The study of the effects of drugs on the mind and behavior.
What is psychopharmacology?
100
Empathic listening in which the listener echos, restates, and clarifies
What is active listening?
100
Used to treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and aviod
What is exposure therapy?
100
Engages people in reenacting the supposed trauma of their birth (no scientific support that it works).
What is rebirthing therapy?
100
A biomedical therapy for servery depressed patients in which a brief electrical current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?
200
A psychosurgical procedure where the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotional-controls centers of the inner brain are cut.
What is a lobotomy?
200
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmenal attitude that Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
What is unconditional positive regard?
200
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.
What is systematic desensitization?
200
The debated therapy where the client's eyes are guided through a series of movements that enable them to unlock and reprocess previously frozen memories.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)?
200
A mood-stablizing drug
What is lithium?
300
Xanax, Ativan, D-cycloserine
What are antianxiety drugs?
300
A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasingthe client's awarenes of underlying motives and defenses
What are insight therapies?
300
It uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are tiggering unwanted behaviors
What is counterconditioning?
300
SAD
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
300
The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity
What is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)?
400
Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil
What are antidepressant drugs?
400
Three hints to listen more actively, according to the textbook.
What are paraphrase, invite clarification, and reflect feelings?
400
A type of countercondtioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
What is aversive conditioning?
400
A common treatment given to clients to counteract winter depression.
What is light therapy?
400
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting
What is cognitive therapy?
500
A possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors
What is tardive dyskinesia?
500
One of the ways the humanistic therapies is different than psychoanalytical therapies.
What is focuses...
1) on the present and future, more than the past
2) conscious rather than the unconscious
3) taking immedate responsiblity for feelings/actions
4) promotes growth instead of curing illness
500
The practice of reinforcing desired behaviors, and withholding reinforcement or enacting punishment for undesired behaviors
What is behavior modification?
500
The three ideal components of evidence based, clinical decision-making.
What are...
1) Patient's values, characteristics, preferences, circumstantces
2) Clinical expereince
3) Best available research
500
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy