity-impulsivity

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Autism Spectrum Disorder

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brain disorders associated with difficulties in social interaction, communication, and repetative behaviors

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Schizophrenia

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mental disorders characterized by faulty perceptions, inappropriate actions and feeling and withdrawal from reality

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Personality Disorder

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mental health problems which cause an individual to have rigid and unhealthy patterns of thinking, functioning and behaving

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Maladaptive Behaviors

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behavior which inhibit an individual’s ability to adapt to a particular situatio

Question 10

Stigma

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set of negative and often unfair beliefs which a society has about something

Question 11

Psychotherapy

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therapeutic treatment of mental illness provided by a trained mental health professional

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Bias

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Tendency to favor one person, group thing or point of view over another

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Filtering

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The way a person can ignore all of the positive and good things in life to focus solely on the negative.

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Polarized thinking /Black-and-white thinking

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An all-or-nothing thinking, with no room for complexity of nuance-everything’s either black or white, never shades of grey

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Overgeneralization

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Taking a single incident or point in time and using it as the sole piece of evidence for a broach conclusion

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Jumping to conclusions

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A distortion involving faulty reasoning in how one makes conclusions though a tendency to be sure of something without any evidence at all.

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Catastrophizing / Magnifying or Minimizing

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Expecting that the worst will happen or has happened, based on an incident that is nowhere near as catastrophic as it is made out to be.

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Personalization

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A distortion where an individual believes that everything they do has an impact on external events or other people, no matter how irrational that may be.

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Control fallacies

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Feeling like everything that happens to you is either a result of purely external forces or entirely due to your own actions.

Question 20

Fallacy of fairness

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Belief in extreme fairness despite life not being fair.

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Blaming

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A method of assigning responsibility to other when something goes wrong.

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“Shoulds”

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Implicit or explicit rules we have about how we and other should behave. When others break our rules, we are upset. When we break our own rules, we feel guilty.

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Emotional reasoning

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Reasoning based on your emotions. Ex. “I feel it, therefore it must be true”

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Fallacy of change

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Expecting other people to change as it suits us.

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Global labeling / mislabeling

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An extreme form of generalization in which we generalize one or two instance of qualities into a global judgement.

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Always being right

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Distortion making us thinking we must always be write.

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Heaven’s Reward Fallecy

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Belief that any sacrifice or self-denial will pay off.

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Journalling

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A Technique that allows one to gather one’s mood and thoughts.

Question 29

Unraveling cognitive distortions

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Identifying the cognitive distortions you are dealing with.

Question 30

Cognitive restuctuting