Chapter 10
What is personality?
A pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world.
What does social psychology study?
How people think about, influence, and relate to others
The relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation describes:
Anorexia nervosa
What is psychodynamic therapy?
Therapy stressing unconscious mind and early childhood
What is conformity?
A change in a person's behavior to coincide more closely with a group standard
The standards that the individual must live up to in order to receive positive regard from others is known as what theory?
Conditions of worth
Which concept refers to psychological discomfort from inconsistent thoughts?
Cognitive dissonance
Having two or more disorders at once is called:
Comorbidity
The bond and trust between client and therapist is:
Therapeutic alliance
What is altruism?
The concept of unselfish helping with no expectation of reward.
What is Self-efficacy?
The belief a person has that they can master a situation and produce positive change.
What theory explains how people seek causes for behavior to make sense of it?
Attribution theory
Viewing disorders as biological diseases reflects the:
Medical model
Describe evidence-based practice.
Integrating the best research and clinical skill for each client
Therapies that emphasize self-healing and growth:
Humanistic therapies
Cognitive affective processing systems, or (CAPS) was developed by:
Walter Mischel
The bystander effect predicts people are less likely to help when:
Others are present
Somatic symptom disorders are classified as:
Disorders showing distressing body symptoms
Therapy teaching relaxation to face feared situations:
Systematic desensitization
With respect to the three characteristics of abnormal behavior, when a behavior interferes with a person's ability to function effectively in the world, it is considered:
Maladaptive
What are the the big five factors of personality?
Neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
What is social facilitation?
The improvement in performance due to others’ presence.
The theory that stress and predisposition interact is:
Vulnerability-stress (diathesis – stress) model
What is Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT)?
Therapy combining thinking and behavior approaches
According to Rogers, a person's need to be liked, loved, and accepted by others regardless of their behavior is called:
Unconditional Positive Regard