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Concordance rate
indicates the percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives who exhibit the same disorder
Dissociative Disorders
class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity
Dissociative amnesia
a sudden loss of memory for important personal information that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
Involves a disruption of identity marked by the experience of two or more largely complete, and usually very different, personalities.
Major depressive disorder
people show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure
Anhedonia
A diminished ability to experience pleasure
Bipolar disorder
disorder marked by the experience of both depressed and manic period
Schizophrenic Disorder
Disorder marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking and speech, and deterioration of adaptive behavior.
Delusions
are false beliefs that are maintained even though they clearly are out of touch with reality
Hallucinations
Are sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of a real, external stimulus or are gross distortions of perceptual input
Autism or Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
Neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in social interaction and communication and restricted, repetitive interests and activities
Personality disorders
Class of disorders marked by extreme, inflexible personality traits that cause subjective distress or impaired social and occupational functioning
Avoidant Personality disorder
Excessively sensitive to potential rejection, humiliation, or shame; socially withdrawn in spite of desire for acceptance from others
Dependent Personality Disorder
Excessively lacking in self-reliance and self-esteem; passively allowing others to make all decisions; constantly subordinating own needs to others’ needs
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Preoccupied with organization, rules, schedules, lists, trivial details; extremely conventional, serious, and formal; unable to express warm emotions
Schizoid personality disorder
Defective in capacity for forming social relationships; showing absence of warm, tender feelings for others
Schizotypal personality disorder
Showing social deficits and oddities of thinking, perception, and communication that resemble schizophrenia
Paranoid personality disorder
Showing pervasive and unwarranted suspiciousness and mistrust of people; overly sensitive; prone to jealousy
Histrionic personality disorder
Overly dramatic; tending to exaggerated expressions of emotion; egocentric, seeking attention
Narcissistic Personality disorder
Grandiosely self-important; preoccupied with success fantasies; expecting special treatment; lacking interpersonal empathy
Borderline Personality disorder
Unstable in self-image, mood, and interpersonal relationships; impulsive and unpredictable
Antisocial personality disorder
Marked by impulsive, callous, manipulative, aggressive and irresponsible behavior. Chronically violating the rights of others; failing to accept social norms, to form attachments to other, or to sustain consistent work behavior; exploitive and reckless
Eating disorders
Severe disturbances in eating behavior characterized by preoccupation with weight concerns and unhealthy efforts to control weight
Anorexia nervosa
involves intense fear of gaining weight, disturbed body image, refusal to maintain normal weight, and use of dangerous measure to lose weight
Bulimia nervosa
involves habitually engaging in out of control overeating, followed by unhealthy compensatory efforts, such as self-induced vomiting, fasting, abuse of laxatives and diuretics, and excessive exercise
Binge-eating disorder
involves distress inducing eating binges that are not accompanied by the purging, fasting, and excessive exercise seen in bulimia
Insanity
Legal status indicating that a person cannot be held responsible for his or her actions because of mental illness
Competency
Refers to a defendant’s capacity to stand trial
Involuntary commitment
people are hospitalized in psychiatric facilities against their will
Stress
any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one’s well-being and tax one’s coping abilities
Primary appraisal
The initial evaluation of whether an event is irrelevant to you, relevant but not threatening, or stressful
Secondary appraisal
An evaluation of your coping resources and options for dealing with the stress
Approach-approach conflict
A choice must be made between two attractive goals
avoidance-avoidance conflict
a choice must be made between two unattractive goals
Approach-avoidance conflict
a choice must be made about whether to pursue a single goal that has both attractive and unattractive aspects
General adaptation syndrome
Model of the body’s stress response, consisting of three stages: Alarm, Resistance, and Exhaustion
Neurogenesis
Formation of new neurons
Learned helplessness
A passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events. (Giving up)
Catharsis
Release of emotional tension
Defense mechanisms
Largely unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions, such as anxiety and guilt
Type “A” personality
Characterized by strong competitive orientation, impatience and time urgency, and anger and hostility
Type “B” personality
Characterized by patience, relatively relaxed, easygoing, amicable behavior
Immune Response
The body’s defensive reaction to invasion by bacteria, viral agents, or other foreign substances
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
A disorder in which the immune system is gradually weakened and eventually disabled by the human immunodeficiency virus
Catastrophic thinking
Involves unrealistically pessimistic appraisals of stress that exaggerate the magnitude of one’s problems
Person perception
the process of forming impressions of others
Stereotypes
Widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group
Illusory Correlation
Occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen
Ingroup
A group that one belongs to and identifies with
Outgroup
A group that one does not belong to or identify with
Internal Attributions
Ascribe the causes of behavior to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, and feelings
External attributions
Ascribe the causes of behavior to situational demands and environmental constraints
The fundamental attribution error
Refers to observers’ bias in favor of internal attributions in explaining others’ behavior
The self-serving bias
The tendency to attribute one’s successes to personal factors and one’s failures to situational factors
Interpersonal attraction
Refers to positive feeling towards another person
The matching hypothesis
Idea that proposes that males and females of approximately equal physical attractiveness are likely to select each other as partners
Passionate love
Complete absorption in another that includes tender sexual feelings and the agony and ecstasy of intense emotion
Companionate love
Warm, trusting, tolerant affection for another whose life is deeply intertwined with one’s own
Explicit Attitudes
Attitudes that one holds consciously and can readily describe
Implicit Attitudes
Attitudes that are covertly expressed in subtle automatic responses over which one has little conscious control
Mere exposure effect
Finding that repeated exposures to a stimulus promotes greater liking of the stimulus
Dissonance theory
Assumes that inconsistency among attitudes propels people in the direction of attitude change
Cognitive dissonance
Exists when related attitudes or beliefs are inconsistent; that is, when they contradict each other
Normative influence
When people conform to social norms for fear of negative social consequences
Informational influence
When people look to others for guidance about how to behave in ambiguous situations
Bystander effect
People are less likely to provide needed help when they are in groups than when they are alone
Social loafing
Reduction in effort by individuals when they work in groups, as compared with when they work by themselves
Group polarization
When group discussion strengthens a group’s dominant point of view and produces a shift toward a more extreme decision in that direction
Groupthink
When members of a cohesive group emphasize concurrence at the expense of critcal thinking in arriving at a decision
Foot-in-the-door technique
Getting people to agree to a small request to increase the chances they will agree to a larger request later
Lowball technique
Getting someone to commit to a seemingly attractive proposition before its hidden costs are revealed
Extraversion
Characterized as outgoing, sociable, upbeat, friendly, assertive, and gregarious, more positive outlook on life
Neuroticism
Characterized as anxious, hostile, self-conscious, insecure, and vulnerable, tend to be more impulsive and emotionally unstable
Openness to experience
Characterized as curious, flexible, imaginative, intellectual, interested in new ideas, and unconventional attitudes
Agreeableness
Characterized as warm, sympathetic, trusting, compassionate, cooperative, modest and straightforward.
Conscientiousness
Characterized as diligent, well-organized, punctual, and dependable, with self-discipline
Id
Primitive, instinctive component of personality that operates according to the pleasure principle
Ego
Decision-making component of personality that operates according to the reality principle
Superego
Moral component of personality that incorporates social standards about what represents right and wrong
Jung’s Analytical psychology
Proposes the unconscious is in two layers, and that the entire human race shares a collective unconscious
Collective unconscious
Storehouse of latent memory traces inherited from people’s ancestral past
Archetypes
Emotionally charged images and thought forms that have universal meaning
Adler’s individual psychology
Argues that the source of human motivation is striving for superiority, improving one’s self and master life challenges
Bandura’s Social Cognitive theory
Theory that states people actively seek out and process information about their environment to maximize favorable outcomes
Mischel’s Person-Situation Controversy
Theory that argued that people’s personality and character largely play a role in their behaviors in certain situations
Need for self-actualization
Need to fulfill one’s potential