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Phases of Sexual responsive cycle
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Excitement Phase
Plateau Phase Orgasm Resolution Refractory Period |
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Sexual Disorders
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impaired sexual arousal or functioning
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Estrogen
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peak during ovulation among animals
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Testosterone
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rats and female humans regained their sexual interest when being rejected
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Reasons for contraceptive non-use
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Ignorance
Little Communication about bc Guilt Alcohol Use Media norms of unprotected promiscuity |
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Psychological disorders
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Patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors, that are deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional
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DSM-IV-TR ASA's
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Is a clinical syndrome present?
Is a personality disorder or intellectual disability present? Is a general medical condition present? Are psycosocial or environmental problems present? What is the global assessment of this person's functioning? |
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David Rosehan study
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shows how labels can misdiagnose disorders
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Generalized Anxiety disorder
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continually tense and uneasy for no reason
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Panic Disorder
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minutes long episode of fear that something bad is going to happen
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Stimulus generalization
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person attacked by dog later fears dogs
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Reinforcement
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avoiding the feared situation reduces anxiety
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Natural selection
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we are biologically prepared to fear threats faced by our ancestors
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Genes
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some are predisposed to anxiety; anxiety gene that affects serotonin and glutamate
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Brain
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overarousal of brain areas involved in impulse control and habitual behaviors
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Mood disorders
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emotional extremes; major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder
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Bipolar
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alternating between mania and depression; large mood swings
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left frontal lobe during depression
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inactive; handles positive emotions
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severe depression frontal lobes
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7% smaller
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Norepinephrine
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increases arousal and boosts mood; scare during depression, over-abundant during mania
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Serotonin
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Scare during depression
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Depressions vicious cycle
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Stressful experience
Negative Explanatory Style Depressed Mood Cognitive and Behavioral Changes |
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Attribution Theory
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theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition
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Fundamental attribution error
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the tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition
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Attitudes
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feelings influenced by our beliefs that predispose our reactions to objects, people and events. Mean person= dislike and act unfriendly towards
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Serotonin
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Scare during depression
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Depressions vicious cycle
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Stressful experience
Negative Explanatory Style Depressed Mood Cognitive and Behavioral Changes |
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Attribution Theory
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theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition
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Fundamental attribution error
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the tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition
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Attitudes
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feelings influenced by our beliefs that predispose our reactions to objects, people and events. Mean person= dislike and act unfriendly towards
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Central Route Persuasion
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occurs when people are naturally analytical or involved in the issue
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Peripheral Route Persuasion
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occurs when issues don't engage systematic thinking
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Foot-in-the-door Phenomenon
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tendcy for someone to adhere to a small request and later adhere to a larger one
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Role
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a set of explanations about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave
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Cognitive dissonance theory
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theory that we act to minimize discomfort we feel when 2 of our thoughts conflict
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Conformity
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changing one's opinion or behavior to that of a group's norm
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Normative social influence
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influence resulting from one's desire to gain approval/ avoid disapproval
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Information social influence
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influence from one's willingness to accept other's opinions about reality
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Conformity
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changing one's opinion or behavior to that of a group's norm
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Social Facilitation
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stronger responses to simple or well-learned tasks in front of others
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Normative social influence
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influence resulting from one's desire to gain approval/ avoid disapproval
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Social Loafing
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the tendency for people in a group to exert less energy when pooling their efforts together toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable
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Information social influence
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influence from one's willingness to accept other's opinions about reality
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Social Facilitation
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stronger responses to simple or well-learned tasks in front of others
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Social Loafing
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the tendency for people in a group to exert less energy when pooling their efforts together toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable
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Deindividuation
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the loss of self-awareness and self restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity
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Group polarization
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the enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group
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Groupthink
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the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-- making group overrides a realistic approval of alternatives
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Effects of group interaction
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motivate people to exert themselves, make easy tasks easier and difficult tasks harder, enhance humor or fuel mob violence
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