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An integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis.
What is the Biopsychosocial Approach?
The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present is called...
The Bystander Effect...
Overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders.
What is The Spotlight Effect?
A syndrome marked by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior is called...
What is a Psychological Disorder?
A hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in which dangerously poor judgement is common is called...
What is Mania?
The tension experienced when we become aware that our attitudes and actions don't coincide is called...
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increasing liking of them is called...
What is the Mere Exposure Effect?
A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic needs, and operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.
What is the Id?
Psychological Disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety are called...
What are Anxiety Disorders?
A disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the over-excited state of mania is called...
What is Bipolar Disorder?
A study done in the 1960's to determine whether a person would follow through with a command to shock someone even when they heard that person express pain is called...
What is Milgram's Obedience Study?
The enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group is called...
What is Group Polarization?
In psychoanalytic Theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.
What is Repression?
The concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital is called...
What is the Medical Model?
A disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, two or more weeks with five or more symptoms, at least one of which must be, depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure is called...
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
Nonconscious mimicry of the postures, mannerisms, facial expressions, and other behaviors of one's interaction partners, such that one's behavior passively and unintentionally changes to match that of others in one's current social environment is called...
What is the Chameleon Effect?
The tendency for people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get is called...
What is the Just-World Phenomenon?
Psychologist, Jean Twenge, has tracked self-importance across the decades and found this generation to be the "Generation Me" generation experiencing more of an inflated sense of self, and excessive self-love and self-absorption called...
What is Narcissism?
A widely used system for classifying psychological Disorders is called...
What is the DSM-5?
A disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts, actions, or both.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
The theory set forth by psychologist Albert Bandura which states that a person's behavior both influences and is influenced by personal factors and the social environment is called...
What is Reciprocal Determinism?
The tendency for observers, when analyzing others' behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition is called...
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error?
According to Abraham Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's own potential.
What is Self-Actualization?
A minutes-long episode of intense fear that something horrible is about to happen where a person experiences physical symptoms such as irregular heartbeat, chest-pains, shortness of breath, choking, trembling, or dizziness is called...
What is a Panic Attack?
A psychological Disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished, inappropriate emotional expression is called...
What is Schizophrenia?