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- Dopamine
- involved in schizophrenia, responsible for voluntary movements.
- Endorphins
- Mood elevator, natural pain suppresant, helps us to feel good.
- Neurotransmitters
- Brain chemicals that allow us to do things.
- Norepinephrine
- Mood changes;depression.
- Seretonin
- Mood elevators, happy! affects sleep and wakefullness.
- Diagnosis
- Someone looks at symptoms to give you a set name.
- DSM
- Diag
- Suicide
- The taking of one owns life.
- General Anxiety Disoder GAD
- Always being worried.
- Panic Disorder
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A Person has panic suddenly and has an unjustifiable attack.
Heart Racing, Perspire, Dizzy. - Phobia
- Irrational fear of something.
- Agoraphobia
- Fear of public places.
- OCD
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder-And idea that you cannot get rid of, but attempting to perform rituals in order to satisfy obsession.
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD
- When you expierience an event that is hard to cope with and you expierience flashbacks, and depression.
- Major Depression
- Feelings of major sadness.
- Bipolar Disorder
- Alternating moods. Heightened into a "Mania" phase, and suddenly drop down into a depressed stage of emotion.
- Dysthymia
- Moderate sadness that lasts for at least two years.
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- SAD When people become depressed when their is less sunlight. Light Therapy can be a reasonable subsitute. (Flourescent tubes that mimic sunlight.
- Conversion Disorder
- Highly stressful situation/convert into physical symptoms..stressed about writing...arm becomes paralyzed.
- Hypocondriasis
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Believe they are seriously ill when they are not. Playing sick role-get sympathy out of doing things.
Go to doctor find nothing is wrong, so go to another doctor because they do not believe this. - Dissociative Disorders
- Some area of memory is split off from concious awareness.
- Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Split personality-As a young child a person is abused. So intolerable they cannot handle, become "split" personality when they cannot handle it.
- Correlation Coefficient
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How one describes the relation Correlation-has a sign that is either negative or positive. Positive Correlation-both variables go in same direction.
Negative Correlation-One variable is different from another. - Compulsion
- Need to do something.
- Delusion
- Beliefs that are made up purposefully such as believing you are being hounded by demons.
- Facial Feedback Hypothesis
- Associating emotion with
- Facial Feedback Hypothesis
- Associating emotiojn with expression on face.
- Negative Reinforcement
- The strengthening of a response th
- obsession
- what you must get done.
- Classical Conditioning
- The process of learning by which a previously nuetral stimulus comes to elicit an identical or similar response to one originally elicited by another stimulus as the result of the pairing of the two stimuli.
- Dependant Variables
- the effects or outcomes of an expeiriment that are believed to be dependent on the values of the independent variables.
- Hallucinations
- Perceptions experienced in the absence of external stimuli.
- Independant Variables
- Factors that are manipulated in an expieriment.
- Insomnia
- Difficulty falling asleep remaning asleep or returning to sleep.
- Longitudinal Study
- Study that compares the same individuals at periodical intervals over an extended period of times.
- Modeling
- A behavior therapy technique for overcoming phobias and acquiring more adaptive behaviors, based on observing and imitating models.
- Operant Conditioning
- The process of learning in which the manipulation of the consequences of a response influences the likelihood or probability of the response occuring.
- Parasympathetic Nervous System
- The branch of the autonomic nervous system that regulates bodily processes such as digestion that replenish stores of energy.
- Perceptual Set
- The tendency for perceptions to be influenced by ones expectations or preconceptions.
- Postive Reinforcement
- The strenghthening of a response through the introduction of a stimulus following the response.
- Proactive Interference
- A form of interference in which material learned earlier interferes with retention of newly acquired information.
- Reliability
- The ability of test scores over time.
- Retroactive Interference
- A form of interference in whicc
- Sleep Apnea
- When people stop breathing during nights sleep.
- Sympathetic Nervous system
- Things we cannot control.
- Synapse
- The small fluid filled gap between neurons through which neurotransmitters carry neural impulses.
- Tardive Dyskineasia
- A potentially disabling motor disorder that may occur following regular use of antipsychotic drugs
- Validity
- Does the test measure what it is supposed to measure.
- Psychiatrist
- A very expensive medical doctor that writes prescriptions.
- Psychologist
- A person who has a PHD PSYD Docterate in Psychology in Education.
- Cognative
- People who have irrational ways of thinking that allow them to behave irrationally.
- Unconditional Love Regard
- Let the client know that they are not bad for doing bad things.
- Unconditional Positive Regard
- Let the client know that they are not bad for doing bad thigns.