Chapter 12
This is a group’s expectation of what is appropriate and acceptable behavior for its members, how they are supposed to behave and think.
What are social norms?
These are any pattern of behavior that causes people significant distress, causes them to harm others, or harms their ability to function in daily life
What are psychological disorders?
This is therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem talks with a psychological professional.
What is psychotherapy?
These are the special photoreceptors that allows one to see in color.
What are cones?
In this famous experiment, students were made into either prisoners or guards in which they fully took on their roles. This happened so much so the experiment had to be ended early for safety reasons.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
This is a psychological manual of disorders and their symptoms.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5th edition (DSM-5)?
This is a behavior technique 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?
This is the psychologist who studied classical conditioning by using dogs.
Who was Ivan Pavlov?
This is a sense of discomfort or distress that occurs when a person’s behavior does not correspond to that person’s attitudes or positive self-perceptions.
What is cognitive dissonance?
This is a symptom in which a person experiences something called "waxy flexibility".
What is Catatonia?
This is a therapy style that results from combining elements of several different therapy techniques.
What is eclectic therapy?
What stage of sleep has the most wild and vivid dreams?
What is REM sleep/ REM stage?
This technique of persuasion is when someone asks for a large commitment and after being refused, asks for a smaller commitment.
What is door-in-the-face technique?
This use to be called multiple personality disorder.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
These are the four element's of person-centered therapy.
What are reflection, unconditional positive regard, empathy and authenticity?
This form of memory has the shortest time.
What is sensory memory (specifically iconic)?
This experiment showed the people will listen to authority figures to the point where they may even engage in behaviors they would usually not such as hurting others.
What was the Milgram study?
This is the fear of not having one's phone.
What is nomophobia?
This is a cognitive-behavioral therapy in which clients are directly challenged in their irrational beliefs and helped to restructure their thinking into more rational belief statements
What is rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT)?
This famous experiment showed that people will go to extreme lengths to be obedient if the command is coming from an authority figure.
What was the Milgram experiment?