Therapeutic Techniques
In this kind of therapy, abnormal behavior is viewed as learned.
What is Behavior Therapy
This person developed what we know as Psychoanalysis.
Who was Freud?
Similarity and familiarity have been used by social psychologists to explain this social phenomenon.
What is Interpersonal Attraction?
When an individual gives in to another’s wishes or requests.
What is Compliance?
This refers to the repeated exposure to something that at first makes you extremely nervous or psychologically affected is likely to trigger you less and less.
What is Desensitization?
The following is an example of this type of therapeutic technique: Bart, an alcoholic, was given an alcoholic drink that contained a substance that made him very nauseous and induced vomiting.
What is Aversive Therapy?
This individual developed the person-centered therapy approach.
Who was Carl Rogers?
This term refers to when an individual, who is part of a larger group, chooses to put forth less effort than other group members.
What is Social Loafing?
This famous researcher demonstrated the power of authority over an individuals' likelihood to obey.
Who was Milgram?
This type of psychological disorder is Characterized by a complete inability to form genuine emotional attachments to others.
What is Psychopathy?
This therapy is based on the assumption that abnormal behavior is due to faulty ways of thinking and believing
What is Cognitive Therapy?
This individual developed what is known as Rational-Emotive Therapy.
Who is Albert Ellis?
This researcher led a classic study on conformity.
Who is Asch?
Getting a person to agree to a small request first and then trying to get them to agree to a larger request later
What is the foot-in-the-door-technique?
This psychological disorder is often viewed as the precursor to Antisocial Personality Disorder and occurs in Childhood.
What is Conduct Disorder?
This therapeutic approach helps most with the development of interpersonal and social skills.
What is Group Therapy?
This individual developed a therapeutic approach that works to change maladapative behaviors by looking for, challenging, and then changing the irrational beliefs that underlie those behaviors.
Who is Aaron Beck?
This phenomenon explains the reason that the first impression of an individual usually sticks.
What is the Primacy Effect?
This can occur when individuals who are part of a group focus on preserving group solidarity at the expense of considering all possible alternatives or even failing to use rational thought in the process.
What is Groupthink?
The most common way to manage impulses and behaviors of serial killers in prison.
What is Reward Based Treatment?
This therapy most often explains an individuals current difficulty by uncovering repressed childhood issues.
What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
Fritz Perls developed this type of therapy that uses techniques such as the Empty Chair.
What is Gestalt Therapy?
This occurs when a person assigns causes to another individual's behavior and assumes that the behavior is due to the situation that the individual finds themselves in.
When a person assumes that an attractive individual is also kind, sociable, and exciting they are giving in to this social pscyhology phenomenon.
What is the Halo Effect?
This disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self image, and affects, and is also most common among female serial killers.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?