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Ap Psych Ch 12/13

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Psychopathology   Any patterns of emotions, behaviors, or thoughts inappropriate to the situation and leading to personal distress or the inability to achieve important goals  
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Delusions   False thoughts or beliefs  
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Hallucinations   Vivid sensory perceptions such as voices or visions  
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Medical model   Diseases of the mind; objective causes and require specific treatments  
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Social- Cognitive- Behavioral   A psychological alternative to the medical model that views psychological disorder through a combo of social, cognitive, and behavioral processes  
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DSM- IV   Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders; the most widely accepted classification system in the US.  
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Neurosis   Anxiety is core  
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Psychosis   Severe, loss of touch with reality  
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Mood Disorders   Person experiences extreme moods or disturbances in mood  
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Major Depression   Form of depression that does not alternate with mania  
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Seasonal Affective Disorder   Believed to be caused by a lack of sunlight (melatonin0  
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Bipolar Disorder   Mental abnormality involving swings of mood from mania to depression  
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Anxiety Disorder   Intensive feelings of apprehension are long-standing and disruptive  
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GAD   Characterized by persistant and pervasive feelings of anxiety, without any external cause  
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Panic   Marked by panic attacks that have no connection to events in a persons present experience  
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Phobic   A group of anxiety disorders involving a pathological fear of a specific object or situation  
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Agoraphobia   Fear of being in a place where it may be difficult or embarrassing to get out of  
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Preparedness Hypothesis   An innate tendancy to respond quickly and automatically to stimuli that posed a survival threat to our ancestors  
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Somatoform Disorders   Symptoms of a physical disorder without a physical cause  
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Hypochondriasis   Preoccupation with the fear of having, or the idea that one has, a serious disease based on a misinterpretation of the body  
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Dissociative Disorders   Involves a sudden loss of memory or change in identity or consciousness  
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Dissociative Amnesia   A psychologically induced loss of memory  
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Dissociative Fugue   Dissociative amnesia with the addition of "flight" from one'shome, family, and job  
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Depersonalization Disorder   An abnormality involving the sensation that mind and body have separated- an "out of body" experience  
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Dissociative Identity Disorders   Condition in which the individual has 2+ distinct personalities along with disruption in memory  
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Anorexia   An eating disorder that involves persistent loss of appitite that endangers health and stems from emotional or psychological reasons rather than organic causes  
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Bulimia   An eating disorder characterized by eating binges followed by "purges"  
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Schizophrenia   Psychotic disorder involving distortions in perceptions, thoughts, and/or emotions  
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Diathesis- Stress Model   In reference to schizophrenia, the proposal that says that genetic factors place the individual at risk while environmental stress factors transform this potential into an actual schizophrenic disorder  
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Autism   A developmental disorder marked by disabilities in language, social interaction, and the ability to understand another persons state of mind  
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Dyslexia   A reading disability, thought by some experts to involve a brain disorder  
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ADHD   A developmental disability involving short attention span, distractability, and extreme difficulty in remaining inactive for any period  
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Insanity   A legal term, not a psychological or psychiatric one, referring to a person who is unable, because of a mental disorder or defect to conform his or her behavior to the law  
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Therapy   A general term for any treatment process  
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Psychological therapy   Therapies based on psychological principals (rather than on the biomedical approach) often called "psychotherapy"  
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Biomedical Therapy   Treatments that focus on altering the brain, especially with drugs, psychosurgery, or electroconvulsive therapy  
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Insight therapies   Psychotherapies in which the therapist helps others understand (gain insight) to their problems  
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Psychoanalysis   The form of psychodynamic therapy developed by Sigmund Freud. Goal is to release conflicts and memories from the unconscious  
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Analysis of Transference   The Freudian technique of analyzing and interpreting the patients relationship with the therapist based on the assumption that this relationship mirrors unresolved conflicts in the patients past  
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Neo- Freudian Psychodynamic Therapies   Therapies for mental disorders based on Freud's ideas  
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Humanistic Therapies   Focus on positive growth and self-actualization  
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Client- centered therapies   Emphasizes healthy psychological growth through self- actualization (Rogers)  
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Reflection of Feeling   Carl Rogers technique of paraphrasing the client's words, attempting to capture the emotional tone expressed  
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