Personality
Therapy
Psychological Disorders
Definitions
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Bandura proposed this perspective of personality development?

What is social-cognitive?

100

Dena goes to a therapist for her depression.  The therapist focuses on her childhood and unveiling her unconscious motives.  Dena's therapist is most likely this type of therapist.

What is a psychoanalytic/psychodynamic therapist?

100

The discovery that this disease could cause dysfunction in the mind led to the acceptance of the medical model.

What is syphilis?


100

a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy.

What is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?

200

Maslow is most well known for this.

What is hierarchy of needs?


200

Rona's therapist asked her to respond to a series of ambiguous inkblot images.  Rona is most likely responding to this kind of test.

What is a projective test or Rorschach Inkblot Test?

200

This tool created by the American Psychiatric Association's is the most widely used to describe psychological disorders.  

What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition? Or DSM-5?


200

A syndrome marked by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition,  emotion regulation, or behavior

What is psychological disorder?

200

Medications, ECT, and psychosurgery are all types of this.

What is biomedical therapy?

300

This is when agreeableness and conscientiousness increase with age and neuroticism decreases with age. 

What is the maturity principle?

300

Professor George is a humanistic therapist and believes having a growth-promoting social climate is essential to effective therapy.  This type of environment fosters growth through using these 3 characteristics.

What are acceptance, genuineness and empathy?
300

Susan's psychotherapist says her isolation is "maladaptive" which means it is interfering with this.

What is day-to-day life?

300

An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person may experience terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations.  Often followed by worry over a next possible attack.

What is panic disorder?

400

Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism are the traits known as these.

What are the Big Five factors of personality?

400

Compulsive fretting; overthinking our problems and their causes

What is rumination?

400

People who are high in this Big Five trait tend to have brains that are wired to experience stress intensely.

What is neuroticism?

400

The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition (internal factors), and environment (external factors)

What is reciprocal determinism?

400

AT&T used the assessment center approach because they believed the best way to predict future behavior is by know how the person performed in this?

What are similar situations?

500

Freud believed that memories are ________________, but modern psychology has shown that high stress and the hormones associated with high stress situations enhance memories.

What is repressed?

500

This is the number one reason people seek mental health services?

What is depression?

500

Suicide risk is tripled for those who have been _________.

What is anxious?

500

Behavioral techniques, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the thing they fear and avoid.

What is exposure therapy?

500

Effective treatments for depression are these 3 types of therapy.

What are cognitive or CBT, psychdynamic and person-centered?

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