psychology
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 psychotic | person is not in touch with reality |
| insanity | legal term used to describe people who are not accountable for their actions. (lawyers) |
| (What Constitutes a psychological disorder):DSM | most common mental disorder including description, diagnosis,treatment, and research |
| Roseannes study | 12 ppl pose ''psedopatients |
| Roseannes study | admitted themselves to 12 hospitals in five states |
| Roseannes study | complanied of hearing vocies that said: hallow, empty, and thud |
| Roseannes study | 11/12 diagonsed |
| Roseannes study | gave truthful response to interviewer |
| (Affective Disorders) : Depression | sadness, despair, hoplessness, lost intrest in pleasure activites; last two weeks; 10% affected |
| (Affective Disorders) : Bipolar(Manic Depression) | mood swings from deppression to euphoria |
| (Affective Disorders) : Mania | inflated self-esteem, less, sleep, and racing thoughts |
| Depression | appetite changes, energy loss, negativity |
| Dysthuma | low level depression.(may last for yrs.) |
| (Behavior and thought Patients): Different | from societal norms |
| (Behavior and thought Patients): Distressing | Individual or others |
| (Behavior and thought Patients): Dysfunctional | Daily living |
| Anxiety Disorders | associated with feelings of tension and fear |
| Phobias | paralyzing fear of particular animal, object or situation |
| Panic Disorders | intense feeling of terror |
| Obessive compulsive disorder | repetitive action |
| PTSD | stress following an emotinally event triggered later |
| GABA | a ''brake'' in the brian. * when to low may lead to heightened arousal and over stimulation of CNS |
| Serotonin | associated with some anxiety |
| Brain Geography | hundbrain and forebrain responds to threats in over active ppl with anxiety |
| Observational learning | learn a ''set response'' by watching others through our experience |
| Threat Magnification | ppl eexaggerate potential threats and increase their stress resopnse |
| Amnesia | memory gaps cannont be accounted |
| Fugue | memory gaps followed by sudden flight from timing and identity |
| Freudian | personality shatters in order to cope with implications sperately |
| (Schizophrenia) : Paranoid | very suspicious of others |
| (Schizophrenia) : Catatonic | with drawn, neagative, and isolated |
| (Schizophrenia) : Disorganized | verbally incoherent.(moods and emotions are inaaporiate) |
| Residual | lacks motivation in daliy living |
| Cognitive Behavorial | unable to screen out irrevlant stimuli and thougths |
| Diathesis (stress model) | ppl with predispostion trigger a stressor of dopamne |
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