People
Associated with the rat experiment.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Science that specifically studies behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
A therapeutic technique developed by Freud that views the cause of disorders as unconscious conflicts.
What is psychoanalysis?
Sleep-related bruxism is also known as?
Nocturnal teeth-grinding
Emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal childhood conflicts in determining behavior.
What is psychoanalysis?
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
A technique sometimes used by psychoanalysts to uncover unconscious conflicts.
What is dream analysis?
Focus on helping people to understand and accept themselves, and strive to self-actualize.
What are Humanistic Therapies?
Hallucinations, delusions
What is schizophrenia?
Perspective that emphasized the growth potential of people and responsibility.
What is humanistic?
Associated with the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Maslow?
A medical doctor who has clinical training that can treat neurological illnesses and can prescribe someone with prescription drugs.
What is a psychiatrist?
Type of somatic therapy that passes an electric current through both hemispheres of the brain.
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
Unfocused tension, apprehension,and arousal
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
The perspective of psychology that is interested in the influence of the nervous system, hormones, and genes.
What is biological?
Founder of the psychanalytic school of thought, which focuses on the role of the unconscious on behavior.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Behavior technique used to treat phobias, in which a client is asked to make a list of ordered fears and taught to relax while concentrating on those fears.
What is systematic desensitization?
Therapies that produce bodily changes.
What are somatic therapies?
Two or more personalities control a person's behavior at different times.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
This perspective focuses on how processing, storing, and retrieving information influences our behavior.
What is cognitive?
Humanist psychologist who focused on the role of the self-concept and positive regard on personality development.
Who is Carl Rogers?
Revealed only as a result of the therapist's interpretive work when using the process of dream analysis.
What is latent content?
Commonly used for PSTD and anxiety disorders, prolonged exposure.
What is exposure therapy?
Recurring haunting memories and nightmares, jumpy anxiety, focus on possible threats after a traumatic experience
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder?
The perspective is that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without referenced mental processes. Associated with John Watson.
What is behaviorism?