Development
Piaget's stage when we learn about the world through sight, touch, taste, and movement.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
The part of the unconscious mind that has strong sexual and aggressive urges.
What is the id?
An intense, maladaptive fear of a specific object or situation.
What is a phobia (or, a specific phobia)?
A surgical process where electrodes are implanted in the brain and connected to a low-current pulse generator; used to relieve severe depression.
What is deep brain stimulation?
The most common method of suicide in Korea.
What are suffocation or hanging?
The scientific name of a baby 10 weeks after conception.
What is a fetus?
Freud's psychoanalytic therapy technique for learning about a client's unconscious mind.
What is free association (or what is dream analysis)?
A metaphor that mentally ill people use to wisely spend their limited energy each day.
What is the spoon theory (or what are spoons)?
A type of therapy that focuses on revealing and replacing unrealistic and irrational thinking.
What is cognitive therapy?
The most common method of NSSI.
What is cutting?
The scientific word to describe love.
What is attachment?
The top of Abraham Maslow's triangle-shaped "hierarchy of needs."
What is self-actualization?
A state of extreme positivity, optimism, and energy often causing impulsive and reckless behavior.
What is mania?
A person's use of food or other chemicals to decrease symptoms of anxiety and depression.
What is self-medication?
The full name of the DSM.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual?
The kind of development that describes how a baby learns to intentionally move and control its body.
What is motor development?
The Big 5 includes Neuroticism, Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and ________.
What is agreeableness?
A condition in which a person perceives or believes things that are not real
What is psychosis?
A form of irrational thinking in which even minor negative situations are perceived as catastrophic.
What is magnification?
A type of family tree that includes physical and psychological disorders.
What is a genogram?
What is post-conventional?
The ego uses this principle to satisfy unconsicous impulses without feeling guilt about breaking social rules.
What is the reality principle?
A condition in which the conscious mind is disconnected from particular memories and experiences.
What is dissociation?
A type of therapy in which the therapist has a wholistic, BPSS-type perspective on client problems.
What is Christian therapy (or counseling)?
A series of pictures of ambiguous situations about which clients write dramatic stories.
What is the Thematic Apperception Test (or, TAT)?