Depression

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SOCIAL OSSIFICATION

behaviour that is hard to change.

SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

1. A viewpoint to mental health and health, politics, history and other areas of human experience that emphasises the environmental

SPURIOUS CORRELATION

the situation where variables are correlated through their common relationship with one or more other variables but not through a

STIMULUS ERROR

an error in a response due to focusing on the meaning or semantic status of a stimulus instead of its

SUBLIMATION

In the psychoanalytic theory, it is a defence method which result from the unacceptable aggressive and sexual drivers but it

SUPPORT GROUP

Group that contains individuals with similar problems, who meet on a regular basis to share problems and get support and

SYNDROME

It is a group of the symptoms together with the signs that result to only one cause. They can indicate

SELF-DEGRADING

the negative images we project of ourselves where we think we are less able than we really are. To degrade

SELF-PERCEPTION

a person's view of themselves and of any mental or physical attribute that makes up the self. Also called a

SEROTONIN

A common monoamine neurotransmitter in the brain and central nervous system, gastrointestinal tract. It is synthesized from the dietary amino

SITUATIONAL ATTRIBUTION

1. Attribution theory. The attributes of your behaviour to the external or circumstantial causes. 2. The ascription of an event

SOCIAL DESIRABILITY

1. The extent that a person is considered to be a valuable member of a social group. 2. The bias

SOCIAL PENETRATION THEORY

a model that shows a close relationship will get closer as both people disclose more and more intimate things about

SOCIOGENIC HYPOTHESIS

the ideal that social conditions are the major cause of mental and behavioural disorders.

STAGES OF CHANGE

The 5 steps to bring a change in health behaviour: precontemplation; contemplation; preparation; action; maintenance. Referred as transtheoratical model. It

STIMULUS SUBSTITUTION

Is when one stimulus takes the place of another stimulus and response is similar in both. In Pavlov

SUBLIMINAL PRIMING

It is the stimulations on the unconscious and it increases the probability of later occurrence as well as the related

SUPPRESSION

person's effective try to stop thinking about negative things, or better said to try to gain control over undesirable thoughts,

SYSTEMATIC OBSERVATION

getting data in well ordered manner that will give reliable information about something.

SELF-DEROGATION

a tendency to disparage you that is usually unrealistic. To laugh on your own traits and acts that is not