HEALTH, STRESS & POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Positive stress that motivates people and improves performance.
What is eustress?
A pattern of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors causing distress or dysfunction.
What is a psychological disorder?
Repetitive thoughts that create anxiety.
What are obsessions?
Long-lasting maladaptive patterns of behavior and inner experience.
What are personality disorders?
A disorder characterized by persistent sadness and loss of interest.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
Freud’s technique in which clients say whatever comes to mind.
What is free association?
After surviving a hurricane, Elena experiences nightmares, flashbacks, and becomes extremely alert to any loud noises. Elena has ________disorder.
What is PTSD?
Theory describing the body’s response to prolonged stress.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?
The diagnostic manual published by the American Psychiatric Association.
What is the DSM 5?
Repetitive behaviors performed to reduce anxiety.
What are compulsions?
This cluster includes dramatic and erratic personality disorders.
What is Cluster B?
The elevated mood state associated with bipolar disorders.
What is mania?
This ethical principle means psychologists should do no harm.
What is nonmaleficence?
A therapist using the humanistic approach listens carefully, reflects the client’s feelings, and provides unconditional positive regard without judging them. This is also called ____________.
What is person-centered therapy?
This practice involves appreciating positive aspects of life.
What is gratitude?
Negative attitudes and discrimination toward people with mental illness.
What is stigma?
A disorder involving two or more distinct personality states.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
An eating disorder involving severe restriction of food intake.
What is anorexia nervosa?
Sensory experiences without external stimuli.
What are hallucinations?
A psychosurgery that is no longer practiced due to ethical concerns.
What are lobotomies?
Jordan has __________ disorder. He has has felt sad, tired, and unmotivated for the past three years. Even on good days, he describes himself as “empty” and struggles to enjoy activities he used to like. His symptoms are not severe enough to completely stop him from going to school or work, but they are always present and affect his daily life and relationships.
What is persistent depressive disorder?
The ability to recover from adversity and challenges.
What is resilience?
This perspective explains disorders using maladaptive thoughts.
What is the cognitive perspective?
Re-experiencing traumatic events through vivid memories.
What are flashbacks?
A disorder characterized by lack of empathy and disregard for others’ rights.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
The less intense version of mania often seen with bipolar 2 is called ______.
What is hypomania?
This medication is commonly used to treat Bipolar Disorder.
What is lithium?
Lucy can't sit still or focus in class. She's very disruptive and impulsive.
What is ADHD Combined type?
This theory says positive emotions help people build long-term resources.
What is the broaden-and-build theory?
This approach combines ideas from multiple psychological perspectives.
What is the eclectic approach?
Memory loss often linked to trauma.
What is dissociative amnesia?
An intense fear of open or crowded places.
What is agoraphobia?
This theory suggests schizophrenia involves overactive dopamine systems.
What is the dopamine hypothesis?
A brain stimulation treatment that uses magnetic fields.
What is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)?
Mark believes he has been chosen to become the next president of the world and insists he has special powers that make him more important than everyone else, despite no evidence supporting these beliefs.
This is an example of _______symptom of schizophrenia.
What are delusions of grandeur?
The first stage of GAS where the body reacts immediately to danger.
What is the alarm stage?
This model explains disorders as a predisposition combined with environmental stress.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
A neurodevelopmental disorder involving social communication difficulties and repetitive behaviors.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
This culture-bound anxiety disorder found primarily in Japan involves intense fear of embarrassing or offending others.
What is Taijin Kyofusho?
Reduced emotional expression commonly seen in schizophrenia and depression.
What is flat affect?
A therapy using gradual exposure to feared stimuli.
What is systematic desensitization?
After a stressful family argument, Rosa begins screaming, crying uncontrollably, trembling, and feeling out of control. Her family describes this as an intense emotional episode recognized within their culture.
Rosa is experiencing ________.
What is Ataque de Nervios?