Psychology

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These are persistent disorders charac. by a relatively inflexible reaction to stress

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Personality disorders

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Type of personality disorder where psycho/sociopath acts out conflict w/o remorse or guilt & has difficulty following rules

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Antisocial

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Type of personality disorder where a person is self-centered, inflexible, & is a perfectionist

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Compulsive

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Type of personality disorder where the person is attention seeking, aggressive, seductive person who is unable to be deeply involved emotionally

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Hysterical AKA Histrionic

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Type of personality disorder where the person is attention seeking, regards no one else as important, strong admiration for self/ exhibitionist

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Narcissism

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Type of personality disorder where the person is sensitive, defensive, suspicion leading to aggression, unfounded beliefs that other want to harm him

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Paranoid

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Type of personality disorder where the person is taking aggressive actions in an indirect manner, argumentative

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Passive Aggressive

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Type of personality disorder where the person is introverted & withdrawn, emotionally cold & distant, avoids social interaction

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Schizoid

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These are unconscious strategies utilized to cope w/ reality

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Defense mechanisms

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Type of defense mechanism charac. by refusal to perceive unpleasant realities. Painful subject stems from external sources such as impulses or fantasies. M/C seen in alcoholics

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Denial

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Type of defense mechanism charac. by assigning a feeling or belief to another person, group, or to the outside world

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Projection

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Type of defense mechanism charac. by attributing one’s own unacceptable desires & impulses to someone else

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Rationalization

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Type of defense mechanism charac. by depressed, unacceptable behavior expressed in an exaggerated form of an opposite behavior

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Reaction Formation

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Type of defense mechanism charac. by a response to stress in which an individual reverts to a less developmentally mature stage

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Regression

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Type of defense mechanism charac. by unacceptable or unpleasant ideas/impulses are thrust out of consciousness

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Repression

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Type of defense mechanism charac. by redirecting one’s feelings (aggression or affection) from one person to another

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Transference

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A class of mental disorders involving distress

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Neuroses

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This neurosis includes panic attacks & hyperventilation

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Anxiety

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This neurosis includes emotional problems that unconsciously manifest themselves as somatic complaints

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Conversion Hysteria AKA Conversion Reaction

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This neurosis includes an exaggerated pre-occupation w/ bodily functions & fear that one is suffering from serious ds

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Hypocondriasis

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This neurosis includes anxiety, phobia, obsession, compulsion, hysterical conversion & dissociative phenomena. Able to distinguish fantasy from reality & demonstrates inappropriate behavior such as ritualistic washing

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Neurotic

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This neurosis includes perfectionist, inflexible, uncontrollably entangled w/ details & highly repetitive activities. Persistent thoughts are obsessive while persistent actions are compulsive

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Obsessive-Compulsive

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An irrational or unrealistic fear of a situation, animal, person, or activity

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Phobic

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Fear of public spaces

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Agoraphobia

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Fear of heights

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Acrophobia

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Fear of thunder & lightening

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Astrophobia

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Fear of stars or celestial space

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Astraphobia

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Person experiences vague physical symptoms in response to mental/psychological stress

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Somatization

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Severe fluctuation of mood or personality

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Affective disorder

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This ds is associated w/ delirium tremens & folate deficiency among other things

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Alcoholism

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Voluntary starvation, excessive exercise, unreasonable fear of gaining weight

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Anorexia Nervosa

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Behavior alternates b/w mania & melancholia

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Bipolar Affective disorder AKA Manic depressive

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Binge eating w/ subsequent purging, body image distortion

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Bulimia Nervosa

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Assoc. w/ muscle inhibition

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Catatonia

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Mild chronic depression

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Dysthymic Disorder

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These are caused by a perception problem

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Hallucinations

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A period of depression assoc. w/ menopause

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Involutional Melancholia

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Delusions, hallucinations, social withdrawal, daily function impairment, & bizarre behavior

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Schizophrenia

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A person who adopts the dress of the opposite sex; cross dressing

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Transvestite

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Type of therapy used to tx alcoholics by associating drinking w/ unpleasant consequences

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Aversion

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Type of therapy where rewards/punishments are utilized to correct undesirable behavior. Emphasis on behavior not psych. cause

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Conditioning AKA Behavior Modification Therapy

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A form of desensitization for the tx of phobias & related disorders in which the pt is repeatedly exposed to emotionally distressing stimuli of high intensity

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Flooding

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A behavior modification technique in which one is taught to imitate the desired behavior of another

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Modeling

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Psychological testing using a series of inkblot images

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Rorschach Test

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A method of IQ testing

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Wechster Scale

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This guy developed all this stuff: - Free association & dream analysis as a route of the unconscious mind - Psychosexual stages of development - Id, Ego, Superego

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Freud

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What are Freud's psychosexual stages of development?

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- Oral - Anal - Phallic - Genital

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What do the Id, Ego, Superego control?

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``` Id = basic instincts Ego = reality & control Superego = guilt & consciousness ```

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This person developed the collective unconscious of man; used for psychoanalysis

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Jung

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This person developed the hierarchy of human needs; physiology, safety, love, esteem, & self actualization

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Maslow

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This person developed classical conditioning

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Pavlov

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This person developed operant conditioning (use of consequences to modify the occurrence & form the behavior)

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Skinner