Chapter 12
The unjust treatment of people from a specific group.
What is discrimination?
The guidebook that lists different psychological disorders.
What is the DSM-5?
Psychological treatment for psychological disorders.
What is psychotherapy?
Attitudes that someone is consciously aware of.
What are explicit attitudes?
Anxiety disorder characterized by sudden terror attacks.
What is panic disorder?
Type of therapy in which patient is exposed to their fear in an effort to reduce it.
What is exposure therapy?
Two contradicting attitudes that cause an uncomfortable mental state.
What is cognitive dissonance?
When two or more psychological disorders occur at the same time.
What is comorbidity?
Drugs that can be used to treat psychological disorders.
What are psychotropic medications?
Event explanations that usually refer to external events such as weather.
What are situational attributions?
Cluster C of disorders of the self.
What are avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive disorders?
Type of therapy that combines aspects from behavior therapy and cognitive therapy.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?
Measure of how easy or hard it is to retrieve an attitude from a memory.
What is attitude accesibility?
Examples of negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
What are apathy, lack of emotion, slowed speech, and slowed movement?
Type of behavior therapy that is primarily used for children with autism.
What is applied behavioral analysis?