This type of psychologist focuses on observable behaviors that have been learned
What is a behavioural psychologist?
100
This term refers to when a test measures what it is designed to measure.
What is validity?
100
This experience feels like a short bout of intense anxiety that may include difficulty breathing and nausea and comes on unexpectedly
What is a panic attack?
100
This is a general type of medication that primarily impacts the brain and aids various forms of mental illness.
What are psychotropic drugs?
100
This professional is a doctor first, then specializes in treating mental illnesses.
What is a psychiatrist?
200
This type of psychologist focuses on maladaptive thought processes
What is a cognitive psychologist?
200
This type of research study does not allow us to generalize findings to the larger population based on one instance.
What is the case study?
200
This term refers to the constant worry about just about anything, suffered by those with generalized anxiety disorder
What is free-floating anxiety?
200
This form of treatment administers electrical current through the brain mainly to reduce effects of depression.
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?
200
The most common of these include fears of snakes and heights.
What are phobias?
300
This type of psychologist focuses on an individual's ability to have free will and to self-actualize
What is a humanistic (or existential) psychologist?
300
One limit of this type of study is that we cannot determine cause and effect, though connections between two factors are established.
What is correlational?
300
This disorder is marked by a fear of places or situations where escape might be difficult.
What is agoraphobia?
300
Free association, dream interpretation, and transference are often part of this type of therapy.
What is psychodynamic therapy?
300
It's the behavioural part of OCD; the repetitive actions, constant cleaning or hand-washing, for example.
What is a compulsion?
400
This model seeks to understand how factors like culture, race, and gender affect behavior and contribute to abnormalities
What is sociocultural?
400
This type of research uses a control group and an experimental group to find a cause/effect relationship
What is an experimental design?
400
This theory of phobias explains why some types of phobias are more common than others
What is preparedness?
400
In this type of behavioural therapy, a person is taught relaxation techniques, then is exposed to the source of a fear in increasing intensity over time
What is systematic desensitization?
400
This is the term for when panic attacks are accompanied by thought disturbances.
What is panic disorder?
500
It's the model featuring conflicts among the id, ego, and superego to explain abnormality
What is the psychodynamic model?
500
In this type of study, the experimenter does not have control over any of it but just observes and records observations
What is naturalistic research?
500
This type of treatment for OCD involves exposing a client to an anxiety-provoking situation and then preventing them from performing their compulsive acts
What is exposure and response prevention?
500
Carl Rogers believed that therapy needed to include this: the strong, consistent message that his patients were good people