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an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more a after a traumatic experience
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
100
behavioral technique; designed to eliminate undesirable behaviors; a type of counterconditioning; associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol); controversial technique
Aversive Conditioning
100
a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.
flashbulb memory
100
inclds CLINICAL SYNDROMES that may be focus of clinical attention, such as: schizophrenia, GAD, MDD, substance dependence
AXIS I
100
An emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties
Psychotherapy
200
a mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminshed interest or pleasure in most activities
Major Depressive Disorder
200
all behavior (normal and abnormal) is learned; therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors and to teach new, appropriate ways of behaving; includes systematic desensitization, flooding, modeling extinction, token economy, and behavior contracting; is often combined with Cognitive therapies and is known as CBT
Behavior Therapy
200
the processing of information into the memory system--for example by extracting meaning.
encoding
200
PERSONALITY DISORDERS: longstanding personality traits (may or may not be involved in development of Axis I disorder)
AXIS II
200
mental illnesses that cause bodily symptoms including pain, hypochondriasis, conversion
Somatoform Disorders
300
emotional stress that leads to physical ailments
Dissociative Disorders
300
a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning; includes systematic desensitization, flooding, aversive conditioning, etc.
Counterconditioning
300
our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list.
serial position effect
300
Disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states, which may be described in some cultures as possession. Disruption involves marked discontinuity in the sense of self and sense of agency
Dissociative Identity Disorder
300
In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
Transference
400
immobility (or excessive, purposeless movement), extreme negatism, and/or parrot-like repeating of another's speech or movements
catatonic schizophrenia
400
an aggressive method of desensitization; exposure to anxiety-producing stimuli is great; short-term technique
Flooding
400
a method of memory enhancement which uses visualization to organize and recall information.
methods of loci
400
grandiose sense of self importance preoccupation of fantasies of beauty, brilliance, ideal love, power, or limitless success
Narcissistic Personality
400
A now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.
Lobotomy
500
a mental disorder characterized by disturbed and unstable interpersonal relationships and self-image, along with impulsive reckless, and often self-destructive behavior
borderline personality
500
awareness of previously unconscious feelings and memories and how the this awareness influences present feelings and behaviors; working through childhood conflicts
Insight
500
a loss of access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before an injury or the onset of a disease.
retrograde amnesia
500
Neither enjoy nor desire close relationships; Loners like being by themselves
Schizoid Personality Disorder
500
Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; A possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 dopamine receptors
Tardive Dyskeninsia
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