A person's response to events that are threatening or challenging.
What is stress?
100
Behavior that causes people to experience distress and prevents them from functioning in their daily lives.
What is abnormal behavior?
100
The experience of long-term, persistent anxiety and worry.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
100
Treatment in which a trained professional - a therapist - uses psychological techniques to help a person overcome psychological difficulties and disorders, resolve problems in living, or bring about personal growth.
What is psychotherapy?
100
An approach that focuses on the family and its dynamics.
What is family therapy?
200
A cluster of behaviors characterized by a patient, cooperative, noncompetitive, and nonaggressive manor.
What is Type B behavior pattern?
200
An extended state of intense, wild elation.
What is mania?
200
A severe form of depression that interferes with concentration, decision making, and sociability.
What is major depression?
200
Therapy in which people meet in a group with a therapist to discuss problems.
What is group therapy?
200
Control of psychological disorders through the use of drugs.
What is drug therapy?
300
A negative emotional and cognitive reaction that results from the restriction of one's freedom.
What is subjective well-being?
300
Intense, irrational fears of specific objects or situations.
What are phobias?
300
A persistent, unwanted thought or idea that keeps recurring.
What is an obsession?
300
Therapy in which the goal is to reach one's potential for self actualization.
What is person-centered therapy?
300
Recovery without treatment.
What is spontaneous remission?
400
A theory developed by Selye that suggests that a person's response to a stressor consists of three stages: alarm and mobilization, resistance, and exhaustion.
What is general adaptation syndrome (GAS)?
400
A disorder characterized by a set of inflexible, maladaptive behavior patterns that keep a person from functioning appropriately in society.
What is a personality disorder?
400
A class of disorders in which severe distortion of reality occurs.
What is schizophrenia?
400
A procedure used in the treatment of severe depression in which an electric current of 70-150 volts is briefly administered to a patient's head.
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?
400
Therapy that seeks to bring unresolved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses from the unconscious into the conscious, where patients may deal with the problems more effectively.
What is psychodynamic therapy?
500
The study of the relationship among psychological factors, the immune system, and the brain.
What is psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)?
500
A system devised by the American Psychiatric Association, used by most professionals to diagnose and classify abnormal behavior.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR)?
500
A disorder in which a significant, selective memory loss occurs.
What is dissociative amnesia?
500
Treatment approaches that build on the basic processes of learning, such as reinforcement and extinction, and assume that normal and abnormal behavior are both learned.
What are behavioral treatment approaches?
500
A treatment approach that incorporates basic principles of learning to change the way people think.