Exam 3
This man argued that we have one general intelligence that is at the heart of all our intelligent behavior.
Who is Spearman?
What is Social Psychology?
This man is one of the most well known psychologists; he is know for studying the unconscious as well as the Id, Ego, and Superego.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This disorder is marked by excessive and uncontrollable worry, more days than not, for a minimum of 6 months; individuals may be jittery, agitated, and have difficulty sleeping.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
This type of therapy aims to combine cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy?
These tests intend to predict your ability to learn a new skill.
What are Aptitude Tests?
This term refers to when one adjusts their behavior or thinking toward a group standard.
What is Conformity?
This part of the Id-Ego-Superego structure seeks to gratify the Id's impulses in realistic ways that will bring long-term pleasure.
What is the Ego?
By the late 1700's, a treatment of boosting patients' moral by talking with them and treating them with gentleness, social activity, and cleanliness became the norm.
What is the Moral Treatment?
This type of therapy aims to help family members understand how their ways of relating to one another creates problems.
What is Family Therapy?
What is Savant Syndrome?
This error happens when we overestimate the influence of personality and underestimate the influence of situations.
What is Fundamental Attribution Error?
This known as the collection of guilt and lurking fear of punishment (perhaps by castration) from their father due to unconscious sexual desires for their mother and jealousy/hatred for their father.
What is the Oedipus Complex?
This occurs when a person experiences a fearful event and later develops a fear of similar events.
What is Stimulus Generalization?
This type of therapy treats anxieties by exposing people (in imagined or actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid.
What is Exposure Therapy?
This part of our Stress Response System is known to have 3 phases: Alarm, Resistance, and Exhaust.
What is the the General Adaptation Response?
This term describes the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal as opposed to when individual accountable.
What is Social Loafing?
The Id is known to rely on this principal.
What is the Pleasure Principal?
This disorder is marked by alternating between binge eating (usually of high-calorie foods) with purging (by vomiting or laxative use) or fasting.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
This type of therapy was developed by Carol Rogers and uses active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate client's growth; it is the most well known Humanistic approach.
What is Client-centered Therapy?
These individual argued that our physical reactions and or thoughts together create an emotions.
Who are Schachter and Singer?
This man created and ran what is known as the "Obedience Experiment" and demonstrated that individuals are willing to obey even if it means harming others.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
This defense mechanism is marked by shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person.
What is Displacement?
This symptom of Schizophrenia disrupts a person's awareness of the world around them; individual may react very little or not at all to their surroundings, and they may stand/hold posturing for long periods of time.
What is Catatonia?
These types of drugs aim to dampen responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli, such as auditory hallucinations and paranoia; they may have troublesome and life altering side effects.
What are Antipsychotic Drugs?