Social Psychology
The tendency to attribute our successes to internal, personal factors, and our failures to external, situational factors
What is the self-serving bias?
This term refers to mental or behavioral efforts used to manage problems relating to stress, including the cause and the unpleasant feelings and emotions it produces.
What is coping?
This classification system is used by most mental health professionals in the United States of America.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
In Medieval times, this would be the most likely form of treatment for someone suffering the symptoms of a psychological illness.
What is an exorcism?
A study that only lasted six days instead of the planned 2 weeks because it found that social roles are powerful determinants of human behavior.
What is the Standford Prison Experiment?
The kind of stress that exceeds the optimal level, is no longer a positive force, and becomes excessive and debilitating.
What is distress?
Co-occurrence of two disorders.
What is comorbidity?
This institutional setting replaced asylums in caring for the mentally ill.
What are psychiatric hospitals?
Suppose you are walking down a street. A woman has fallen down, but because there are so many people around it does not occur to you that you should help. You just assume someone else is about to help her and keep walking.
What is the diffusion of responsibility or the bystander effect?
A stress-reduction technique whereby electronic equipment measuring a person’s involuntary (neuromuscular and autonomic) activity helps him gain a level of voluntary control over these processes.
What is biofeedback?
Are characterized by excessive, persistent fear and worry that is accompanied by disturbances in behaviors.
What are anxiety disorders?
A system of operant conditioning used for behavior therapy that involves rewarding desirable behaviors with something like a sticker which can be exchanged for items or privileges (as food or free time) and punishing undesirable behaviors (as destruction or violence) by taking away stickers.
What is a token economy?
A change in behavior that is deemed necessary in order to fit in a particular group.
What is normative social influence?
This area of psychology seeks to identify and promote those qualities that lead to happy, fulfilled, and contented lives rather than focusing on pathology, faults and problems
What is positive psychology?
Mental or behavioral acts that reduce anxiety in social situations, such as avoiding eye contact or rehearsing sentences before speaking.
What are safety behaviors?
Thoughts affect actions is the principle that underlies this type of therapy.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
Two people share their thoughts and feelings and are prepared to support each other, but they do not feel any real passion toward each other.
What is compassionate love?
Deviations from homeostasis create physiological needs that then push us to behave
What is drive theory?
This theory suggests that mental and physical disorders develop from a genetic or biological predisposition for that illness (diathesis) combined with stressful conditions that play a precipitating or facilitating role.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
During the therapist's first meeting with the client, called this, the therapist gathers specific information to address the client's immediate needs.
What is intake?