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agoraphobia

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fear of going out to public places

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anhedonia

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less ability to experience pleasure, lack energy or motivation

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anorexia nervosa

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severe food restriction

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antisocial personality disorder

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impulsive, manipulative, failure to accept social norms

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anxiety disorders

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excessive apprehension and anxiety

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autism

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developmental disorder, social and emotional deficits, repetitive behaviours and interest.

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availability heuristic

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estimated probability of an event is based on prevalence of memory of it

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binge-eating disorder

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binges from stress and then purging

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bipolar disorder

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manic depressive disorder, 1 or more manic episodes and depression

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bulimia nervosa

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binging and vomiting/purging

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catatonic schizophrenia

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striking motor disturbances

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comorbidity

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coexistence of two or more disorders

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concordance rate

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the percentage of twins or relatives that have the same disorder

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conjunction fallacy

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estimate that the odds of two things occurring at once is greater than one happening alone

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culture-bound disorder

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syndromes found in only a few groups

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cyclothymic disorder

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chronic but mild bipolar symptoms

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delusions

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out of touch with reality, false beliefs

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distinguishing one illness from another

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diagnosis

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disorganized schizophrenia

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severe deterioration of adaptive behaviour, babbling, giggling

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dissociative amnesia

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sudden loss of memory of personal information, too extensive to be normal forgetting, occur after trauma

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dissociative disorders

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people lose contact with bits of their consciousness or memory, disrupts sense of identity

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dissociative fugue

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loss of memory for their entire lives, loss of sense of personal identity. Can remember things like driving

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dissociative identity disorder (DID) multiple personality disorder

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occurs when two or more personalities coexistence in one person. Personalities are unaware of each other

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dysthymic disorder

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mild, chronic depression that is insufficient to be diagnosed as major depression

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eating disorders

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preoccupation with weight and control, severe disturbances to eating

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epidemiology

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the study of the distribution of mental/physical disorders in a population

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apparent cause and developmental history of an illness

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etiology

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expressed emotion (EE)

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relative of a schizophrenic patient and how much emotionally over-involved attitudes they exhibit towards the patient

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hallucinations

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hearing voices, sensory perceptions that occur without a stimulus

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generalized anxiety disorder

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(free floating anxiety) chronic, high level of anxiety not tied to any specific threat

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major depressive disorder

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persistent feelings of sadness, loss of interest in previously joyful things

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Model that believes abnormal behaviour is a disease

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medical model

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mood disorders

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disturbed emotions, lead to disturbing physical and social thought processes

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negative symptoms of schizophrenia

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behavioural deficits, flattened emotions, social withdrawal…

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OCD

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uncontrollable unwanted thoughts and senseless rituals

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panic disorder

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unexpected and recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety

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paranoid schizophrenia

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delusions of persecution and grandeur

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personality disorder

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extreme and inflexible personality traits, distress and impaired social functioning

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phobic disorder

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persistent/irrational fear of object/situation with no realistic danger

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positive symptoms for schizophrenia

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behavioural excess, hallucinations, dreams…

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postpartum depression

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depression that can occur after childbirth (within 4 weeks), can also include mania, higher when there is less social support

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prevalence

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percentage of a population that has a specific disorder in a time period

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forecast of the course of an illness, what might happen

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prognosis

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representative heuristic

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estimated probably of an event based on similarity to a prototype

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seasonal affective disorders

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depression that follows a seasonal pattern, less sunlight, melatonin production, circadian rhythms

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schizophrenic disorders

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disturbed thought, marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, deteriorating adaptive behaviour

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undifferentiated schizophrenia

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cannot be placed in one category, mix of symptoms

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Nancy Andreasen

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subtypes of positive/negative schizophrenia

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hi

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Martin Antony and Karen Rowa

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hi

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Aaron Beck

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Robert Hare

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hi

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Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

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hi

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David Rosenhan

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hi

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Regina Schuller

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psychology and canadian law,

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Martin Seligman

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learned helplessness, giving up with unavoidable events, people who are pessimistic are more likely to be depressed

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Thomas Szasz

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Person that says abnormal behaviour is really just deviation from social norms rather than an illness

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criterion of abnormal behaviour

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deviance, maladaptive behaviour, personal distress

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PTSD

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caused by a traumatic event,, higher prevalence in women

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echolia

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schiz children repeat what they hear

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