A cluster of characteristics associated with all members of a specific group of people.
What is Stereotype
100
Personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregarding and violating the rights of others
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder
100
Disorder involving extensive memory disruptions along with the presence of two or more distinct identities, or “personalities”;
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder
100
Form of psychotherapy that involves one or more therapists working simultaneously with a small group of clients
What is Group Therapy
100
An anxiety disorder in which chronic and persistent symptoms of anxiety develop in response to an extreme physical or psychological trauma
What is PTSD
200
Adjusting your opinions, judgment, or behavior so that it matches that of other people, or the norms of a social group or situation. (Asch studied this by asking people to judge lines.)
What is Conformity
200
Flat affect, avolition, and alogia are examples of these type of Schizophrenia symptoms
What is Negative symptoms
200
Refers to partial or total inability to recall important information that is not due to a medical condition
Person develops amnesia for personal events and information, rather than for general knowledge or skills
What is Dissociative Amnesia
200
This medication is used to treat manic episodes
What is Lithium
200
Anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, global, and persistent symptoms of anxiety; also called free-floating anxiety
What is Generalized Anxiety
300
When the presence of others hinders an individual from intervening in an emergency situation
What is Bystander Effect
300
Mood disorder involving periods of incapacitating depression alternating with periods of extreme euphoria and excitement
What is Bipolar Disorder
300
Personality disorder characterized by a pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of the motives of others without sufficient basis
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder
300
Valium and Xanax are an example of this type of medication, prescribed to help people deal with the problems and symptoms associated with pathological anxiety
What is Benzodiazepines
300
Psychoanalytic approach in which a person spontaneously reports all mental images, thoughts, feelings as a way of revealing unconscious conflicts; usually done lying on a couch
What is Free Association
400
Reduction of self-awareness and inhibitions when person is part of a group in which members feel anonymous
What is Deindividuation
400
Delusion in which a person thinks they are someone famous and/or powerful such as Moses, Jesus, the president, etc
What is Delusion of Grandeur
400
Type of schizophrenia characterized by highly disturbed movements or action, bizarre postures or grimaces, or being completely immobile
What is Catatonic Schizophrenia
400
Approach to therapy that uses learning principles to directly change problem behaviors. Assumes that maladaptive behaviors are learned, just as adaptive behaviors are learned
What is Behavior Therapy/Behavior Modification
400
Mood disorder in which episodes of depression typically occur during the fall and winter and subside during the spring and summer
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder
500
The tendency for the presence of other people to enhance individual performance
What is Social Facilitation
500
Chronic, low-grade depressed feelings that are not severe enough to be major depression
What is Dysthymic Disorder
500
Comes from Greek meaning “split” and “mind
What is Schizophrenia
500
An irreversible motor disorder characterized by severe, uncontrollable facial tics and grimaces, chewing movements, and other involuntary movements of the lips, jaw, and tongue
What is Tardive Dyskinesia
500
mental illness marked by periods of great excitement, euphoria, delusions, and overactivity.