AP Psych Exam - Abnormal Psychology

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When prior experiences have caused a person to view him/herself as unable to control the future

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Learned Helplessness

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Disordered, distorted thinking often demonstrated through delusions and/or hallucinations.

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Schizophrenic Disorders

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Little regard for feelings of others. View the world as hostile, must look out for themselves

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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Odd uses of language, make up own words, string together series of nonsense words that rhyme.

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Disorganized Schizophrenia

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Delusions of Persecutions, thinking someone is trying to hurt them or are out to get them

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Paranoid Schizophrenia

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Exhibit disordered thinking but no symptoms of other types of schizophrenia

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Undifferentiated Schizophrenia

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Engage in odd movements, remain motionless in strange postures, move jerkily and quickly

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Catatonic Schizophrenia

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A characteristic of catatonic schizophrenia

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Waxy flexibility

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States that high levels of dopamine seem to be associated with schizophrenia

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Dopamine Hypothesis

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Belief that people are out to get them

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Delusion of Persecution