When an organism continues a behavior despite obstacles.
What is motivation?
The perspective that personality and behavior is motivated by unconscious desires.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
The classification system that provides a common "definition" for diagnosis.
What is the DSM-5?
The branch of psychology that uses science and theory to treat psychological disorders.
What is clinical psychology?
How emotions are displayed in particular settings.
The only defense mechanism Freud paid attention to: pushing things outside of your awareness.
What is repression?
Spells of intense terror and that feels like a heart attack with no warning.
What is panic disorder?
The relationship between therapist and client.
What is a therapeutic alliance?
The idea that humans have a series of needs to be met. These needs include physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
The perspective that is associated with unconditional positive regard and self-concept.
What is the humanistic perspective?
The type of a particular disorder that is associated with extreme manic episodes.
What is Bipolar I?
A part of psychoanalysis where the client will say the first thing they think of in response to a given word.
What is free association?
The idea that there is a level of arousal that is ideal for attaining goals.
What is optimum arousal theory?
The approach that all humans share a collective unconscious and that connects us all.
What is Jung's Analytical Theory?
The personality disorder associated with instability in relationships and self-image, using drugs or self-harm to cope, and having extreme emotions.
What is borderline personality disorder?
The type of therapy associated with humanistic perspectives.
What is insight therapy?
The idea that emotion occurs after a physiological reaction.
What is James-Lange theory?
The Big 5 personality traits.
What are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism?
The positive symptom of schizophrenia that is associated with not being able to move and the negative symptom of schizophrenia associated with not responding emotionally.
What is catatonic and flat affect?
The type of therapy associated with changing behavior that is the most common form of therapy these days.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?