Interpersonal Behavior
Aggression that is planned or purposeful, such as a bully plotting to steal another kid's lunch.
The tendency for people to agree to a large request after first complying with a small request.
What is the Foot-In-the-Door Phenomenon?
Shock therapy; last line of treatment for depression and bipolar disorder.
What is ECT or electroconvulsive therapy?
Lists the current criteria that must be present to diagnose someone with a particular disorder.
What is the DSM (V)?
Depressive episodes that increase in the fall or winter due to lower levels of light.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)?
Cooperation can be demonstrated by this test or game.
What is the prisoner's dilemma?
Jess follows social norms in order to be accepted by her peers and not be ostracized by her classmates.
What is normative social influence?
Therapy perspective that places an emphasis on reaching one's potential and movement toward personal growth.
What is humanistic therapy (or client-centered therapy)?
Abnormal psychological experiences are believed to be illnesses with causes, symptoms, and possible treatments.
What is the medical model of disease?
_______ are the intrusive thoughts; _______ are the ritualistic behaviors people in engage in to reduce those intrusive thoughts (and associated anxiety).
What are obsessions and compulsions?
Experiencing affection, trust, and concern for a partner with whom your life is intertwined.
What is companionate love?
Uncomfortable feeling when your behaviors and attitudes do not match.
What is cognitive dissonance?
These antidepressants block the reuptake of serotonin.
What are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)?
Karl inherited a predisposition for Schizophrenia. He doesn't exhibit any symptoms until he turns 21 and is going through a stressful time at work and struggling with finishing school. This scenario best exhibits:
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
Disorder characterized by deviant behavior in childhood, usually involving aggression to people or animals, destruction of property or theft, or serious rule violations.
What is conduct disorder?
Knowing that groups provide us with valuable information and that others may actually have more knowledge about something than us, so we conform because we want to be correct.
What is informational social influence?
Greg ends up in the control group and is taking a sugar pill for his anxiety rather than the real drug. Greg believes his treatment is working. This is known as:
What is the placebo effect?
People do not develop in vacuum and mental disorders are the result of interactions among three different factors.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
The fear of public places (having a panic attack in that public place).
What is agoraphobia?
If I let my neighbor borrow some milk with the expectation that she will one day return the favor, this demonstrates:
What is reciprocal altruism?
The tendency to blame others' behavior on disposition, rather than the situation.
What is the fundamental attribution error (correspondence bias)?
Typical antipsychotics work to decrease this in the synapse.
What is dopamine?
Group of symptoms that cluster together in specific cultures.
What are cultural syndromes?
Social withdrawal, apathy, and poverty of speech.
What are negative symptoms of Schizophrenia?