Founder of the Psychoanalytic model, which had three primary facets: The structure of the mind, defense mechanisms, and psychosexual stages of development?
Who is Sigmund Freud
100
A severe expression of abnormal behavior?
What is a Psychological Disorder
100
Study of the nervous system and its role in behavior, thoughts, and emotions?
What is Neuroscience
100
Self-report questionnaire that assesses personal traits by asking respondents to identify discriptions that apply to themselves?
What is Personality Inventory
100
Reading, mathematics, or written expression performance substantially below the level expected relative to the person's age, intelligence quotient score, and education?
What is Learning Disorder
200
In his classic study examining why dogs salivate before the presentation of food, this russian physiologist initiated the study of classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov
200
The study of orgins, has to do with why a disorder begins?
What is Ettiology
200
A chemical that crosses the synaptic cleft between nerve cells to transmit impulses from one seuron to the next?
What is Neurotransmitter
200
Assessment error in which no pathology is noted (that is, test results are negative) when one is actually present?
What is False Negative
200
Developmental disorder characterized by the individual's consistent failure to speak in specific social situations despite speaking in other situations?
What is Selective Mutism
300
This American psychologists, who was a student of John B. Watson, was one of the first to use behavioral techniques to free a patient from a phobia.
Who is Mary Cover Jones
300
Psychosocial approach in the 19th century that involved treating patients as normally as possible in normal environments?
What is Moral Therapy
300
This system coordinates with the brain stem to make sure the body is working properly?
What is Peripheral Nervous System
300
A system of naming and classification (for example, of speciments) in science?
What is Taxonomy
300
Pervasive developmental disorder characterized by significant impairment in social interactions and communication and restricted patterns of behavior, interest, and activity?
What is Autistic Disorder
400
This Psychoanalyts was the first proponent of the field of ego psychology which concentrated on the way in which the defensive reactions of the ego determine our behavior.
Who is Anna Freud
400
A rapid or sudden release of emotional tension thoght to be an important factor in psychoanalytic therapy?
What is Catharsis
400
A chemical substance that decreases or blociks the effects of a neurotransmitter?
What is an Antagonist
400
A method od categorizing characteristics on a continuum rather than on a binary, either-or, or all-or-none basis?
What is Dimensional Approach
400
Impairment or loss of language skills resulting from brain damage caused by stroke, Alzheimer's disease, or other illness or trauma?
What is Aphasia
500
This theorists came to reject his teachers ideas and form his own school of thought, which focused on feelings of inferiority and the striving for superiority. He coined the term inferiority complex.
Who is Alfred Adler
500
Patients are instructed to say whatever comes to mind without the usual socially required censoring?
What is Free Association
500
A neurotransmitter active in the central and peripheral nervous systems, controlling heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration, among other functions?
What is Norepinephrine
500
Extent to which a disorder would be found among a patient's relatives?
What is Familial Aggregation
500
In genetics, genes that only slightly increase the risk of developing the disorder, but in contrast to the deterministic genes, these are more common in the population?