Abnormal Psychology
The tool that American clinicians use to diagnose psychological disorders
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - 5th Edition (DSM-5)
A diploid cell formed from the sperm and the egg joining.
What is a zygote?
The five ways that people receive and express love. Helps people understand and articulate their needs to loved ones and partners, and can even help them better learn how to express love to others.
What are the love languages?
This is the name of UT Austin’s school mascot.
Who is Bevo?
The theory in which all aspects of the environment affect the individual and vice versa. Includes the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, microsystem, and chronosystem.
What is Brofenbrenner’s ecological theory?
Individuals with this diagnosis typically experience both positive symptoms (such as delusions and hallucinations) and negative symptoms (such as avolition, anhedonia, and asociality)
What is Schizophrenia?
The process when the female egg joins with the male sperm.
What is fertilization?
Behavioral theory pioneered by John Bowlby where the parent-child relationship affects the emotional and social development of children — often affecting interpersonal relationships beyond childhood.
What is attachment theory?
This animal lives on campus and is said to give a student good luck if they see it before an exam.
What is an albino squirrel?
This attachment style is seen when infants are unable to effectively use their caregiver as a secure base from which to confidently explore.
What is anxious attachment?
Clinicians typically use this intervention to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder.
What is exposure (therapy) and response prevention?
The name for programmed cell death.
What is apoptosis?
The single most influential factor in determining with whom you become friends and whom you form romantic relationships.
What is proximity?
UT’s first mascot. (Name and species)
What is a Pitbull mix named Pig?
The stage in Piaget’s cognitive development theory that includes animism, egocentrism, and contraption.
What is the preoperational stage?
This dissociative disorder is characterized by excessive/impairing anxiety and behaviors that are focused on real bodily symptoms.
What is somatic symptom disorder?
The type of cell division that cleavage falls under.
What is meiosis?
From Sternberg’s triangular theory of love, this type of love includes two of the three components: passion and commitment.
What is fatuous love?
This was the occasion in which the UT colors, orange and white, were first used by students.
What is the first UT baseball game?
Cooperative imaginative play where 2+ children participate in a scenario that is: recognizable to each other, mutually understood between actors, represents a specific persona, and represents common routines.
What is sociodramatic play?
The treatment that has been shown to be the most effective for treating for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
The process in which cells become specialized in structure and function.
What is differentiation?
The tendency for people to form social networks, including friendships, marriage, business relationships, and many other types of relationships, with others who are similar.
What is homophily?
This is the name of the set of bells installed in the Tower.
What is the Kniker Carillon?
This child-rearing style is restrictive and punitive (“because I said so…”), while the other allows discussion and makes reasonable demands in line with the child’s maturity.
What is the difference between authoritarian and authoritative child-rearing styles?