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Psychology
Psychological Disorders : is a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes.
Psychopathology: is the study of psychological disorders, including their symptoms, etiology (their cause), and treatment.
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For centuries, psychological disorders were viewed from a supernatural perspective: attributed to a force beyond scientific understanding
Anxiety Disorders: are characterized by excessive and persistent fear and anxiety, and related behavior disturbances.
A person diagnosed with a specific phobia experiences excessive, distressing, and persistent fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation.
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Social Anxiety Disorder is characterized by extreme and persistent fear or anxiety and avoidance of social situations in which the person could potentially be evaluated negatively by others.
When people with Social Anxiety Disorder are unable to avoid situations that provoke anxiety they typically perform safety behaviors. These are mental or behavioral acts that reduce anxiety in social situations by reducing the chance of negative social outcomes.
People with panic disorder experience recurrent and unexpected panic attacks, along with at least one month of persistent concern about additional panic attacks.
A panic attack is a period of extreme fear or discomfort that develops abruptly and reaches a peak within 10 minutes
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Social Psychology : examines how people affect one another and it looks at the power of the situation. (12.1)
Situationism: is the view that our behavior and actions are determined by our immediate environment and surroundings.
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Individualistic Culture: is a culture that focuses on individual achievement and autonomy, have the greatest tendency to commit the fundamental attribution error.
In Contrast
Collectivistic Culture: is a culture that focuses in communal relationship with othes, such as a family, friends, and community, are less likely to commit the fundamental attribution error.
The actor-observer bias: is the phenomenon of attributing other people's behavior to internal factors while attributing our own behavior to situational forces.
Central route: is a logic driven and uses data and facts to convince people of an argument's worthiness.
In Contrast
Peripheral route: is an indirect route that uses peripheral cues to associate positivity with the message.
Normative Social Influence: people conform to the group norm to fit in, to feel good, and to be acceptedly the group
In Contrast
Informational Social Influence : people conform because they believe that group is competent and has the correct information, particularly when the task or situation is ambiguous.
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Lifespan Development
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Along with the 3 scientific develop domains, there are age related guidelines to compare the approximate age they should reach which is called Developmental Milestones
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God's Creation of Humans
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Learning
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Memory
Defined as the process where we encode, store, and retrieve the information we have experienced or learned.
3 types of Memory
Sensory: It takes in all the different sensory experiences that you're having right now. And then it direct your attention and selects some of that information to focus on.
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Long term: which has a huge capacity and a very long duration, allowing you to pull up memories from your entire life whenever you want to recall them.
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Emotion and Motivation
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Sexual Behavior
Limbic system structures such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens are especially important for sexual motivation.
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Sexual Orientation
Is defined as someones emotional, romantic, and erotic attraction toward other people or no people.
There is a sizable population of people within the United States who identify as
- lesbian
- gay
- bisexual
- pansexual
- asexual
- or other non-hetero sexualities.
- Lesbian is the sexual attraction from one female to other females.
- Gay is the sexual attraction from one male to other males
- People that identify as bisexual are attracted to people of their own gender and another gender;
- Pansexual people experience attraction without regard to sex, gender identity or gender expression;
- Asexual people do not experience sexual attraction or have little or no interest in sexual activity.
Gender Idenity
Gender Identity refers to one's sense of being male, female, neither of these, or both of these.
However when people do not feel comfortable identifying as their biological sex is called gender dysphoria