Psych 100 EXAM 3 CSCC
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- Mood Disorder
- Abnormal disturbance in emotion or mood
- Schizophrenia
- A psychotic disorder involving distortions in thoughts, perceptions and/or emotions
- Personality Disorder
- A condition involving a chronic, pervasive, inflexible, and maladaptive pattern of thinking, emotions, social relationships or impulse control
- Health Psychology
- Psychological specialty devoted to understanding how people stay healthy, why they become ill and how they respond when ill
- Behavior Therapy
- Psychotherapy based on the principles of behavioral learning especially operant conditioning and classical conditioning
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Delayed stress reaction
- Social-Cognitive Theories of Personality
- Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Cognitive
- DSM-IV
- -Manual -Psychiatric classifications system -Classified by mental and behavioral symptoms
- Type B personality
- Behavior pattern characterized by relaxed unstressed approach to life
- Principle of Proximity
- Notion that people at work will make more friends among those who are nearby with whom they have the most contact
- Matching Hypothesis
- Finding mates that are perceived to be about the same level of attractiveness
- Conscious
- Part of the mind that is capable of thinking, choosing, or perceiving
- Humanistic Therapies
- Treatment techniques based on the assumption that people have a tendency for positive growth and self-actualization, which may be blocked by an unhealthy environment that can included negative self-evaluation and criticism from others
- Major depression
- A form of depression that does not alternate with mania
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
- Objective measure of personality based on Jung's type theory
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- A form of depression believed to be caused by deprivation of sunlight
- Self-Actualizing Personalities
- Healthy individuals who have met their basic needs and are free to be creative and fulfill their potentialities
- Cognitive Dissonance
- A highly motivating state in which people have conflicting cognitions, especially when their voluntary actions conflict with their attitudes
- Problem-Focused Coping
- Responding to stress by identifying, reducing and eliminating the stressor
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Characterized by a grandiose sense of self-importance, a preoccupation with fantasies of success or power and a need for constant attention and admiration
- Cognitive Therapy
- Emphasizing rational thinking as the key to treating mental disorders
- Emotion-Focused Coping
- Responding to stress by controlling ones emotional responses
- Ego
- The conscious, rational portion of the mind
- Analysis of Transference
- Freudian technique of analyzing and interpreting the patients relationship with the therapist, based on the assumption that this relationship mirrors unresolved conflicts in the patients past
- Dissociative Disorder
- A group of pathologies involving "fragmentation" of the personality, in which some parts of the personality have become detached or dissociated from other parts
- Neurotic Needs
- Signs of neurosis in Horney's theory, these needs are normal desires carried to a neurotic extreme
- Diathesis Stress Models
- Genetic Factors place individual at risk while environmental stress factors transform this potential into an actual Schizophrenic disorder
- Anxiety Disorder
- Mental problems characterized mainly by anxiety
- Antisocial Behavior
- Characterized by a long standing pattern of irresponsible behavior indicating a lack of conscience and a diminished sense of responsibility to others
- Preconscious
- Part of the mind that contains information, thoughts, and feelings that are not present in conscious awareness but can readily be brought into the conscious mind.
- Social Norms
- Groups expectations regarding what is appropriate and acceptable for its members attitudes and behavior
- Fully Functioning Person
- Healthy, self-actualizing individual, who has a self-concept that is both positive and congruent with reality
- Antipsychotic Drugs
- Diminish psychotic symptoms
- Psychosexual Stages
- Oral, Analy, Phallic, Latency, Genital
- 3 C's of Hardiness
- Challenge, Commitment, Control
- Social Psychology
- Branch of psychology that studies the effect on social variables and cognition on individual behavior and social interaction
- Social Context
- The combinations of: People, Activities and interactions among people, Setting in which behavior occurs, Expectations and social norms governing behavior in that setting
- Electroconvulsive therapy
- Shock Treatment
- Projective Tests
- Personality assessment instruments which are based on Freud's ego defense mechanism of projection
- Expectancy-Value Theory
- Weighing the potential value of relationship against expectations of success in establishing a relationship
- Reflection of Feeling
- Paraphrasing the clients words attempting to capture the emotional tone expressed
- Coping
- Dealing with stress by reducing or eliminating stress for conditions and their effects
- ID
- Unconscious portion of personality that houses the basic drives and stores repressed memories
- Insanity
- Law term not psychological
- Dissociate Identity Disorder
- A condition in which an individual displays multiple identities or personalities
- Unconscious
- Part of the mind containing memories, thoughts, feelings, and ideas that the person is not generally aware of but that manifest themselves in dreams and dissociated acts
- Dissociative Fugue
- Like dissociate amnesia but with addition of flight from ones home, family, or job
- Situationism
- Environmental conditions influence people's behavior
- Token Economy
- Given tokens to people in group for desired behavior
- Discrimination
- Negative behavior
- Conformity
- Tendency for people to adopt the behavior and opinions presented by other group members
- Delusions
- A persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence
- General Adaptation Syndrome
- Pattern of general physical response that take responses that take essentially the same form in responding to any serious chronic stressor
- Type A personality
- Behavior pattern characterized by intense, angry competitive or perfectionist response to a challenging situation
- Fundamental Attribution Error
- Tendency to emphasize internal causes and ignore external pressures
- Dissociative Amnesia
- A psychologically induced loss of memory for personal information (identity)
- MMPI-2
- Measures serious mental problems
- Self-Serving Bias
- One takes credit for success but denies responsibility for failure
- Dispositionism
- View that behavior is caused by internal factors, such as genes, traits and character qualities
- Social Roles
- One of several socially defined patterns of behavior that are expected of persons in a given setting or group
- Stress
- A physical and mental response to a challenging or threatening situation Ex. Your response to that Angry man
- Psychosurgery
- Surgical intervention in the brain to treat psychological disorders
- Milgram's Obedience Experiment
- Experiment: Shocking the Learner
- Prejudice
- Negative attitudes
- Similarity Principle
- Notion that people are attracted to those who are most similar to themselves
- Depersonalization Disorder
- An abnormality involving the sensation that mind and body have separated
- Maslow's Humanistic Theory
- Need a theory that describes mental health as something more than just the absence of illness
- Self-Disclosure
- Disclosing personal information with someone you trust
- Psychopathology
- Mental disorder
- Aversion Therapy
- Presenting individuals with an attraction stimulus pained with unpleasant (aversive) stimulation in order to condition a repulsive reaction
- Hallucinations
- The perception of somebody or something that is not really there
- Group Therapy
- Psychotherapy done with more than one patient at a time
- Antidepressants and Mood Stabilizers
- Medicines that affect depression usually by their effect on the serotonin and/or nonepinephrine pathways in the brain
- Learned Helplessness
- Passive resignation following recurring failure or punishment
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Newer from of psychotherapy that combines the techniques of cognitive therapy with those of behavioral therapy
- Cytokines
- Hormone-like chemicals facilitates communication between brain and immune system
- Superego
- Mind storehouse of values, including moral attitudes learned from parents and society
- Traumatic Stressors
- A situation that threatens one's physical safety, arousing feelings of fear, horror or helplessness
- Therapy
- A general term for any treatment
- 5 Most Common Types of Schizophrenia
- Disorganized Type Catatonic Paranoid Undifferentiated Residual
- Systematic Desensitization
- A behavioral therapy technique in which anxiety is extinguished by exposing the patient to an anxiety provoking stimulus
- Client centered therapy
- Emphasizing an individuals tendency for healthy psychological growth thru self-actualization
- Personality
- Psychological qualities that bring continuity to an individuals behaviors in different situtations and at different times
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- Multidisciplinary field that studies the influence of mental states on the immune system
- Reward Theory of Attraction
- Attraction is a form of social learning
- ADHD
- Disability involving short attention span, distractibility, and extreme difficulty in remaining inactive for any period
- Chronic Stressors
- Societal Stress, Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Daily Hassles
- Cognitive Hardiness
- A resilient quality based on distinctive attitudes toward stress and how to manage it
- Borderline personality disorder
- An unstable personality given to impulsive behavior
- Stressor
- A stressful stimulus, a condition demanding adaptation Ex. Angry man climbing out of car you just ran into
- Bipolar Disorder
- A mental abnormality involving swings of mood from mania to depression
- Participant Modeling
- A social learning technique in which a therapist demonstrates and encourages a client to imitate desired behavior