I’d Rather Be Sleeping General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about sleep disorders. Central Idea: Today I want to inform you on sleep disorders. First I will talk about insomnia. Second I will talk about sleep apnea‚ and finally I will talk about narcolepsy. Introduction Attention Getter: Do you know that awesome feeling when you get into bed‚ fall right to sleep‚ stay asleep all night‚ and wake up feeling refreshed? Well‚ me neither. I. According to The Institute
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Outline and evaluate the effect of anxiety on eyewitness testimony AO1 AO2 Yerkes Dodson law – states that there is an optimum level of anxiety for accurate eyewitness testimony. I.e. People who are not at all stressed‚ and people who are very stressed will be less accurate eyewitnesses that those who are under a moderate amount of stress. Loftus carried out a study of the ‘Weapon effect’. She set up two conditions of the experiment. In both conditions‚ participants heard a discussion in the
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Chapter 8- Psychological Disorders Neurosis: term used to describe disorders causing personal distress and impairment in functioning‚ but did not cause a person to lose contact with reality Psychosis: a serious disturbance that can cause people to lose touch with reality and to suffer from delusions and hallucinations 5 Perspectives on Psychological Disorders 1. Biological Causes: a PD is a symptom of an underlying physical disorder cause by abnormalities in the brain by genetics‚ heredity
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A.N.‚ hereafter known as An‚ is currently this author’s client at her internship site. An has been receiving services since March and has attended seven family sessions and two individual CCPT sessions. One of the latter was recorded by this author‚ with signed permission from An’s mother and the author’s site supervisor‚ to fulfill the requirements of this assignment. An is a ten year old‚ Caucasian‚ female‚ from a lower-middle class family that consists of herself and her two biological parents
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research topic: anxiety levels Manju‚ Sudheesh‚ Steffi Knes 204 For: Jennie Bradford April 17.2013 Sports and performance anxiety often go hand-in-hand. Anxiety before or during athletic competitions can hinder your performance as an athlete. The coordinated movement required by athletic events becomes increasingly difficult when your body is in a tense state. A certain level of physical arousal is helpful and prepares us for competition. But when the physical symptoms of anxiety are too great
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Psychological Disorders’ Presentation “Psychological disorders are behaviors or mental processes that are connected with various kinds of distress or impaired functioning (Nevid & Rathus‚ 2005).” Many people battle different kinds of disorders ranging from anxiety‚ dissociative‚ somatoform‚ moodiness‚ schizophrenia‚ personality‚ and many other disorders (Nevid & Rathus‚ 2005). Some are so mild that people do not recognize when they have it‚ and some are so severe that they become a
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University of Phoenix Material Psychological Disorders Etiology of Psychological Disorders Describe the following perspectives on the etiology of psychological disorders: Perspective Description of Perspective Biological Perspective Born with the disorder because of a person’s genes. Learning Perspective This is a behavior that is learnt through time. Cognitive Factors The way a person thinks controls the disorder. Diathesis-Stress Model Brought on by a life event. Personality
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interventions. Excessive caffeine ingestion leads to symptoms that overlap with those of many psychiatric disorders. Caffeine is implicated in the exacerbation of anxiety and sleep disorders‚ and people with eating disorders often misuse it. It antagonises adenosine receptors‚ which may potentiate dopaminergic activity and exacerbate psychosis. In psychiatric in-patients‚ caffeine has been found to increase anxiety‚ hostility and psychotic symptoms. Assessment of caffeine intake should form part of routine psychiatric
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Background Ankit is a 22 year old male‚ he is a first year undergraduate politics student. Ankit moved to university six months ago‚ he is from a small town located 200 miles away. His family is very large‚ consisting of six children of which Ankit is the eldest. Growing up Ankit felt isolated‚ his mother was often preoccupied with his younger siblings‚ and his father worked long hours. His relationship with his mother was pleasant‚ though Ankit never felt worthy of her time and rarely approached
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Major Psychological Disorders Psychological disorders affect a person’s everyday life‚ as well as the lives of the people around them. “Psychologist typically define abnormal behavior broadly‚ considering it to be behavior that causes people to experience distress and prevent them from functioning in their daily lives” (Feldman‚ 2009‚ p.518). In order to diagnose psychological disorders we need to be able to judge what normal and abnormal behavior is. In this essay I will address the topic of
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