Trait theory of personality that includes openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
What is Five-Factor Model?
100
Measure of consistency and reproducibility of test scores during repeated administrations of a test.
What is reliability?
100
Characterized by persistent, repetitive, and unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions).
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
100
Characterized by grandiose sense of self-importance, fantasies of unlimited success, need for excessive admiration, and a willingness to exploit others to achieve personal goals.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
100
Focuses on removing obstacles that block personal growth and potential.
What is humanistic therapy?
200
The notion, proposed by Charles Spearman, of a general intelligence factor that is responsible for a person's overall performance on tests of mental ability.
What is the g factor?
200
Ability of a test to measure what it is designed to measure.
What is validity?
200
Characterized by intense feelings of anxiety, horror, and helplessness after experiencing a traumatic event such as a violent crime, natural disaster, or military combat.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
200
Involve a splitting apart of significant aspects of a person's awareness, memory, or identity. This type of amnesia is characterized by a partial or total inability to recall past experiences and important information. This type of fugue is characterized by suddenly and inexplicably leaving home and taking on a completely new identity with no memory of a former life. This type of identity disorder (DID) is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality systems in the same individual.
What are dissociative disorders?
200
Rogers' therapy emphasizing the client's natural tendency to become healthy and productive. Key techniques include empathy, unconditional positive regard, and active listening.
What is client-centered therapy?
300
Aspects of innate intelligence, including reasoning abilities, memory, and speed of information processing, that are relatively independent of education and tend to decline as people age.
What is fluid intelligence?
300
Observations or behaviors that result primarily from expectations.
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
300
Characterized by periods of both depression and mania.
What is bipolar disorder?
300
Freudian therapy designed to bring back unconscious conflicts, which usually date back to childhood experiences, into consciousness.
What is psychoanalysis?
300
Group of techniques that use the principles of classical conditioning, operant learning, and observational learning to modify maladaptive behaviors.
What is behavior therapy?
400
Knowledge and skills gained through experience and education that tend to increase over the life span.
What is crystallized intelligence?
400
Classification system developed by the American Psychiatric Association used to describe abnormal behaviors. The "IV-TR" indicates it is the text revision (TR) of the fourth major revision (IV).
What is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR)?
400
Characterized by physical complaints about conditions that are caused by psychological factors.
What are somatoform disorders?
400
Therapy that treats problem behaviors and mental processes by focusing on faulty thought processes and beliefs.
What is cognitive therapy?
400
Gradual process of extinguishing a learned phobia by working through a hierarchy of fear-evoking stimuli while staying deeply relaxed.
What is systematic desensitization?
500
Establishment of norms and uniform procedures for giving and scoring a test.
What is standardization?
500
Characterized by a strong, irrational fear of specific objects or situations that are normally considered harmless.
What are phobias?
500
Group of severe disorders involving major disturbances in perception, language, thought, emotion, and balance. Delusional beliefs, hallucinations, and disorganized speech and thought are three key characteristic symptoms.
What is schizophrenia?
500
Ellis' cognitive therapy to eliminate emotional problems through the rational examination of irrational beliefs.
What is rational emotive therapy?
500
Uses the principles of classical conditioning to create anxiety by pairing an aversive stimulus with maladaptive behavior.