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how do professionals decide if an unusual
behavior is a disorder?
they look to see if they have an unusual pattern with
thoughts, feeling and actions
TERM 2
ADHD is a consequence of what, according to
the national institute of mental health
DEFINITION 2
high energy, to much sugar, and poor schooling
TERM 3
how does the medical model explain
psychological disorders
DEFINITION 3
the concept that diseases in the case psychological disorders
have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated and
cured
TERM 4
insanity is a term used by what
system
DEFINITION 4
u.s. justice system
TERM 5
Define anxiety, what makes it become a
disorder
DEFINITION 5
being anxious, it becomes a disorder if it interupts our lifes
and make it hard to live life.
define a generalized anxiety
disorder
a person is unexplainably and continually tense and uneasy
TERM 7
define a phobia and give an
example
DEFINITION 7
an anxiety disorder marked by a persistant irrational fear
and avoidance of a specific object or situatoin
TERM 8
defind OCD
DEFINITION 8
an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive
thoughts (obsessions)/ actions (complusion)
TERM 9
define a compulsoin
DEFINITION 9
repetitive behavior, such as exessive hand washing
TERM 10
define PTSD
DEFINITION 10
an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories,
people who come back from war
define a major depressive disorder and give
an example
a mood disorder in which a person experience in the absence
of drugs or a medical conditoin two or more weeks of
significantly depressed moods
TERM 17
depression
DEFINITION 17
the feeling of unmotivated, neggative sad.
TERM 18
which gender is most likely to suffer from
depressoin?
DEFINITION 18
female
TERM 19
schizophrenia
DEFINITION 19
mental disorder characterized by abnormalities in the
perception or expression of reality.
TERM 20
anti social personality
DEFINITION 20
lack of conscience for wrong doing, even toward friends and
family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever
con artist
how are the rates of increasing violent crimes
in western countries explained?
life is more stressful for the people
TERM 22
psychotherapy
DEFINITION 22
treatment involving psychtech. consits of interactions
between a trained therapist and someone seeking to
overcome a problem.
TERM 23
psychoanalysis
DEFINITION 23
freud believed the patients free associatoins, resistances,
dreams and transferences and the therapists interpreactoin
TERM 24
free associatoin
DEFINITION 24
where the therapist is out of view and you just talk
TERM 25
interpersonal therapy
DEFINITION 25
brief variation of psychodynamic therapy, has been effective
in treating depression. gain insight into their difficulites
define cognitive therapy and give an example
teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinknig and
acting, based on the assumptions that thoughts interven
between events and our emotional reactions
TERM 32
define family therapy. what is its primary
assumptoins
DEFINITION 32
therapy that treaths teh family as a system. views an
individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed
at, other family members
TERM 33
what strategy is used by alcholoics
anonymous?
DEFINITION 33
cognitive or "motivatoinal therapy"
TERM 34
define the procedure of meta-analysis
DEFINITION 34
statisticaly combining the results of many diff. research study
TERM 35
define the procedure of meta-analysis
DEFINITION 35
statistically combining the results of many diff. research
study
define cognitive therapy. what disorders is it
most effective in treating? define SAD
seasonal affective disorder and its treatment.
the way people think. winter depressoin not enough sunlight.
give daily dosage of light.
TERM 37
explain how the placebo effect can affect
therapy
DEFINITION 37
it can help figure out if things are just all in peoples head of if
something actually works.
TERM 38
psychopharmacolgy
DEFINITION 38
the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
TERM 39
what kinds of drugs are useful in treating
schizophrenia
DEFINITION 39
antipsychotic drugs
TERM 40
what drug has been found effective in
treating bipolar disorder
DEFINITION 40
mood-stabilizing drugs.
define the foot in the door phenomenon and
give an example
the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small
request to comply later with a larger request
TERM 47
why is the use of diagnostic labels criticized
DEFINITION 47
because it labels people and makes people look at them
different like they are freaks
TERM 48
give an example of suggestibility as
illustrated in this chapter
DEFINITION 48
many people committed suicide after marylyn manore did
TERM 49
conformity
DEFINITION 49
adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group
standard
TERM 50
what is discriminatoin and give an example
DEFINITION 50
unjustifiable negative behavior towards a group and its
members
scapegoat theory
the theory that prejudice offers and outleft for anger by
providing someone to blame
TERM 52
modeling violence results in what kind of
behavior
DEFINITION 52
more agressiveness
TERM 53
research finds that children who play violent
video games display what kinds of behavior
compared to children who do not play the
violent games?
DEFINITION 53
they show more aggresion and more violence towards people
and life
TERM 54
define the mere exposure effect and give an
example
DEFINITION 54
the phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli
increases liking of them.
TERM 55
our first impressions are most influnced by
what factor after proximity
DEFINITION 55
a physical appearance
what is conciliatoin
when conflicts intensify images become more sterotyped
judgments, more rigid and communicatoin more diffuicult or
even impossible
TERM 62
graduated and reciprocated initiatives
intesion reduction-a strategy designed to
decreases international tensions
DEFINITION 62
graduated and reciprocated initiatives intesion reduction-a
strategy designed to decreases international tensions
