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Abnormal Psychology Clinical and Scientific Perspective by Lyons and Martin

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Unconscious   show
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show In Freudian theory, the erotic attachment to opposite-sex parent, involving feelings of competition and hostility toward same-sex parent, and fears of retaliation(castration anxiety in boys) from the same-sex parent.  
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Defense Mechanisms   show
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Repression   show
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Reaction Formation   show
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show Defense mechanism in which person separates emotions from intellectual content, or otherwise separates experiences that would be anxiety arousing if permitted to occur together.  
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Displacement   show
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Projection   show
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show Refers to unobservable mental events such as ideas, wishes, and unconscious.  
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show In Freudian theory, that part of the mind form which instinctual impulses originate  
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ego   show
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superego   show
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libido   show
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show In Freudian theory,refers to an unusual investment of libidinal energy at a certain psychosexual stage  
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show In Freudian theory, refers to a return to some earlier stage of psychosexual development in the face of some current frustration.  
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Phobia   show
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Free association   show
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show In psychoanalysis, the phenomenon in which patients unconsciously resist gaining insight into unconscious motives and conflicts.  
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Transference   show
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Behaviorism   show
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Reinforcement   show
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Primary Reinforcers   show
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Punishers   show
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show The contingent presentation of a pleasant result, which strengthens subsequent responding  
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show The contingent removal of a unpleasant stimulus, which strengthens subsequent responding  
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show A stimulus that serves as a signal that a certain response will lead to a reinforcement  
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show Experimental design in which new reinforcement contingencies are instated for a period of time, followed by reinstatement of the old reinforcement contingencies, and finally the installment of the original, new contingencies; sometimes a fourth reversal i  
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show Teaching a behavior by performing the behavior and having the learner imitate it  
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show A counterconditioning procedure in which subjects are exposed to a gradually stronger anxiety-producing stimuli while maintaining a state of relaxation  
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Covert sensitization   show
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Chromosomes   show
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Genes   show
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show Total set of inherited characteristics determined by a person's genetic makeup  
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show Observed characteristics that result from the interaction between genotype and environmental influences  
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show Twins resulting from the splitting of a single fertilized ovum who have exactly the same genetic makeup.  
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show Twins that result from the simultaneous fertilization of two separate ova-such a pair has the same degree of genetic similarity as any two non-twin siblings born to the same parents  
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Phenylketonuria(PKU)   show
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Neurons   show
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Dendrites   show
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Axon   show
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Synapse   show
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show Chemical substances released into the synapse that enable transmission of impulses from one neuron to another  
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Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT   show
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show Procedures that attempt to treat abnormal behavior by surgical intervention on the brain.  
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show Proposed that the disorder was caused by excessive dopamine activity in the brain (Hence, DA-blocking drugs like Thorazine were useful.)  
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show Proposed that the mood disorder resulted from a relative depletion of NE in the brain(Hence-MAO-I drugs were useful because they enhanced NE activity.)  
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show Occasional long term side effect of phenothiazine treatment of schizophrenia that involves rhythmical, stereotyped movements and lip smacking  
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show Emphasis on viewing people as whole human beings rather than analyzing them in an impersonal fashion  
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