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What is Psychology?
The discipline concern with behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism's physical state, mental state, and external environment
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What is Pyschobabble? List Examples of Psychobabble.
methods and techniques that are presented as being sceintifically proven but have no research to support their claims.
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How does psychobabble differ from serious psychology?
- Serious psychology is more complex, more informative and far more helpfull the psychobabble
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What is the definition critical thinking?
Critical thinking- the ability and willingness to assess claims and make objective judgement on the basis of well-supported reasons and evidence rather than emotion or anecdote
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List the eight essential critical thinking guidelines
- 1. ask questions
- 2. define your terms
- 3. examine the evidence
- 4. Analyze assumptions and biases
- 5. aviod emotional reasoning
- 6. dont oversimplify
- 7. Consider other interpretation
- 8. tolerate uncertainty
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List some psychological practitioners
Psychological Practitioners- naturalistic, laboraty observation, inventories, objective tests
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What does Ph.D and Psy.D M.D. and Ed.D?
- Ph.D- Doctor of Philosophy
- Psy.D M.D- Doctor of Psychology
- Ed.D- Doctor of Education
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Definition of Hypothesis
Hypothesis- a statement that attempts to describe or explain a given behavior
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Purpose of Informed Consent
Researchers must protect participants from physical or mental harm
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What is the difference between Laboratory and Naturalistic Observation?
Naturalistic is for observation in normal social enviroment while Laboratory observation is done in a well docummented area
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Whats the difference between projective and objective testing?
Objective testing measures beliefs, feeling, or behaviors of an aware individual projective tests are designed to tap unconsious feeling and motives
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What is a case study
A detailed description of a particular individual being studied or treated.
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Definition of Mental Disorder
Any behavior or emtional state that causes an individual great suffering, is self-destructive, seriously impairs the persons ability to work or get along with others, or endangers others or the community
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DSM Definition
- Used to diagnose mental disorders.
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
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Definition of GAD ( General anxiety disorder)
A continues state of anxiety marked by feelings of worry or dread, apprehension, difficuties in concentration and signs of motor tension
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Definition of PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder)
- reliving the trauma in recurrent, intrusive thoughts, a sense of detachment from others and a loss of interest infamiliar activities
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Definition of Panic Disorder
a person has recurring attacks of intense fear of panic
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Definition of Phobia
is an exaggerated fear of a specific situation, activity, or thing
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Definition of Agoraphobia
Being trapped in a crowd Public Place, where escape might be difficult or where help might be unavailable if the person has a panic attack.
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Definition of OCD ( Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
Characterized by recurrent, persistent, unwished-for thoughts or images and by repetitive, ritualized behaviors that the person feels must carried out to aviod disaster.
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Definition of Major Depression
Major Depression involves emotional, behavioral, cognitive and physical charges severe enough to disrupt a person's ordinary functioning and lasting at least two weeks
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Definition of Bipolar Disorder
When people experience at least one episode of mania alternating with episodes of depression
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Definition of Personality Disorders
Involve maladaptive traits that cause great distress or inability to get along with others
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Definition of Paranoid Personality Disorder
A group of conditions called eccentric personality disorders. people with these disorders seem to be odd, or peculiar. most are paranoid, worried, or suspicious
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Definition of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
A mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration
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Definition of APD (Antisocial personality disorder)
Characterized by a life long pattern of irresponsible, antisocial behavior such as law breaking , violence, and other impulsive reckless acts
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Definition of DID ( Dissociative Identity Disorder)
is a controversal disorder marked by the apparent appearence within one personalities, each with its own name and traits, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
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Definition of Schizophrenia
A psychotic disorder marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized and incoherent speech, in appropriate behavior, and cognitive impairments
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Definition of Antipsychotic Drugs
Drugs used primary for treating schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
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Definition of Antidepressant drugs
Drugs used primarily in the treatment of mood disorders, especially depression and anxiety
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Definition of Tranquilizers
Drugs commonly but often inappropriatelly prescribed for patients who complain of unhappiness, anxiety, or worry
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Definition of Psychodynamic therapies
process by which the client transfers emotional feelings toward other important people in his or her life
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Definition of Transference
the clients transfer of emotional elements of his or her life (inner) usually feelings about the clients parents- outward onto the analyst
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Definition of Behavior Therapy
A form of therapy that applies principles of classical and operant conditioning to help people change self-defeating or problematic behaviors
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Definition of Skills Training
in behavior therapy, an effort to teach the clients skills that he/she may lack, as well as news constructive behaviors to replace self-defeating ones
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Definition of Cognative Therapy
a form of theraapy designed to indentify and change irrational, unproductive ways of thinking and hence to reduce negative emotion and their self-defeating consequences.
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Definition of Humanistic Therapy
A form of psychotherapy based on the philosophly of humanism, which emphasizes the clients free will to change rather than past conflicts
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Definition of Client Centered Therapy
A humanist approach, devised by carl rogers, which emphasizes the therapist's empathy with the client and the use of unconditional positive regard.
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Definition of Therapeutic Alliance
the bond of confidence and mutal understanding established between therapist and client, which allows them to work together to solve the clients problems
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