Anxiety Disorders

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IN VIVO DESENSITIZATION

Used to reduce and eliminate phobias when a client is exposed to stimuli that induces anxiety. The therapist will produce

INTERRUPTED-TIME-SERIES DESIGN

Experimental de-sign with an intervention and the effects of it are compared and evaluated with an outcome that is measured

INTROVERSION-EXTRAVERSION

Self orientation from introversion the range or continuum characterised by inward and concerns self directed and behaviours to extraversion, characterised

KNOWLEDGE FUNCTION OF AN ATTITUDE

A positive attitude toward a friend may assist in attributing that person's negative behaviour to situational factors rather that personal

FACILITATION

is the change or difference in the strength of a stimulus which follows a potentially weaker stimulus at a neuron.

FECHNER'S LAW

a law that relates subjective experience to changes in stimulus intensity. This psychophysical formula proposes that the sensation experienced is

FOLLOW-UP STUDY

the study undertaken to see if the short term effects of a therapy will continue after a certain period of

FRUSTRATION-AGGRESSION HYPOTHESIS

States that frustration produces aggression and aggression results from prior frustrations. Later noted by Neal Miller that frustration leads to

FUTURE-MINDEDNESS

the term used for the ability to engage in means to end future about the future. Being able to think

GLOBAL PERCEPTION

This term is applied to the overall perception of an object or a situation focusing on the whole rather than

IN VIVO EXPOSURE THERAPY

A person is exposed to situations provoking anxiety in a real world condition to try to master the anxiety and

INTERSTIMULUS INTERVAL (1S1)

Stimulus and the time between presentations, and are timed usually from one end of the presentation stimulus and to the

INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS

The flow of ongoing events that are mental and interrupt task related thoughts in spite of persistent efforts to avoid

KSAOS

Knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics and the abbreviation

FACILITATIVE ANXIETY

is a particular level of anxiety which an individual, normally an athlete, would consider to actually become advantageous to their

FEELING

1. The self contained experience of phenomena. The feelings are subjective and are independent of the sensory modality. 2. Any

FOOD FADDISM

the dietary practice based on exaggerated and often incorrect beliefs about the effects of food or nutrition on health, particularly

FRUSTRATIVE NONREWARD HYPOTHESIS

a proposition that consistently withholding reinforcement of responses during operant or instrumental conditioning leads to an internal state of frustration

GAF SCALE

Abbreviation of global assessment of functioning that is a numerical scale from 1 -100 used by mental health practitioners.

GLUCURONIDATION

Name of the metabolic process where drugs and other substances are combined with glucuronic acid to form more water soluble