Disorders
This disorder is characterized by persistent sadness, hopelessness, and loss of interest in activities.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This therapy focuses on changing harmful thought patterns.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This perspective explains disorders through neurotransmitters, genes, and brain structures.
What is the Biological Perspective?
Psychologists commonly use this manual to diagnose mental disorders.
What is the DSM-5-TR?
This psychologist conducted the controversial “Little Albert” experiment.
Who is John B. Watson?
A person experiencing hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech may be diagnosed with this disorder.
What is Schizophrenia?
Sigmund Freud developed this therapy method focused on uncovering unconscious conflicts.
What is Psychoanalysis?
This perspective focuses on learned behaviors and conditioning.
What is the Behavioral Perspective?
This term refers to the consistency of a psychological test.
What is Reliability?
This experiment by David Rosenhan challenged the reliability of psychiatric diagnoses.
What is the Rosenhan Study?
This anxiety disorder involves unwanted repetitive thoughts and compulsive behaviors.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
This type of therapy uses rewards and consequences to shape behavior.
What is Behavior Therapy?
This perspective emphasizes unconscious conflicts and childhood experiences.
What is the Psychodynamic Perspective?
This term refers to whether a test measures what it claims to measure.
What is Validity?
This term describes the tendency to overestimate the impact of labels and diagnoses on behavior.
What is Labeling?
This disorder often develops after exposure to a traumatic event and may include flashbacks and hypervigilance.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
This biomedical treatment uses electrical currents to treat severe depression.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)?
This model explains disorders as interactions among biological, psychological, and social factors.
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
A false positive on a screening test means this.
What is identifying someone as having a disorder when they do not?
This neurotransmitter is strongly linked to mood and depression.
What is Serotonin?
This personality disorder is marked by instability in relationships, self-image, and emotions.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This humanistic therapist developed client-centered therapy emphasizing unconditional positive regard.
Who is Carl Rogers?
This perspective focuses on free will, self-concept, and personal growth.
What is the Humanistic Perspective?
This disorder involves physical symptoms that cannot be fully explained medically and are linked to psychological distress.
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?
This therapy technique gradually exposes clients to feared stimuli to reduce anxiety.
What is Exposure Therapy?