False belief that is a positive symptom of schizophrenia.
What is a delusion?
100
Non-directive, insight-oriented therapy that includes unconditional positive regard, congruence, and empathy.
What is person-centered therapy?
100
behavioral technique based on classical conditioning that is used to treat phobias, in which a client is asked to make a list of ordered fears and taught to relax while concentrating on those fears
What is systematic desensitization?
100
Experiment that studied obedience by observing if a participant would administer unpleasant shocks if an experimenter in a lab coat instructed them to.
What is the Milgram shock study?
100
Method of gaining compliance by asking for a large commitment and then, after being refused, asking for a smaller commitment
What is the door-in-the-face technique?
200
Disorder with mood swings from extreme happiness (mania) to severe depression
What is bipolar disorder?
200
Type of therapy that involves actively giving interpretations, even suggesting certain behavior or actions
What is directive therapy?
200
Perspective that explains anxiety disorders as chemical imbalances or genetic predispositions.
What is the biological perspective?
200
Experiment that examined individuals' susceptibility to conformity based on the responses of research confederates that were involved in the study.
What is Asch's line study?
200
Group behavior principle in which people who are lazy tend not to do as well when other people are also working on the same task, but they can do quite well when working on their own
What is social loafing?
300
Fear of being in a place or situation from which escape is difficult or impossible.
What is agoraphobia?
300
Psychopharmacological treatments such as SSRIs, MAOIs, or tricyclics.
What are antidepressants?
300
Assumptions that a biological sensitivity, or vulnerability, to a certain disorder that will develop under the right conditions of environmental or emotional stress
What is the stress-vulnerability model?
300
Study examining the realistic conflict theory involving developing prejudiced attitudes through development of in-groups and out-groups with boys at a summer camp.
What is Sherif's Robber's Cave experiment?
300
the effect when members of a stereotyped group are made anxious and wary of any situation in which their behavior might confirm a stereotype
What is stereotype threat?
400
Psychological disorder that involves traveling away from familiar surroundings with amnesia for the trip and possible amnesia for personal information.
What is dissociative fugue?
400
Modern perspective of a directive, insight-oriented therapy that involves analysis of transference, defense mechanisms, and early attachment relationships.
What is psychodynamic therapy?
400
action-oriented psychotherapy that teaches individuals to identify, challenge, and replace their self-defeating thoughts/beliefs with healthier thoughts that promote emotional well-being and goal achievement
What is REBT?
400
Experiment examining the influence of social roles on aggression that included participants as prisoners and guards.
What is Zimbardo's Stanford prison study?
400
the tendency to overestimate the influence of internal factors in determining behavior while underestimating situational factors
What is the fundamental attribution error?
500
Category of personality disorders that involves anxiety or fearfulness, including Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders.
What is Cluster C?
500
Component of the common factors approach that is most effective.
What is therapeutic alliance?
500
Explanation for depression as the result of irrational, maladaptive thinking, such as relying on distortions such as "all-or-nothing thinking".
What is the cognitive perspective?
500
Case study of a woman who died from a violent crime due to the bystander effect, which prevented her neighbors from coming to her aid.
What is the Kitty Genovese case?
500
sense of discomfort or distress that occurs when a person’s behavior does not correspond to that person’s attitudes