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show Consistent set Of behavioral characteristics that people display over time & across situations. It distinguishes individuals from each other.  
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Personality view types   show
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show One thinks and behaves consistently across situations.  
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show Our thoughts and behaviors change with the situation.  
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Interactionist view   show
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show Openess, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism. (OCEAN)  
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Openess   show
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show competence, order, dutifulness, achievement striving, deliberation, self-discipline.Undependable - Dependable  
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show gregariousness (social), assertiveness, activity, excitement seeking, positive emotions. Withdrawn - Outgoing  
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Agreeableness   show
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show anxiety, hostility, depression, self confidence, impulsiveness, vulnerability. Stable - Unstable  
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Three-Factor Theory of Personality   show
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Psychoticism/Nonconformity   show
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Eysenck   show
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Temperament   show
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show Sociability, Emotionality, Impulsivity.  
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Sociability   show
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Emotionality   show
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show Ability to respond to stimuli immediately, without reflection or concern for consequences.  
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personality traits   show
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show -different numbers of factors -nearly all have extroversion and neuroticism -useful for conceptualizing personality -not very effective in predicting behavior  
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What is one way to measure personality?   show
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Projective tests   show
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show -extraverts are less arousable -neuroticism may be related to the sensitivity of emotional parts of the brain -underarousal of nervous system may be related to risk taking or criminal behavior  
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show Normal awareness, Everyday thoughts  
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Preconscious mind   show
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Unconscious mind   show
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Free Association   show
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show unconsciously strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives operating on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification. Is present at birth. Home to sexual and aggressive drive. Governed by the pleasure principle  
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show Wanting immediate gratification of needs  
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show provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations. This develops in childhood. Home to morality and conscience. Governed by the ego ideal.  
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Ego Ideal   show
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show Largely conscious, ego functions as the “executive” and mediates the demands of id and superego. This develops in childhood (before superego). Acts as a referee between id and superego. Governed by the reality principle  
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show Assess what is realistically possible in the world  
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show Oral stage (birth to 1½ years), Anal stage (1½ to 3 years), Phallic stage (3 to 6 years): Castration anxiety & Oedipus complex, Latency period (6 to puberty), Genital stage (puberty onward).  
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Oral Stage   show
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Anal Stage   show
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show Pleasures come from the clitoris and penis, Gratification from masturbation, Developmental Task: successful identification with same sex parent  
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Oedipus Complex   show
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Electra Complex   show
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Latency Period   show
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Genital Stage   show
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show Woman who disagreed with Freud, Believed there was no penis envy but in reality there was Privilege Envy; Women wanted the privileges of men not a penis  
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Unconscious attempts to silence the id   show
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Displacement   show
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Regression   show
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Projection   show
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show offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one’s actions  
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Reaction formation   show
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show banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.  
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show Not scientific; hard to test, Too broad; hard to falsify claims, Based on limited sample; Female patients, Upper class, 19th-century Vienna  
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Humanist Theories   show
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show Believed in Client centered Therapy; focuses on client's individual growth  
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Self Concept   show
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show Self-actualization theory. Hierarchy of needs; The healthy personality  
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show You are what you expect—Affected by people’s thoughts. Locus of control.Source of perceived control over events; Internal: Feel responsible for what happens to you (or) External: Outside forces are responsible  
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First born or only child   show
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show Independent  
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Later-born   show
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show More empathic, More neurotic, Greater social connectedness  
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Male Personality   show
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Collectivism   show
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Individualism   show
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show How long memories last  
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Memory Capacity   show
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Encoding   show
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show The process of retaining info in memory.  
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show The process of digging info out of memory.  
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show Memorizing requires effort, like learning a concept from a text. Such processing leads to durable and accessible memories.  
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Hermann Ebbinghaus   show
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Forms of Sensory Memory   show
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show Very short duration (less than 1 second), Large capacity, Lingering activation in perceptual areas of the brain, Happens automatically, without effort, via bottom up processing-processing initiated by a stimulus  
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show Short duration (a few seconds), Small capacity (7+2 items, but some research says 4), Useful for Remembering telephone numbers, Language use, Getting information to long-term memory  
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Strategies to extend Short-term Memory   show
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show By combining items into meaningful “chunks,” we use fewer slots of STM.  
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show Silent repetition keeps STM refreshed, Works until you are interrupted, Rehearse enough, and STM moves to LTM  
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Long-Term Memory   show
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show Explicit Memory. Implicit memory  
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Explicit Memory   show
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show Explicit memory (declarative memories), Conscious awareness; easy to verbalize, Includes semantic and episodic. Implicit memory (nondeclarative memories), No conscious awareness; hard to verbalize, Includes skills or habits (how to ride a bike)  
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show Result of having just performed a task that makes it easier to perform the same or an associated task more easily in the future. To retrieve a specific memory from the web of associations, you first need to activate one of the strands that lead to it.  
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show Semantic involves Word meanings (a cat is an animal), Concepts (cats land on their feet), General facts (my cat is named Kermit). Episodic involves Events that occurred to you (adopting a cat), Include context (when, where).  
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Working memory   show
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Capacity   show
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show Heightened emotions (stress related or otherwise) make for stronger memories. Continued stress can disrupt memory.  
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show Gene “snipped away” disabling gene in mouse, Showed different genes for different memory types,  
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show Identified genes used for memory, Apo E gene related to memory and Alzheimer’s  
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show The strengthening of memories  
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show Memories that is stored into a new structure and no longer requires ongoing activity to be maintained  
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Depth of Processing   show
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show based on sensory characteristics  
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show based on meaning (more likely to remember)  
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show Info that is organized and integrated into what the person already knows, We can encode new information in simple or elaborate ways  
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show repeating information  
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Elaborative encoding   show
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Flashbulb Memories   show
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Recall   show
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Recognition   show
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Cues   show
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State Dependent Retrieval   show
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False Memories   show
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show Neural center in the limbic system that processes explicit memories.  
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show Memories fade away over time  
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Retroactive   show
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Proactive   show
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Encoding failure   show
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show People unknowingly revise their memories.  
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show Defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.  
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Amnesia   show
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Retrograde amnesia   show
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Anterograde amnesia   show
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Repressed Memories   show
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Mnemonic devices   show
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Method of loci   show
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Pegword system   show
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Psychological Disorder   show
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Three factors of Psychological Disorders   show
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Distress   show
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Disability   show
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Danger   show
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Psychosis   show
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Hallucination   show
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show Entrenched false beliefs.  
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show Upon hearing the symptoms of a disorder, the tendency for people to believe that they or someone they know shares those symptoms. Only a trained professional can diagnose a psychological disorder.  
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Greeks explanation of abnormality   show
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show delusion and hallucinations(According to the Greeks)  
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Phlegm   show
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Blood   show
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Black bile   show
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show Was the work of the devil (According to the Greeks)  
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Biopsychological Model   show
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show For a given disorder there is both a predisposition to the disorder…diathesis, AND specific factors… Stress. They, with environmental triggers, combine to trigger the disorder. Stress is particular to each individual.  
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Diathesis involves   show
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Stress involves   show
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show Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning(Rewarded or punished for certain behaviors), Observational Learning (Grow up watching mom worry or dad angry)  
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The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)   show
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show Axis I: clinical disorders, Axis II: personality disorders and mental retardation, Axis III: general medical conditions, Axis IV: psychosocial and environmental problems, Axis V: global assessment of functioning.  
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show Conditions marked by persistent or episodic disturbances in emotion that interfere with normal functioning in at least one realm of life.  
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Major depressive disorder(MDD)   show
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Characteristics of MDD   show
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show Affect (mood), Behavior (tacticians), Cognitions (thoughts)  
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show Not all cultures share the same symptom list. Zimbabwe (as well as some Latin and Mediterranean cultures) depression is marked by headaches. Asian culture report weakness and sense of imbalance.  
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Misconceptions of suicide   show
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Dysthymic Disorder   show
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Those suffering from Dysthymic Disorder suffer 2/more of following   show
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show Mood disorder marked by one or more manic episode, often altering with periods of depression  
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Types of Mania   show
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Manic episode   show
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Prodromal phase   show
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show Often cycles with depression, Usually take place over a number of years, Some rapid cycle with four or more mood shifts a year, If left untreated the mood swings cycle quicken over time  
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How mood disorders affect the brain   show
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show Those with depression Make more negative comments, less eye contact, less responsive, Speak softer, Use shorter sentences, Way of explaining life events, Blame external or internal factors.  
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show person who was founder of depression lab  
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What did Beck Discover   show
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show Depression goes up when there is less social reinforcement and less contact with others, Lack of positive reinforcement ups risk for depression  
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show extreme fear or extreme agitation(anxiety), People with anxiety disorders experience intense or pervasive anxiety or fear, Experience extreme attempts to avoid these feelings, Anxiety is not consistently related to a specific object or situation  
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Panic   show
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show Episodes on intense fear or discomfort accompanied by symptoms such as: Palpitations, Breathing difficulties, Chest pain, Nausea, Sweating, Dizziness, Fear of going crazy or doing something uncomfortable.  
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show Exaggerated fear of an object, class of objects, or particular situations accompanied by avoidance that is extreme enough to interfere with everyday life. Avoiding the stimulus the sufferer avoids the fear and the anxiety.  
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show Fear of public embarrassment or humiliation and the avoidance of social situations likely to arouse fear  
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show Fear of or avoiding of places that may be difficult to leave should panic symptoms occur, Fear of leaving the home.  
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show Recurrent or persistent thoughts, impulses, images, that feel intrusive and inappropriate and are difficult to suppress or ignore  
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Compulsion   show
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show Anxiety Disorder that occurs as a consequence of a traumatic event such as war, physical or sexual abuse, rape, terrorism, or natural disasters  
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PTSD Diagnosis made with 3 conditions   show
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PTSD symptoms   show
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Schizophrenia   show
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show Involve an excess or distortion of normal functions. They are called positive not because they are desirable but because they are PRESENT  
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Positive symptoms   show
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show Involve a diminution or loss of normal functions  
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show A general failure to express or respond to emotion(Flat affect), Brief, slow, empty replies to question(Alogia), An inability to initiate or persist in goal directed behavior (Avolition)  
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show Symptoms occur gradually, Prodromal phase is characterized by slow deterioration in functioning, Eventually symptoms reach active phase and full blown + and/or – symptoms arise  
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Four subtypes (symptom clusters)   show
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show Delusions of persecution are prominent, intellectual functioning and affect are intact, auditory hallucinations are common  
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show Disorganized speech, word salad, disorganized behavior, flat affect, inappropriate affect  
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Catatonic   show
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show Symptoms do not fall in any of the above categories  
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show Serve disturbances in eating behavior, Preoccupations with food and/or weight.  
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show Potentially fatal disorder characterized by the refusal to maintain even a low normal eight  
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show Distortions of body weight/size, Intense fear of becoming fat, Refusal to maintain a healthy weight, Among females, amenorrhea-cessation of menstruation, Obsessions with food—irrational and illogical  
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Bulimia Nervosa   show
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show Previous experiences aid in the performance of a task without conscious awareness of these previous experiences.  
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