Therapy Unlocked
A therapist helps a client identify and challenge negative automatic thoughts.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
A student struggles to form new memories after an injury to this brain structure. Which one?
Hippocampus
A student studies more effectively in short, repeated sessions rather than one long session. This reflects which principle of learning?
Distributed Practice
A student temporarily holds and manipulates information while solving a problem.
Working Memory
A person overestimates how much others notice their appearance or behavior.
Spotlight Effect
A therapist focuses on irrational beliefs using the ABCDEF framework.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
A person shows increased alertness due to activation of this brainstem system
Reticular Activating System (RAS)
A person becomes more productive when tasks are broken into smaller achievable goals. This reflects which psychological principle?
Goal Setting Theory
A learner groups information into meaningful units to improve recall.
Chunking
People change their behavior because they know they are being observed.
Hawthorne Effect
A therapist encourages non-judgmental awareness of thoughts while promoting value-based action.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
A patient can understand language but struggles to produce fluent speech.
Broca’s Area (Broca’s Aphasia)
A student performs better in exams when the study environment matches the exam environment. This reflects which memory principle?
Encoding Specificity Principle
Recall improves when the learning and retrieval environments are similar.
Encoding Specificity Principle
People believe others share their beliefs more than they actually do
False Consensus Effect
A structured therapy that combines behavioral techniques with mindfulness and distress tolerance skills.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
A person experiences heightened reward sensitivity due to increased activity in this pathway.
Mesolimbic Dopamine Pathway
A therapist helps a client reduce phobic reactions by gradually exposing them to feared stimuli in a controlled hierarchy. This technique is based on which principle?
Systematic Desensitization
A learner recalls incomplete tasks better than completed ones.
Zeigarnik Effect
A delayed persuasive message becomes more influential over time.
Sleeper Effect
A therapy that integrates past relational patterns with present experiences using reformulation and mapping techniques.
Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
A patient can see but cannot recognize familiar faces
Prosopagnosia (associated with fusiform gyrus dysfunction)
An organization improves employee productivity by redesigning tasks to increase intrinsic motivation and autonomy. This aligns with which theory?
Self-Determination Theory
Previously learned information is disrupted by newly learned material.
Retroactive Interference
People perceive differences between groups as larger than they actually are
Outgroup Homogeneity Effect