Health & Positive Psychology
This type of stress improves performance and is often associated with positive events like going to college.
What is Eustress?
This diagnostic manual, published by the American Psychiatric Association, is used to classify mental disorders in the U.S.
What is the DSM-V?
This category of disorders develops during childhood and symptoms are typically due to abnormalities in one's brain structure and/or function.
What are Neurodevelopmental Disorders?
A treatment approach that involves applying principles of classical and operant conditioning.
What is Applied Behavioral Analysis/Behavioral Therapy?
An ethical principle a research psychologist needs to follow before beginning a study.
What is Informed Consent?
This stress response, more commonly observed in females, involves nurturing and seeking social support.
What is the Tend-and-Befriend Theory?
This perspective focuses on observable behaviors and learned responses.
What is the Behavioral Perspective?
A disorder that includes hypomania and depressive episodes.
What is Bipolar II?
A surgical interventions that is used to treat drug-resistant or particularly severe psychiatric disorders.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)?
If a researcher defines “stress” as a score on a cortisol test and a self-report scale, they are using this type of definition.
What is Operational Definition?
In this stage of General Adaptation Syndrome, the body’s resources are depleted, increasing susceptibility to illness.
What is the Exhaustion Stage?
This model explains disorders as the result of both biological predispositions and environmental stressors.
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
A category of disorders is characterized by dissociations from consciousness, memory, and identity, often due to traumatic childhood experiences.
What are Dissociative Disorders?
Most widely used medication for bipolar disorders; helps with mood stabilization.
What is Lithium?
The best research method to use to investigate a psychological disorder that psychologists have not seen before.
What is Case Study?
17-year-old Cory has exams coming up in three of his most challenging subjects. He feels too overwhelmed to study and decides to go listen to his favorite album instead.
What is Emotion-Focused Coping?
This of the Three D’s refers to behavior that violates cultural norms.
What is Deviant?
This personality disorder cluster includes disorders characterized by odd or eccentric behavior, such as paranoid personality disorder.
What is Cluster A?
A concept in cognitive therapy that describes negatives views about oneself, the world, and the future (common in depression).
What is the Cognitive Triad?
In a data set, a larger value of this statistic indicates that scores are more spread out from the mean, reflecting greater variability.
What is Standard Deviation?
Two actions explored in positive psychology that lead to an increase in subjective well-being (have to get both).
What is expressing gratitude and exercising strengths/virtues?
The approach that leads a psychologist to consider medicine and cognitive-behavioral therapy as treatment methods.
What is an Eclectic Approach?
Symptoms that characterize schizophrenic spectrum disorders (have to name at least 3).
A type of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) that teaches people skills to help them create a good life for themselves.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?
If a study on stress only includes college students, this limitation raises concerns about this concept when applying results to all adults.
What is Generalizability?