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Psychological Disorder

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a condition characterized by distressing, impairing, and/or irregular thoughts, feelings, behaviors

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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guide to the diagnosis of mental disorders

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Confidentiality

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info between a patient and a therapist that can’t be shared

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Insanity Defense

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a defense that someone can plead in a trail

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Medical (Biological) Explanation of Abnormal Behavior

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disorders are a result of biological issues

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Psychodynamic Explanation of Abnormal Behavior

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disorders come from unresolved childhood conflicts

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Humanistic Explanation of Abnormal Behavior

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individuals are responsible for their own behavior

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Cognitive Explanation of Abnormal Behavior

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disorders are caused by thoughts and beliefs

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Behavioral Explanation of Abnormal Behavior

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disorders are learned responses (reinforcement)

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Socio-Cultural Explanation of Abnormal Behavior

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disorders are shaped by family, society, culture

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Neurodevelopmental Disorder

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group of conditions in which growth of brain is affected

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Neurocognitive Disorder

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decreased mental function due to disease other than a psychiatric illness

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ADHD Symptoms

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  • unable to sit still
  • constant fidgeting
  • can’t concentrate
  • excessive talking
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Autism Symptoms

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  • difficulty communicating
  • must follow certain routine
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Alzheimer’s Disease Symptoms

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  • mental decline
  • confusion
  • delusions
  • forgetfulness
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Delirium Symptoms

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  • confusion
  • difficulty paying attention
  • difficulty thinking
  • drowsiness
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Hallucinations

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an experience involving perception of something not actually there

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Delusions

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a false belief/judgement about external reality

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Catatonia

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irregular movement and behavior coming from a disturbed mental state

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Bipolar I

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more highs than lows

energetic and then depressed states

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Manic Episode

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state characterized by high energy, excitement, decreased need for sleep, a high

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Rapid Cycling

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presence of at least 4 mood episodes in previous 12 months that meet the criteria for manic, hypomanic, or major depressive episode

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Bipolar II

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more lows than highs

energetic and then depressed states

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Cyclothymic Disorder

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exaggerated feeling of happiness, very talkative, does risky behavior

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MDD Symptoms

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  • irritability
  • hard to sleep
  • hopelessness
  • depression
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Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Symptoms

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  • down most of the day
  • losing interest in hobbies
  • low energy
  • sleeping too much
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Persistent Depression (PDD) Symptoms

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  • sadness
  • lack of energy
  • low self-esteem
  • trouble focusing
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Premenstrual Dysmorphic Disorder Symptoms

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  • depression
  • irritability
  • moodiness
  • feeling overwhelmed
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Generalized Anxiety (GAD) Symptoms

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  • restlessness
  • trouble concentrating
  • muscle tension
  • trouble sleeping
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Panic Disorder Symptoms

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  • sudden episodes of intense anxiety
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Phobias

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extreme fear of something

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Agoraphobia

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fear of situations where one has felt loss of control/panic

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Social Phobia

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fear of social situations

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Selective Mutism Symptoms

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  • nervous
  • socially awkward
  • rude
  • clingy
  • shy
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OCD Symptoms

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  • obsessive thoughts
  • compulsive behaviors
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Hoarding Disorder Symptoms

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  • can’t get rid of possessions
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PTSD Symptoms

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  • haunted memories
  • nightmares
  • social withdrawal
  • jumpy anxiety
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Dissociative Disorder

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condition that involves experiencing a loss of connection between thoughts, memories, surroundings, behaviors, identity

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Dissociative Amnesia Symptoms

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  • memory loss that can’t be explained
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Dissociative Amnesia With Fugue Symptoms

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  • memory loss that can’t be explained
  • wonders away from home
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Depersonalization Disorder

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you often feel that you’re seeing yourself from outside your body

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Derealization Disorder

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you sense that things around you aren’t real

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Symptoms

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existence of two or more identities

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Somatic Symptom Disorder

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symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause

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Somatic Symptom Disorder Symptoms

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  • worry
  • depression
  • anxiety
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Illness Anxiety Disorder (IAD) Disorder Symptoms

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  • constantly thinking you have a disease
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Conversion Disorder Symptoms

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  • loss of sense without known cause
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Factitious Disorder Symptoms

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  • stomach pain
  • seizures
  • passing out
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Anorexia Nervosa Symptoms

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  • altered body image
  • low body weight
  • fear of being fat
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Bulimia Nervosa Symptoms

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  • normal/above average body weight
  • episodes of binge eating and then purposely vomiting
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Paranoid Symptoms

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  • grudges
  • isolation
  • sensitive to criticism
  • not trust others
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Schizoid Symptoms

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  • doesn’t enjoy close relationships
  • doesn’t like many activities
  • lacks close friends
  • indifferent to praise/criticisms
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Schizotypal Symptoms

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  • unusual behavior, thinking,, manners
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Histrionic Symptoms

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  • constantly seeking attention
  • inappropriate behavior
  • flirtatious
  • manipulative
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Narcissistic Symptoms

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  • lots of confidence
  • lack of empathy
  • sense of specialness
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Borderline Symptoms

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  • fear of abandonment
  • unclear self-image
  • impulsive
  • self-harm
  • feeling of empathy
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Antisocial Symptoms

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  • act witty and charming
  • break law repeatedly
  • not show guilt
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Avoidant Symptoms

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  • need to be well liked
  • lack of pleasure in hobbies
  • anxiety about saying/doing wrong things
  • people pleaser
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Dependent Symptoms

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  • uncomfortable when alone
  • fear of being abandoned
  • needing assurance
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Psychiatrist

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medical doctor who specializes in mental health

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Clinical Psychologist

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access, diagnose, and treat mental, emotional, behavior disorders

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Systematic Desensitization Therapy Steps

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  • relax your muscles
  • make a list of your fears and rank them
  • slowly expose them to yourself
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Flooding Therapy Steps

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expose yourself to fear for a long time until you calm down

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Aversive Conditioning Therapy Steps

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do something you enjoy while exposed to fear

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Behavior Modification Therapy

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  • alteration of behavioral patterns
  • use of biofeedback and positive/negative reinforcement
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Token Economics Therapy

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  • based on operant learning
  • rewarding tokens as a reward
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Modeling

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an observer imitates a role model

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Shaping

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training a learned behavior

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Biofeedback

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  • mind-body technique
  • use to control body’s functions (heart rate, breathing, muscle responses)
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Cognitive Restructuring

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replace stressful thoughts with less stressful

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Albert Ellis’ Rational Emotive Therapy (RET)

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helps you identify irrational beliefs/negative thought patterns that lead to emotional/behavioral issues

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RET Actions

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self guided sequence of movements to reach a goal

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RET Beliefs

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internal state that is often related to a particular response in the form of a statement or action

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RET Consequences

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response to bad behavior

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Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Triad Therapy

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focuses on distortions/thought processes that can lead to negative behaviors

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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alter unwanted behavior patterns or treat mood disorders

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Insight Therapy

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interactions to help client’s self-knowledge and to promote healthy changes in personality

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Free Association

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patients can say whatever they want

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Dream Interpretation

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interpretation of dreams to determine meanings

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Resistance

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opposition of therapy process

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Transference

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someone redirects their feelings

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Catharsis

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releasing negative emotions

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Psychodynamic and Interpersonal Therapy

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helps people with a range of different problems

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Client Centered Therapy

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non-directed approach to talk therapy (client takes the reins)

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Unconditioned Positive Regard

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showing complete support

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Genuineness

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intentionals attribute of someone’s character that is honest and thoughtful

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Active Listening

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full attention to client

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Empathetic Understanding

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imaging oneself in a person’s situation to understand them

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Self-Actualization

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individual reaches full potential

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Gestalt Therapy

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increasing a person’s awareness, freedom, and self-direction

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Metacognition

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  • thinking about thinking
  • control of personal thought processes
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Psychopharmacotherapy

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use of psychoactive drugs in systematic treatment or control of mental disorders

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Antipsychotics

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  • type of drug
  • used to treat psychosis
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Antianxiety Therapy

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  • type of drug
  • used to treat anxiety
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Antidepressant

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  • type of drug
  • used to treat depression
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

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  • involves sending an electric current through the brain
  • used to treat severe depression, schizophrenia
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Psychosurgery

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  • disconnection of brain tissue
  • alter cognitive states
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Social Cognition

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ability to understand mental states such as beliefs, emotions of others

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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observers underemphasize situational/environmental factors for behavior of actor while emphasizing personality factors
ex. she’s 10 mins late so she must be lazy (but there’s a lot of traffic)

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Actor-Observer Bias

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people often regard situations in which he/she is involved as caused by external factors and to regard situation he/she observes as caused by actions of those involved
ex. you fall on the concrete and blame the hole, but when you see others fall, you think they’re clumsy

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Blaming the Victim

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puts responsibility on the victim
ex. you were asking for it with that shirt

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Just-World Hypothesis

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world is fair, that moral standings of our actions will determine our outcomes

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Self-Serving Bias

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  • attribute successes to our character/actions
  • attribute failures into external circumstances
    ex. I got 100 on the test! I’m so smart
    ex. I got 60 on the test, the teacher didn’t prepare me
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Halo Effect

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overall impression of a person influences how we feel/think about our character
ex. you see a pretty person, you assume they’re smart, kind, etc

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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expectation that makes you act in ways that make expectation come true
ex. you think you failed the test and then you actually did

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Attitude

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feelings that affect our reactions to other people, objects, events

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Elaboration Likelihood Model

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theory identifying two ways to persuade: central route/peripheral route

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Central Route of Persuation

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influencing attitudes using evidence and logic
“you should buy this because it’s been proven more effective”

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Peripheral Route of Persuasion

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appealing to fears, desires
“people who buy this are happier and more attractive”

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Cognitive Dissonance

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when our actions are not in harmony with our attitudes
ex. you want to be healthy, but have a bad diet

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Normative Social Influence

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individual conforms to majority

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Informational Social Influence

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individual wants to be right, or do the right thing

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Stanford Prison Experiment

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  • examined effects of authority and powerless
  • guards became abusive/authoritarian while prisoners became submissive/emotionally distressed
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Milgram Experiment

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  • how far people would go in obeying an instruction that harmed another person
  • most continued to 450 volts
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Compliance

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action of person agreeing to something when told

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Door in the Face

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making a large request knowing it will be turned down and then making a smaller request

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Foot in the Door

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making smaller requests to get a big one

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That’s Not All Commitment

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presenting a large request but offering an additional benefit

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Low-Ball Commitment

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item is offered at lower price so buyer will commit and then price increases

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Social Groups

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people who interact with another, share similar interests

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Norms

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rules about how acceptable something is

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Social Facilitation

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people perform better when there’s a presence of others

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Social Inhibition

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stable tendency to inhibit expression of emotions and behaviors in social interaction

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Social Loafing

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effort is lower when in a group

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Deindividuation

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people lose their identity and focus on the group as a whole

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Group Polarization

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decisions of groups tend to be more extreme than an individual’s decision

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Group Think

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a group reaches a decision without critical thinking or consequences

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Social Trap

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short-term gains, long-term loss
ex. snoozing your alarm in the morning makes it harder to get up

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Reciprocity Norm

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repay in kindness for what others have done for you

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Bystander Effect

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people are less likely to help someone when there’s a lot of people around

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Diffusion of Responsibility

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the more people, the less likely someone will help the victim

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In Group

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group of people you belong in

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Out Group

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anyone who doesn’t belong in your group

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Prejudice

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an unjustified attitude toward a group

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Discrimination

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unjustified behavior applied to members of a group

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Stereotypes

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generalized belief about a group

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Scapegoat Theory

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when bad things happen, prejudice offers an outlet
ex. Hitler

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Ethnocentrism

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see the world through lens of your culture

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Out Group Homogeneity

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illusion that members of an outgroup are all similar

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Contact Theory

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bringing members from different groups together to reduce prejudice

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Superordinate Goal

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goal that takes place over conditioned goals
ex. getting healthier by going to the gym CONSISTENTLY

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Mere-Exposure Effect

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people prefer familiar things over unfamiliar things

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Attraction

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taking interest in another person

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Altruism

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unselfish regard for welfare of other people
ex. giving your food to a hungry person even though you’re hungry

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Aggression

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behavior with intent of harming another person/thing

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Instrumental Aggression

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aggressive behavior meant to achieve a goal
ex. terrorist

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Hostile Aggression

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“hot” impulsive behavior motivated by desire to hurt someone

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