Chapter 14
This is the term used to describe the perception of and response to events that are appraised as threatening, overwhelming, or challenging.
What is stress?
These are any pattern of behavior that causes people significant distress, causes them to harm others, or harms their ability to function in daily life
What are psychological disorders?
This is therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem talks with a psychological professional.
What is psychotherapy?
These are the special photoreceptors that allows one to see in color.
What are cones?
This is the effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being.
What is Eustress?
This is a psychological manual of disorders and their symptoms.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5th edition (DSM-5)?
This is a behavior technique used to treat phobias, in which a client is asked to make a list of ordered fears and taught to relax while concentrating on those fears
What is systematic desensitization?
This is the psychologist who studied classical conditioning by using dogs.
Who was Ivan Pavlov?
These are the daily annoyances of everyday life.
What are hassles?
This disorder causes one to forget who they are with no medical cause.
What is dissociative Amnesia?
This is a treatment method where magnets stimulate the nerves to treat depressed individuals.
What is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation?
What stage of sleep has the most wild and vivid dreams?
What is REM sleep/ REM stage?
This is our beliefs about our personal capacity to exert influence over and shape outcomes.
What is Perceived Control?
This use to be called multiple personality disorder.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
This is when a person puts all their emotion from someone else onto the therapist.
What is transference?
This form of memory has the shortest time.
What is sensory memory (specifically iconic)?
This consists of 43 life events that require varying degrees of personal readjustment.
What is the social readjustment rating scale (SRRS)?
This is the fear of not having one's phone.
What is nomophobia?
This is a therapy where we challenge negative thinking and maladaptive behaviors.
What is Cognitive behavioral Therapy?
This famous experiment showed that people will go to extreme lengths to be obedient if the command is coming from an authority figure.
What was the Milgram experiment?