Disease in which people believe they have one or more diseases, despite a lack of medical evidence.
What is Hypochondriasis?
100
Somatoform Disorder in which the individual experiences episodes of both mania and depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
100
A psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions.
What is Psychosis?
100
Technique used in Psychoanalysis in which the patient relaxes and says aloud whatever comes to mind.
What is Free Association?
100
The healing power of belief in a treatment.
What is Placebo Effect?
200
Disorder marked by mood changes, loss of energy or appetite, sleep disturbances, and feelings of worthlessness.
What is Major Depression?
200
When people have two or more distinct personalities, each of which is in control at different times.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
200
Characteristics that are present in Schizophrenia but which should be absent (ex: delusions).
What are Positive Symptoms?
200
In Psychoanalysis, this is the blocking of anxiety-laden material from consciousness.
What is Resistance?
200
The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request.
What is Foot-In-The-Door Phenomenon?
300
A type of retrograde amnesia in which a person forgets who they are, moves to a new place, and starts a new life.
What is Dissociative Fugue?
300
A Somatoform Disorder which is characterized by a split from reality and shows disorganized thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions.
What is Schizophrenia?
300
Underactivity of this neurotransmitter in the frontal lobes and overactivity of the same NT in the limbic system are associated with the positive and negative symptoms of Schizophrenia.
What is Dopamine?
300
Therapy which exposes people to situations or objects which they would normally avoid or escape.
What is Exposure Therapy?
300
Occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker's attractiveness.
What is Peripheral Route Persuasion?
400
The immediate cause of depression is the reuptake of this neurotransmitter which occurs too rapidly.
What is Serotonin?
400
This neurotransmitter is responsible for the fluctuations between depression and mania in Bipolar Disorder.
What is Norepinephrine?
400
A personality disorder in which a person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
400
Tool used in systematic desentisization which orders and prioritizes the intensity of an anxiety-provoking object or situation.
What is Anxiety Hierarchy?
400
Clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristis and preferences.
What is Evidence-Based Practice?
500
Personality disorder in which the immediate cause is low levels of dopamine and norepinephrine in the frontal lobes.
What is ADHD?
500
Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring patterns of behavior that impair social functioning.
What are Personality Disorders?
500
Neurotransmitters are reabsorbed into the terminal buttons after crossing the synapse and passing on the message.
What is Reuptake?
500
The goal of this therapy is substituting a negative response for a positive response to a harmful stimulus.
What is Aversive Conditioning?
500
The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent.