FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCHOLOGY UNIT12

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCHOLOGY UNIT12

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Question 1: Dysfunctional

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Ongoing patterns of behavior that interfere with normal day-to-day life

Question 2: Learned Helplessness

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Is closely associated with depression

Question 3: Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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A disorder characterized by a continuous state of tension, apprehension, and autonomic nervous system arousal. Accompanied by depression. Freud suggested those suffering from GAD, the anxiety is cyclical

Question 4: One way for people to break the vicious cycle of depression

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is to participate more often in activities they consider pleasant and rewarding

Question 5: Research regarding depression indicates that with each new generation

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depression is increasing in its prevalence

Question 6: Delusions Example

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Believing you are Christopher Columbus

Question 7: Hallucinations

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Hearing or seeing things that are not there. These experienced by Schizophrenics are most likely to hear things that are not there

Question 8: North Americans born during the winter and spring months

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are at a slightly increased risk for Schizophrenia

Question 9: Anxiety Disorders

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Maladaptive behaviors that reduce worry and fear. Anxiety is considered disordered if it is persistent and distressing

Question 10: Risk of Suicide the greatest

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when people rebound from repression

Question 11: Evidence includes

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Information learned by the secondary personality influences the moods and behaviors of the primary personality. The same life memories are experienced by all personalities.

Question 12: Research on Anxiety Disorders

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Indicates that some people are more genetically predisposed than others to develop anxiety disorders

Question 13: Women are most likely to respond to negative life events

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with self-focused rumination

Question 14: In terms of neurotransmitter levels

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Depression is associate with low norepinephrine and serotonin levels

Question 15: Compared with those who suffer no disorder

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Those who abuse alcohol have a higher risk of committing suicide Question 16: The dramatic increase in reported cases of dissociative identity disorder during the past 40 years

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Strongly suggests that symptoms of this disorder include role-playing. Evidence that symptoms of this are triggered by questions of therapists points to the importance of role-playing in the onset of this disorder

Question 17: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and actions

Question 18: Among schizophrenia patients

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the fluid-filled areas of the brain are abnormally large and the thalamus is abnormally small

Question 19: Of all twins who share identical genes with a schizophrenic victim

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About a half develop schizophrenia

Question 20: Residual Schizophrenia Part One

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A continued presence of negative symptoms. More commonly known as less pronounced symptoms.DSM-IV-TR criteria are absence of prominent delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech

Question 21: Schizophrenia Symptoms

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Flat Affect and Catatonia Question 22: One study on monitored teens who had two relatives with Schizophrenia

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Those who subsequently developed schizophrenia display a tendency to be socially withdrawn prior to the onset of the disorder

Question 23: Fear-Learning Experiences

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Can traumatize the brain by creating fear circuits within the amygdala

Question 24: Medical Model Part One

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Conception that psychological disorders as biologically based sickness that need to be diagnosed and cured. The discovery that psychological disordered can derive from syphilis led to the acceptance of this

Question 25: Evidence suggests that prenatal viral infections

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contribute to Schizophrenia

Question 26: A schizoid personality disorder

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Is most likely to be characterized by a detachment from social relationships

Question 27: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Example

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The social withdrawal and haunting nightmares of battle scarred war veterans best illustrates symptoms of PTSD

Question 28: Hypochondriasis

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A disorder characterized by the misinterpretation of normal physical sensations as symptoms of a dreaded cause