Anxiety & Mood Disorders
While feeling anxious when standing at the edge of a building may be an adaptive emotional response to heights, being so anxious that you can’t ride an elevator is a(n) _____________________ response.
maladaptive
Liza suffers from schizophrenia. Often, she hears voices telling her to do things. These voices are called auditory ____________________.
hallucinations
Who developed psychodynamic therapy?
Freud
Implicit attitudes are not verbally or overtly expressed, while ______________ attitudes are.
explicit
The central route of persuasion uses rational arguments and logic, whereas the __________________ route relies on superficial cues that are not based in logic.
peripheral
What was the name of the baby that Watson conditioned to be afraid of white rats?
Little Albert
Which therapy was developed for the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Which therapy systematically addresses the cyclical relationship between thoughts, behaviors, and emotions?
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
This online test is used to measure unexpressed attitudes by pairing a concept (e.g., women) with an attribute (e.g., family-oriented).
Implicit Association Test
Mental shortcuts that enable people to make decisions and solve problems quickly and efficiently are called ______________.
heuristics
Feeling as if your family and friends would be better off without you is called ________________ and is a risk factor for suicide.
perceived burdensomeness
Who developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
Marsha Linehan
Who developed Person-Centered Therapy (Humanistic)?
Carl Rogers
We are likely to underestimate how long it will take us to do something. This is called the _______________________.
planning fallacy
The process of obtaining a small initial commitment in the hopes of then getting a larger commitment is called _________________________.
foot in the door
People suffering from PTSD are often jumpy, easily startled, fearful of their surroundings, and quick to anger. This is called _________________.
hypervigilance/hyperarousal
People with personality disorders tend to be _____________________; that is, most people are largely comfortable with themselves, with their characteristic manner of behaving, feeling, and relating to others, and therefore rarely seek treatment on their own.
ego-syntonic
What is the first line of psychotherapy used to treat PTSD, OCD, and phobias?
Exposure therapy
We tend to mimic the posture, mannerisms, and facial expressions of others without realizing it. This is called the _______________________.
chameleon effect
This is a term for unexamined racial bias that the person does not intend and would reject but that tends to make the person avoid inter-racial contact and feel uncomfortable.
Aversive racism
What is the name of the theory that proposes stressors that disrupt sleep or the daily routines that correspond to the biological clock (e.g., meal times) can trigger episode relapse in Bipolar Disorder?
Social Zeitgeber Theory
What type of psychotherapy (AKA not medication) is used to treat schizophrenia?
Cognitive Enhancement Therapy
Who developed mindfulness-based stress reduction?
Jon Kabat-Zinn
This psychologist studied obedience by telling people to shock confederates.
Milgram
This describes a belief that group hierarchies are inevitable in all societies and even good to maintain order and stability.
Social Dominance Orientation