Stress, Health & Coping
Psychological Disorders
Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Social Psychology
Psychopharmaco-
therapy
100
The physiological reaction to threat in which the autonomic nervous system mobilizes the organism for attacking or fleeing an enemy.
The fight or flight response
100
Depression is most common in which gender?
Females!
100
The kind of therapy that is more cost and time effective but can be as equally beneficial as other forms of therapy.
Group therapy
100
This effect occurs because people are less likely to provide help when they are in groups than when they are alone.
The bystander effect
100
Relieve psychotic symptoms, including hallucinations, confusion, and delusions.
Anti-psychotics
200
The model that holds physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors.
The biopsychosocial model
200
The legal concept applied to people who cannot be held responsible for their actions due to mental illness.
Insanity
200
Weakens an undesired response to a stimulus by pairing that stimulus with an aversive stimulus.
Aversion therapy
200
This occurs when related cognitions/thoughts contradict each other.
Cognitive dissonance
200
Drugs that release chemicals that relieve anxiety or tension.
Anti-anxiety
300
A passive behaviour produced by exposure to unavoidable adverse effects.
Learned helplessness
300
Phobic disorder, panic disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder are all examples of what cluster of disorders?
Anxiety disorders
300
When a therapist creates a supportive emotional environment they are practicing what kind of therapy?
Client-centered therapy
300
These patterns of attachment are associated with lower self-esteem, higher rates of depression, and failed or less satisfying relationships.
Avoidant Attachment and/or Anxious-Ambivalent Attachment
300
Prozac and Paxil are examples of:
Anti-depressants
400
What is a burnout?
The physical. mental and emotional exhaustion caused by long term stress.
400
The main problem in diagnosing what type of disorder is that the categories often overlap, making diagnosis unreliable.
Personality disorders
400
_____________ therapy focuses on changing negative behaviours and beliefs.
Cognitive therapy
400
This occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmation of an association between social traits than they have actually seen.
Illusory Correlation
400
Xanax and Valium are examples of:
Tranquillizers
500
What is the Inverted-U Hypothesis?
It predicts that task performance increases with emotional arousal up to a point, then decreases.
500
There are 4 main contributors to the development of eating disorders. Name 2.
Genetics, cultural pressures, unhealthy family dynamics, disturbed thought.
500
A historically cruel and misguided medical process in which the tissue in the prefrontal lobe was cut.
A lobotomy
500
This route does not consider the consider the content of the message; instead factors such as the attractiveness/credibility of the source or conditioned emotional responses.
Peripheral route
500
What is tardive dyskensia?
An incurable neurological disorder characterized by ticks, twitching, and other involuntary muscle movement.
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