This theory of emotion posits that emotions come after physiological responses to a stimulus.
What is James-Lange theory?
100
This is a type of test that gains insight to a person's personality by asking test-takers to describe an ambiguous stimulus.
What is a projective test
100
This is when people are more likely to agree to a large request after initially agreeing to a smaller request.
What is foot in the door phenomenon?
100
This emotional extreme is associated with euphoria, hyperactivity, and wild optimism
What is mania?
100
This behavioral therapy technique uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors.
What is counterconditioning?
200
This disease is closely linked to stress and is the leading cause of death in the United States
What is coronary heart disease?
200
According to Freud, this defense mechanism involves shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person.
What is displacement
200
This is when we adjust our behavior or thinking toward some group standard
What is conformity?
200
This subtype of schizophrenia is associated with delusions of grandeur or persecution, along with hallucinations.
What is paranoid?
200
This is a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.
What is systematic desensitization?
300
This is a coping strategy utilized when people do not feel they can change a situation.
What is emotion-focused coping?
300
This is the tendency for people to accept more responsibility for good deeds than for bad, and for successes than for failures.
What is the self-serving bias?
300
This is the process of losing self-awareness and self-restraint when in a crowd.
What is deindividuation?
300
After struggling with a challenging crisis, such as facing cancer, this often leads people to later report an increased appreciation for life, more meaningful relationships, and increased personal strength.
What is post traumatic growth?
300
This type of biomedical therapy is used to treat severe depression by inducing mild seizures.
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
400
This is the sense that we are worse off than others with whom we compare ourselves.
What is relative deprivation?
400
These 5 personality traits make up the "big 5", which are the main traits used to describe personalities today.
What are openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, neuroticism?
400
This occurs when people believe that good is typically rewarded and evil is typically punished in the world. In other words, the belief that people tend to get what they deserve.
What is the just-world phenomenon?
400
This eating disorder is characterized by significant binge eating, followed by remorse (but without purging).
What is binge-eating disorder?
400
This is a confrontational cognitive therapy that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions.
What is rational emotive behavior therapy?
500
These are the six emotions that are universally expressed across cultures.
What is anger, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise, disgust.
500
This theory posits that thinking about one's own mortality leads to an array of defensive behavior, such as showing contempt toward others.
What is terror management theory?
500
Is is the theory that all human interactions involve the goal of maximizing rewards and minimizing costs.
What is social exchange theory?
500
This is a psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions.
What is psychosis?
500
This is an approach to therapy that utilizes a blend of psychotherapies and biotherapies.