Motivation & Emotion
Personality
Abnormal Behavior
Therapies
People
100
The body equilibrium.
What is homeostasis?
100
How you evaluate or perceive yourself.
What is self-esteem?
100
Another name for the "normal curve" that results from most tests.
What is a bell curve?
100
Saying whatever comes to mind.
What is free association?
100
Psychologist who developed the IQ test.
Who is Binet?
200
The structure in the brain that regulates many aspects of motivation and emotion.
What is the hypothalamus?
200
The hereditary aspects of personality.
What is temperament?
200
Disorders marked by feelings of fear and apprehension.
What are anxiety disorders?
200
Type of therapy focused upon rebuilding thinking, feeling and acting into connected wholes.
What is Gestalt therapy?
200
Psychologist who developed the inkblot test.
Who is Rorschach?
300
The cycle of changes that the human body experiences on a 24 hour basis.
What are circadian rhythms?
300
Freud called the energy for the entire personality this.
What is libido?
300
Type of anxiety disorder which is triggered by many different situations.
What is free-floating anxiety?
300
Improvement due to the passage of time.
What is spontaneous remission?
300
The psychologist who directed the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Who is Zimbardo?
400
The structure in the brain that specializes in producing fear.
What is the amygdala?
400
A discrepancy between one's experiences and self-image?
What is incongruence?
400
Internal motives, conflicts and unconscious forces of mental life.
What is psychodynamic?
400
Secondhand learning, as when someone with a phobia observes someone else confronting that phobia.
What is vicarious desensitization.
400
Psychologist who believed that when we are aroused we have a need to interpret our feelings.
Who is Schachter?
500
Refers to the phenomenon in which a stimulus causes a strong emotion and when the stimulus ends, the opposite emotion tends to occur.
What is the opponent-process theory?
500
The most basic traits to which all of a person's activities can be traced.
What is a cardinal trait?
500
Disorder in which ordinary life stresses push people beyond their ability to effectively cope.
What are adjustment disorders?
500
Occurs when improvement is based on a client's belief that therapy will help.
What is therapy placebo effect?
500
Linguist who believes that language organization is inherent, like walking.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
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