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What is the branch of psychology that studies the patterns of growth and change that occur through life   show
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the unfolding of biologically predetermined patterns of behavior   show
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show nature  
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what referes to environmental influences   show
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the issue of the degree to which environment and heredity influence behavior   show
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compares ppl of different ages at the same point in time   show
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show longitudinal research  
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show sequential research  
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rod shaped structures that contain all basic hereditary information   show
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the parts of chromosomes through which genetic information is transmitted   show
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the new cell formed by the union of an egg and sperm   show
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a developed zygote that has a heart, a brain and other organs   show
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show fetus  
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show age of viability  
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show sensitive/critical period  
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show teratogens  
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automatic involuntary responses to incoming stimuli   show
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show attachment  
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show ainsworth strange situation  
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these type of children employ the mother as a kind of home base, explore freely but return to the mother occasionally   show
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these children do not cry when the mother leaves and they seem to avoid her when she returns   show
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these children display anxiety before they are seperated and are upset when the mother leaves but they may show ambivalent reactions to her return   show
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show disorganized-disoriented  
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parents who are rigid and punitive and value unquestioniong obedience from their children   show
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these parents give their children relaxed or inconsistant direction and alothough they are warm require little of them   show
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these parents are firm, set clear limits, reason with their children, and explain things to them   show
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show uninvolved  
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the basic innate disposition that emerges early in life   show
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show psychosocial development  
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show trust-vs-mistrust stage  
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according to erikson the period during which toddlers age 1.5-3 yr develop independence and autonomy if exploration and freedom are encouraged, shame and self doubt if they are restricted   show
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according to erikson, the period during which children age 3-6 experience conflict between independence of action and the sometimes negative results of that action   show
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the process by which a childs understand of the world changes as a function of age and experience   show
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according to paiget, the stage from birth to 2 yr when a child has little competence in representing the environment by using images, languages, or other symbols   show
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show object permanence  
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show preoperational stage  
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show concrete operational stage  
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amount, volume, or length of an object doesnt change when its shape changes   show
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the way in which ppl take in, use, and store infomation   show
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an awareness and understanding of ones own cognitive processes   show
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the level at which a child can almost but not fully comprehend or perform a task on his or her own   show
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the third leading cause of death of adolescents in the us   show
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show midlife transition  
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dissatisfaction with life   show
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the study of older adults and aging   show
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human cells have a built in time limit to their reproduction; after a ceratin time they are no longer able to divide   show
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show wear and tear theories of aging  
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show fluid intelligence  
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accumulation of information, skills, and strategies learned through experience   show
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show alzheimers disease  
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show disengagement theory of aging  
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successful aging means maintaining the interest and activites you had during middle age   show
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show life review  
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show denial  
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angry at ppl in good health around them, at medical professionals, god   show
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show bargaining  
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show depression  
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show acceptance  
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show elisabeth kubler-ross  
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show psychotherapy  
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show biomedical  
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therapy that seeks to bring unressolved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses from the unconscious into the conscious, where patients may deal with the problems more effectively   show
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show psychoanalysis  
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the technique that asks people to say aloud whatever comes to mind, regardless of its apparent irrelevance or senselessness   show
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show manifest content  
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show latent content  
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the inability or unwillingness to discuss or reveal particular memories, thoughts, or motivations is known as what in freudian theory   show
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in freudian theory the transfer of feelings of love or anger to a psychoanalyst is called   show
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treatment approaches that build on the basic processes of learning and assume that normal and abnormal behavior are both learned are called   show
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show aversive conditioning  
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show systemic desensitization  
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show exposure  
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show contingency contract  
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show observational learning  
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a form of treatment in which the focus is on getting people to accept who they are regardless of whether it matches their ideal   show
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show cognitive treatment approaches  
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a treatment approach that incorporates basic principles of learning to change the way people think is known as   show
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a form of therapy that attempts to restructure a persons belief system into a more realistic rational and logical set of views by challenging dysfunctional beliefs that maintain irrational behavior   show
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show humanistic  
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show person centered therapy  
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expressing acceptance and understanding, reguardless of the feelins and attitudes the client express   show
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show empathy  
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short-term therapy that focuses on the context of current social relationships is known as   show
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jane has entered treatment for substance abuse issue, part of her treatment includes meeting with other ppl who have the same substance abuse issues, this is likely what type of therapy   show
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show spontaneous remission  
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where data from a large nujmber of studies are statistically combined to create impressions of the data that is being studied   show
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show eclectic  
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show drug  
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show antipsychotic drugs  
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medications that improve a severely depressed patients mood and feeling of well-being are known as   show
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show mood stabilizers  
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show antianxiety drugs  
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show electroconvulsive therapy  
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a depression treatment in which a precise magnetic pulse is directed to a specific area of the brain is known as   show
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a branch of psychology that focuses on the prevention and minimization of psychological disorders in the community is called   show
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the transfer of former mental patients from institutions to the community   show
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the scientific study of how peoples thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by others is called   show
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evaluations of a particular person, behavior, belief or concept   show
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show central route processing  
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message interpretation characterized by consideration of the source and related general information, rather than of the message itself is called   show
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the conflict that occurs when a person holds two contradictory attitudes or thoughts is called   show
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show social cognition  
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show schemas  
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show impression formation  
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the major traits considered in forming immpressions of others are called   show
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show attribution theory  
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show situtational causes of behavior  
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percieved causes of behavior that are based on internal traits or personality factors are called   show
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a phenomenon in which an initial understanding that a person has positive traits is used to infer other uniformly positive characteristics   show
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show assumed similarity bias  
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the tendency to attribute personal success to personal factors (skill, ability, or effort) an to attribute failure to factors outside onself   show
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show fundamental attribution error  
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show social influence  
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show norms  
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show conformity  
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the behaviors that are associated with people in a given position   show
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show compliance  
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show inducstrial orginizational psychology  
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a change in behavior in response to the commands of others   show
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show stereotype  
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show prejudice  
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behavior directed toward individuals on the basis of their emmbership in a particular group   show
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show the implicit association test (IAT)  
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show passionate love  
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show companionate love  
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show aggression  
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show catharsis  
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this type of behavior is another way to describe helping behavior   show
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medical problems influenced by an interaction of psychological, emotional, and physical difficulties   show
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a theory developed by Hans Selye that suggest that a persons response to a stressor consists of three stages, alarm and mobilization, resistance, and exhaustion   show
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show psychoneuroimmunology  
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the efforts to control, reduce, or learn to tolerate the threats that lead to stress   show
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this occurs when people conclude that unpleasant or aversive stimuli cant be controlled, this view of the world becomes so ingrained they cease trying to rememdy the aversive circumstances even if they actually can exert some influence on the situtation   show
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a mutual network of caring, interested others is know as   show
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the pattern of enduring characteristics that produce consistency and individuality in a given person is a description of   show
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show psychodynamic  
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the part of the personality, according to freud, that contains the memories, knowledge, beliefs, feelins, urges, drives, and instincts of which the individual is not aware   show
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the raw, unorganized, inborn part of personality, whose sole purpose is to reduce tension created by primitive drives related to hunger, sex, aggression, and irrational impulses   show
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the id is also known as the   show
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the part of the personality, according to freud, that provides a buffer between the id and the outside world is known as   show
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the ego is also known as the   show
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according to freudian theory this represents the rights and wrongs of society as taught and modeled by a persons parents, teachers, and other significant individuals   show
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according to freudian theory these are conflicts or concerns that persist beyond the developmental period in which they first occur   show
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a childs sexual interest in his or her opposite sex parent, typically resolved through identification with the same sex parent, from freuds work, is know as   show
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show identification  
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show collective unconscious  
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show archetypes  
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show superiority  
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show inferiority complex  
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a model of personality that seeks to identify the basic traits necessary to describe personality   show
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show traits  
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show factor analysis  
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show self efficacy  
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show self-esteem  
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show temperament  
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show self actualization  
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show unconditional positive regard  
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show psychological tests  
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the measurement consistency of a test, meaning that it yields the same result each time it is administered to a specific person or group   show
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show validity  
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show norms  
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show self report measure  
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show behavioral assessment  
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the capacity to understand the world, think rationally, and use resources effectively is known as   show
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show fluid intelligence  
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show crystalized intelligence  
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this approach asserts that the way people store material in memory and use the material to solve intellectual tasks provides the most accurate measures of intelligence   show
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according to robert sternberg, this type of intelligence is related to overall success in living   show
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show emotional intelligence  
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show fetal alcohol syndrome  
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this results from the presence of an extra chromosomes   show
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mental retardation in which no apparent biological defect exists, but there is a history of retardation in the family   show
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show gifted  
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a test that does not discriminate against members of any minority group is called a what IQ test   show
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show heritability  
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behavior that causes people to experience distress and prevents them from functioning in their daily lives is known as   show
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this perspective suggests that when an individual displays symptoms of abnormal behavior, the fundamental cause will be found through a physical examination of the individual   show
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show behavioral  
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show psychoanalytic  
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show cognitive  
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show humanistic  
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this perspective assumes that peoples behavior, both normal and abnormal, is shaped by the kind of family,, group, society, and culture in which they live   show
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show DSM-IV-TR  
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show anxiety  
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show anxiety disorder  
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Nick is terrified of spiders, if he sees a picture of a spider he starts to sweat and tremble, he is likely suffering from   show
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show panic  
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this disorder is the experience of long-term persistent anxiety and worry   show
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this disorder is characterized by unwanted thoughts or feelings that a perosn must carry out actions against his or her will   show
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a persistent, unwanted thought or idea that keeps recurring   show
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show compulsion  
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show behavioral  
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this perspective suggests that anxiety disorders grow out of a persons inappropriate and inaccurate thoughts and beliefs about circumstances in his or her world   show
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these disorders are psychological difficulties that take on a physical form, but for which there is no medical cause   show
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a disorder in which people have a constant fear of illness and preoccupation with their health   show
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show conversion disorder  
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a disorder in which a person displays characteristics of two or more distinct personalities   show
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show dissociative amnesia  
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show dissociative  
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a form of amnesia in which the individual leaves home and sometimes assumes a new identity   show
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show mood disorders  
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show major depression  
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an extended state of intense, wild elation   show
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a disorder in which a person alternates between periods of euphoric feelings of mania and periods of depression   show
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a learned expectation that events in ones life are uncontrollable and that one cant escape from the situation   show
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a class of disorders in which serve distortion of reality occurs   show
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show personality disorder  
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a disorder in which individuals show no regard for the moral and ethical rules of society or the rights of others   show
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a personality disturbance characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance   show
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show ADHD  
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a severe developmental disability that impairs children's ability to communicate and relate to others   show
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