According to Freud these three components make up human personality, The first contains internal drives, the second makes the decisions, and the third is the judging parent/moral voice.
What are the id, ego, and superego?
100
This behaviorist term means you learn by watching others
What is observational learning?
100
Four D's that define abnormal psychology
What are Distress, dysfunction, deviance, and danger?
100
The most common category of abnormal psychology conditions
What are anxiety disorders?
100
In this disorder, a person avoids places where a panic disorder might occur.
What is agoraphobia?
200
A defense mechanism where a person transforms an anxiety-producing experience into its opposite. For example, if a person believes they might be gay and doesn't want to be, they may engage in homophobic acts against people who are gay.
What is reaction-formation?
200
In these type of personality tests, ambiguous stimuli are presented. The participant responds and the examiner interprets the response. For example, describing Rorschach inkblots or completing an open-ended sentence ("my father was...").
What are projective tests?
200
On this Axis the psychologist lists physical/medical conditions and disorders
What is Axis III?
200
A type of therapy proposed by Carl Rogers that includes unconditional positive regard, genuineness, and empathy. Be specific in the therapy.
What humanistic or person-centered therapy?
200
A type of biological treatment where a small electrical device is implanted under the skin to treat severe depression.
What is vagus nerve or transcranial stimulation?
300
The term for a criticism of the MMPI. The term means that the test differentiates groups of people, but responders may not be able to tell how a specific item relates to the criterion.
What is face validity?
300
In social learning theories of personality, this term means the extent to which people believe that life events are caused by their own actions or chance events outside of their influence.
What is locus of control?
300
A type of phobia in which the person has an intense fear of disapproval from others when speaking, eating, or performing in public. Occurs in approximately 13% of the population.
What is a social phobia?
300
These type of treatment focused on treating interactions among family members in order to improve an individual's psychological problem
What are family therapies?
300
In this historic model of mental illness, treatment might be done by exorcism of a demon.
What is a demonic model?
400
What researchers found that personality traits predict aggregated (overall) behavior patterns, but not behaviors in a single situation.
Who were Mischel and Epstein?
400
A defense mechanism where the person returns psychologically to a younger and safer time. For example, a 10 year old begins to wet the bed again.
What is regression?
400
A person experiencing this type of occurrence may have a decreased need for sleep, increase talkativeness, high energy, and may engage in impulsive behaviors such as spending sprees or sexual encounters.
What is a manic episode?
400
To treat phobias or anxiety as part of a systematic desensitization program a behavior therapist might have a patient list feared situations from most to least stressful. This list is called a/an...
What is an anxiety hierarchy?
400
This disorder is somewhat controversial as some people believe the presence of alters may exist because of therapist's influence to highly suggestible patients.
What is Dissociative identity disorder?
500
In this model of personality, it is believed that all people can achieve their full potential if allowed by society. Individual differences in personality result when conditions of worth from others are imposed on a person causing a mismatch between personality and innate disposition.
What is Roger's Model of Personality/humanist model?
500
This psychologist believed that memories of ancestors are passed down to us through generations creating a collective unconscious.
Who is Carl Jung?
500
These type of symptoms displayed by someone with schizophrenia are excesses or distortions of normal behavior. For example, hearing voices or other hallucinations.
What are positive symptoms of Schizophrenia?
500
In this cognitive behavioral treatment approach, therapists examine the activating event, patient's beliefs about that event, and the behavior consequences that result (ABC). Treatment focuses on changing irrational beliefs.
What is Ellis' Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy?
500
In this condition, a person feels a compulsion to pull out their hair followed by relief after pulling.