Final exam Extra Credit 2

2. personality structure discussed by Freud that consists of all the information in our immediate awareness
4. the chemical basis of heredity' a double-stranded molecule tht encodes genetic intructions.
6. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition.
7. hormone involved in acute or short-term stress reaction.
9. is defined as a negative attitude toward people who belong to a specific social group.
11. when we take our feelings out on a less threatening object instead of the things or person we are really upset with.
12. the forces that act upon us to activate and direct behavior
14. is a persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, situation, or activity.
15. term for the different personalites that emerge in DID

1. the limbic system structure that is involved in emotions, particuarly negative emotions.
3. a state of being in which people are fully realizing the highest level of their potential.
5. are defined as the reasons we give to explain our own behavior and the behavior of other people.
6. when we fail to recognize or acknowledge information that we just can't deal with.
8. An individual's unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.
10. a negative emotional state that occurs in response to events we perceive as being beyond our ability to cope.
13. A substance that can cause birth defects