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Intro to Psych Final
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/11/2008

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abnormal Psychology
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scientific study of bahavior considered to be strange or unusual
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discomfort
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personally distressful
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ineffienceincy
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maladaptive, disfunctional behavior
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bizzarreness
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extreme devience from cultural norms
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When it interferes with your life or makes you dangerous to others
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psychological disordres
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abnormal behavior patterns characterized by disterbances in thinking behavior, percetions, emothions that are associated with significant personal distress or impaired funcitoning.
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anxiety disorder
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excessive or inappropriate anxiety reations
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obsessions
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recurrent persistant thoughts, images, impulses UNWISHED.
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compulsions
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repetitive, ritual behavior that person carries out in a stereotypes fashion, to prevent DISASTER
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anorexia
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lose 25% of normal weight, fearful of becomming obese
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Bulimia
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eat high calorie and purge
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phobia
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irrational or excessive fear of object or situation
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agoraphobia
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excessive irrational fear of being in public places
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Dissociative Disorders
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changes in consciousness, memory, or self identitiy.
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Dissociative Amnesia
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psychologicall based form of amnesia involving splitting off from memory of traumatic or troubling experiences.
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Dissociative Fugue
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One or more episodes of amnesia in which the inability to recall some or all of ones past and either the loss of ones identity or the formation of a new identity to occur with sudden unexpected purposful travel away from home.
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Dissociative identitiy disorder
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appreaance of mulitple personalitites.
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mood disorders
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disterbances in emotional states
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major depressive disorder
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the most common type of depressive disorder, charactezeed by a period of downcast mood, worthlessness, lost of interest-- common cold, college stud
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bipolar disorder
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mood in which episodes in which both depression and mania occur
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schizophrenia
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severe and chronic psychological disorders characcterized by disturbances in thinking perception, emotions and behavior
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psychotic disorder
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break with reality
delusions
hallucinaitons
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schiz
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inappropriate emotional responces
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behavioral disturbances
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types of schiz
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paranoid
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delusions halluc with themes of persecustion or grandiosity
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disorganized
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Speech behavior, emotions
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catatonic
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immobility (excessive or purposless moviement) extreme negativism, parrot like movements or speech
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undifferentiated
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many varied symp
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residual
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withdrawal after hallu and delus have disappeared
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personality disorder
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chara. by rigid personality traits that impair peoples ability to adjust to the demands they face in the enviornment and that interfere with their relationships with others.
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antisocial personality disorder
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callous, antisocial, and irresponsible behavior toaward others
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paranoid personality disorder
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characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others.
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narcissistic personality disorder
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exagersated self importances and success fantasies
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somatoform disorders
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physical ailments or complaints that cannot be explained by organic causes
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conversion disorder
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change or loss in physical funciton that cant be explained by medical causes
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hypochondriasis
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excessive concern that ones physical complaintes ore signs of underlying serios illness
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