This approach emphasizes the importance of chemical imbalances in understanding psychological disorders.
What is the medical model
100
Happiness, anger, sadness, disgust, fear, and surprise are all considered to be this.
What are basic emotions
100
This type of personality tests requires that individuals answer questions about themselves and their actions and feelings.
What is self report
100
This is an unselfish interest in helping others.
What is altruism
100
This is something in the environment that causes a person to experience stress.
What is a stressor
200
This approach to therapy emphasizes unconscious drives and conflicts between the unconscious and the conscious.
What is psychoanalysis
200
This is an emotional reaction to a previous emotional reaction.
What are secondary emotions
200
This approach to understanding personality states that all individuals fall somewhere along a spectrum on all 5 clusters of attributes.
What is trait theory
200
This occurs when 1 individual changes his or her behavior to be more similar to that of the group.
What is conformity
200
This stage of General Adaptation Syndrome occurs when the body mobilizes its resources following detection of an environmental challenge.
What is the alarm stage
300
This type of therapy emphasizes the importance of changing negative thoughts and beliefs.
What is cognitive therapy
300
This type of motivation is based upon internal factors such as competence, challenge, and curiosity.
What is intrinsic motivation
300
This approach to understanding personality emphasizes individuals' positive characteristics, such as their ability to to grow and achieve.
What is humanism
300
This term is used to describe the phenomenon whereby individuals are more likely to attribute another person's behavior or situation to internal, dispositional causes instead of circumstances.
What is fundamental attribution error
300
This type of stress disorder occurs following the experience of a highly traumatic event, in which a person may relive his or her experiences through distressing memories and flashbacks.
What is post traumatic stress disorder
400
This type of disorder is characterized by disorganized thinking and erratic movements.
What is schizophrenia
400
This internal drive to achieve a given goal causes certain people to work harder than others to overcome adversity and may differ partly due to cultural differences.
What is achievement motivation
400
This trait in the Big 5 is associated with feelings of anxiety, stress, and negative affect (sadness).
What is neuroticism
400
This is displayed when someone associates their successes with personal causes and their failures with environmental causes.
What is self serving bias
400
This type of coping involves efforts to alter the emotional reaction to a problem, rather than actively confronting the problem
What is emotion-focused coping
500
This manual is responsible for helping physicians and clinicians classify, diagnose, treat, and understand cultural differences in an assortment of mental disorders.
What is the DSM
500
This is the effortful control of behavior in pursuit of a given goal.
What is self regulation
500
Individuals who are high in this trait enjoy going new places, having new experiences, and appreciate creativity and advancement.
What is openness
500
Ensuring equal status, increasing contact and cooperation, and encouraging empathy and perspective taking between groups are all ways to do this.
What is reduce prejudice.
500
The term The Hawthorne Effect was coined after a factory found that changes in lighting, humidity, management style, and breaks all impacted this.