Chapt.1-4 Flashcards

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Placebo effect

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Gets better because of expectation

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Comorbidity

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Showing the traits of two different disorders

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Chloride

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Stops the message

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Spontaneous remission

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When people get better without treatment

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Existentualistic

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Doing something meaningful

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Interpersonal therapy

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Evidence-base treatment that focuses on changing emotions and styles of interacting in close relationships

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Social cognition

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The study of how humans process information about the social world

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Recticular activating

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Regulates sleeping and waking

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Operant behavior

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Rewarding and punishment behavior example token economy poker chip at SafeWord

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Aversive

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Something that makes you uncomfortable

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Flooding

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Exposing them to the thing that their most afraid of-worst stimulus possible

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Electroconvulsive therapy

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Originally used for schizophrenia. Test includes electrical shocks. Was not used with muscle reliever’s results it’s a broken collarbone

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Mental disorders

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Caused by many factors. Physicians try to eliminate symptoms in order for the patients to live a happier life

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Client-centered

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Clients I have extra therapy, therapist is allowed to talk about herself

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Gestalt

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Deal with hear and now

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Therapeutic alliance

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Therapist and client work together

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Double-blind study

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Both Dr. and patient don’t know

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Single-blind study

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Dr. knows, patient doesn’t

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Diagnoses

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Does not happen by one since I’m on it’s own established by sets of symptoms

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Midbrain

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Control of some motor activities example fighting and sex

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Discordant

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One twin has a disorder other twin does not

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Androgyny

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The possession of both female and male gender role characteristics

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Biological approach

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Diagnosis and medication, brief visits

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Psycho dynamic

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Gain insight to unconscious

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Aversive
Something that makes you uncomfortable
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Humanistic approach
Increases emotional awareness and support and exploring emotions
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Cognitive behavior
Teach more adaptive behaviors
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Implosion
Having the person imagine themselves covered in the worst stimulus
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Hypochondria
Always think they're sick
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Thomatic apperception test
Used to figure out overt behaviors- what's going on underneath. Tell me a story about this picture
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Anti-agonist
Blocks the effects on the neurotransmitter
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Chloride
Stops the message
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Sodium
Passes on the message
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Extinction
Removing stimulus example removing food from dog
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Operant conditioning
Skinner and pigeon
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Classical conditioning
Pavlov- the dog (food,bell +salvation association)
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Defense mechanism
Develops unconsciously example: denial displacement projection reaction formation and depression
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Super ego
Mediator of it and ego mostly unconscious
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Ego
Conscious, rational. Operates on the reality principle
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Id
Unconscious, irrational operates on pleasure
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Cortex
Tied to thoughts and reasoning
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Logo therapy
Man search for meaning. Believes that people who survived is because they had something meaningful to look forward to for example land and the family. Victor Frankl
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Developmental psychology
Matching norms and comparing to see the differences
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Hippocampus
Memory short and long-term
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Diathesis stress model
Person inherits and environment is a stressor
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Temperament
Genetic basis in personality
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Displacement
Taking your anger – your feelings out on someone else
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Projection
Projecting your feelings on someone else (I like him equals him liking me)
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Reaction formation
Doing the total opposite of how you feel
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Stimulus generalization
Generalizing one think you are afraid of to others
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Reductionism
Looking at the basic parts when you don't understand something
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Epigenetics
Where the structure of your gene code is altered from the environment
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Dizygotic
Faternal twins
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Monozygotic
Twins
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Concordance rate
The rate that other siblings are going to have the mental disorder
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Concordant
When both the twins have the same disorder
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Genotype
Genetic make up, what your composed of
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Phenotype
What are you show
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Hindbrain
Medulla, cerebellum, reaction formation
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Equifinality
Different cause for abnormal/mental disorder
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Transference
What the patients feelings are towards the therapist