Mood Disorders and Dissociative Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Treatments
Grab bag
Social Psychology
100
prolonged, very severe depression that lasts without remission for at least 2 weeks
What is major depression
100
An anxiety disorder tied to a specific traumatic event or set of events
What is PTSD?
100
A key feature of Carl Rogers client-centered therapy.
What is Unconditional positive regard?
100
An unwanted thought, word, phrase, or image that persistently and repeatedly comes into a person’s mind and causes distress
What is an obsession?
100
Tendency of people to adjust their behavior to what others are doing or to adhere to the norms of their culture
What is conforming?
200
Mood disorder characterized by mood levels that swing from severe depression to extreme euphoria
What is bipolar disorder?
200
fear of failing or being embarrassed in public
What is social phobia
200
Used to help clients overcome specific phobias by exposing them to various levels of exposure while using methods of relaxation.
What is systematic desensitization?
200
The causes of a disorder
What is etiology?
200
Schemas of how people are likely to behave based simply on groups to which they belong
What are stereotypes?
300
Less severe, but long-lasting depression that lasts for at least 2 years
What is dysthymia?
300
recurrent, unexpected panic attacks
What is panic disorder
300
A therapy with the goal to change people’s thoughts/beliefs, make them realistic and rational
What is Cognitive therapy?
300
Percentage of people that have a disorder
What is the prevalence?
300
Preferential treatment of certain people, usually driven by prejudicial attitudes
What is discrimination?
400
selective loss of memory surrounding traumatic events which may include a loss of identity without replacement with a new one
What is dissociative amnesia?
400
Fear of a specific object or situation
What is a phobia?
400
Drugs that work best on the positive symptoms of schizophrenia
What are antipsychotic drugs?
400
The psychologist who conducted the classic experiment on obedience wherein a “teacher” was given orders to electrically shock a “learner”
Who is Stanley Milgram?
400
The feeling of discomfort caused by holding two contrary attitudes and acknowledging the validity of both arguments is called
What is cognitive dissonance?
500
Very rare disorder in which 2 or more distinct personalities are manifested by the same person at different times
What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)?
500
unfocused, non-specific experience of anxiety to the point in which life is impacted
What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
500
Combines techniques for restructuring irrational thoughts with operant and classical conditioning techniques to shape desirable behaviors
What is Cognitive Behavioral therapy (CBT)?
500
An explanation of why people are less likely to provide needed help when they are in groups than when they are alone
What is the bystander effect?
500
The tendency to attribute our own successes to internal causes but attribute our failures to external causes
What is a self-serving bias?
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