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This hormone is released in response to stress.
What is Cortisol?
The study of symptoms and causes of mental distress and the various treatments for behavioral and mental disorders.
What is psychopathology?
A technique focused on interpreting the hidden meanings in dreams.
What is dream analysis?
What is the type of reliability that assesses whether we get the same results when a measure is given at two different points in time?
What is test-retest reliability?
This brain structure plays a central role in triggering a state of fear or anxiety.
What is the amygdala?
"I believe that drinking OJ before an exam will raise a person's test score." This statement is an example of what in research?
What is a hypothesis?
A proposed course of therapy, usually developed collaboratively by a therapist and client, that addresses the client's most distressing mental health symptoms.
What is a treatment plan?
This method involves telling your therapist whatever comes to your mind, regardless of how illogical or embarrassing it may seem.
What is free association?
What is the type of validity that assesses how well a test predicts a person's behavior or response?
What is predictive validity?
This disorder involves having an intense fear of being scrutinized or doing something embarrassing or humiliating in the presence of others.
What is social anxiety disorder?
Research that examines the rate and distribution of mental disorders in the population.
What is epidemiological research?
This term is used to refer to the existence of a disorder during any part of a person's life.
What is lifetime prevalence?
This defense mechanism involves preventing forbidden or dangerous thoughts or desires from entering into one's consciousness.
What is repression?
These tests allow noninvasive visualizations of brain structures.
What are neurological tests?
Name the 4 dimensions of the multipath model.
What are biological, psychological, social, and sociocultural?
The group of deep brain structures associated with emotions, decision making, and memory formation.
What is the limbic system?
What contemporary model of abnormal psychology believes that those with mental illness can recover and live satisfying, hopeful, and contributing lives.
What is the recovery movement?
This technique involves gradually introducing a person to feared objects/situations.
What is graduated exposure?
These tests are designed to reveal attitudes, unconscious conflicts, and personality characteristics.
What are projective personality tests?
An episode of intense fear accompanied by various physiological symptoms.
What is a panic attack?
This personality test includes ten clinical scales and several validity scales to check for faking, confusion, falsification, or other response patterns that may affect the outcome of the other scales.
What is the MMPI-2?
Dr. Barnes explains his clients' psychological problems by considering biological, psychological, social, and sociocultural explanations, which is referred to as this in your text.
What is the multipath model?
What is the key feature of humanistic therapy?
Measurable characteristics that give clues as to the specific genes involved in disorders.
What are endophenotypes?
This therapy technique focuses on patients' irrational and maladaptive thoughts.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?