Open Wide and Say "Your Mother"
I Wanna Get Better
Cult of Personality
Psycho...logical Disorders
Things that Start with N
100
Freud's method for treating Psychological Disorders utilized this practice which depended upon resolving conflicts between the unconscious mind and the conscious rules of acceptable behavior.
What is psychoanalysis?
100
This type of therapy involves using multiple individuals all working together with a therapist to solve their shared or similar issues.
What is Group Therapy?
100
Psychodynamics argues that our compulsions and desires are made inaccessible by this component of the mind.

What is the superego?

100
In order for a thought or behavior to be considered a disorder it must be deviant and cause the individual afflicted to feel this.
What is distress?
100
This type of therapy is based the client being competent and involved in solving the psychological issues they are experiencing.
What is nondirective?
200
This is the predominate method utilized in Psychoanalysis involving patients speaking and thinking freely or by responding to prompts by the therapist.
What is free association?
200
This type of therapy seeks to boost self-esteem and sense of self-worth by using unconditional positive regard.
What is humanistic therapy?
200

According to the Humanistic perspective, we are driven to bring our actual self in line with this.

What is the ideal self?

200
Individuals with Depression are often low in both norepenephrine and and this neurotransmitter.
What is serotonin?
200
For a persons behavior or thoughts to be considered a disorder they must show a deviance from normal action or a social _________________.
What is nonconformity?
300
When a patient pauses or edits their thoughts during free association, they are said to be experiencing this.
What is resistance?
300
Expose therapy is a type of this broad approach to psychological disorders which has a focus on learning mechanisms.
What is behavioral therapy?
300

When encountering new situations, the behavioral perspective argues we engage in this comparison of the new situation with prior experiences.

What is generalization?

300
This mental disorder is caused by the production of maladaptive strands of proteins by neurons.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
300
Although it only sounds like it starts with the letter "n", this word implies that something is caused by internal factors...like depression.
What is endogenous?
400
Because Psychoanalysis involves the correction of unconscious thoughts, rather than conscious thoughts and behaviors, it is called "this" kind of therapy.
What is insight?
400
This type of therapy attempts to alter our thought patterns and emotional reactions to the world.
What is cognitive therapy?
400

In the socio-cognitive perspective, we use other people and their behaviors and consequences to predict our own. These other people are called this.

What are models?

400
Psychoses often have these inaccurate perceptions about themselves, like being royalty or persecuted.
What are delusions?
400
According to the Socio-cognitive perspective, some of the causes of depression are the result of a poor perspective of the world as a bad place where only bad things happen...and everything is bad. This type of thought pattern is called this.
What is a negative explanatory style?
500
Eventually, clients will perceive their therapist as their source of conflict, usually a parent. This process is called:
What is transference?
500
This is type of therapy involves the use of medication to treat psychological disorders.
What is psychopharmacology?
500

In the socio-cognitive perspective, we seek to optimize this aspect of ourselves which is a measure of what we can and cannot do well.

What is self-efficacy?

500
This Anxiety Disorder occurs after some type of trauma, but lasts only a brief period of time (less than four weeks).
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
500
This is the neurotransmitter involved in how "energetic" we feel and there is low in individuals with depression.
What is norepinephrine?
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