Social Psychology
Health Psychology
Disorders
Treatments
RANDOM
100
A normal cognitive process involving social schemas that expect individuals belonging to a specific group will have specific characteristics.
Stereotype
100
A conflict with 2 positive options is considered:
Approach-Approach
100
The fear of leaving home due to the fear of panic attacks in public.
Agoraphobia
100
Name 1 of the 3 major categories of psychotherapy.
Insight Therapy, Behaviour Therapy, Biomedical Therapy
100
What is the mild version of Major Depressive Disorder
Dysthymia
200
Automatically categorizing others may reflect the primitive need to quickly separate friend from foe. Which perspective is this?
Evolutionary Perspective/Psychology
200
High emotion can sometimes negatively influence task performance, more so for highly complex tasks and less so for simple ones. What hypothesis is this?
The Inverted-U-Hypothesis / Yerkes-Dodson Principle
200
The distribution of mental or physical disorders in a population. (spelling has to be close).
Epidemiology
200
A client spontaneously expressing their thoughts and feelings, exactly as they occur, with little censorship. This is (hint: Freud)
Free Association
200
What concept was the focus of the Asch study?
Conformity
300
Attitudes which are covert and expressed in subtle automatic responses.
Implicit Attitude
300
The 3 stages of Selyes adaptation syndrome.
Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion
300
There are 3 criteria of an abnormal behaviour. Name 1.
Deviant, Maladaptive, Distress
300
When an undesirable stimulus/behaviour is paired with a negative stimulus. Often used with alcoholics or sexual deviance.
Aversion Therapy
300
Which Dissociative disorder involves the loss of memory, but not identity?
(Dissociate) Amnesia
400
What are the 3 components of attitudes?
Cognitive, Affective, Behavioural
400
List one disease/heath issue that is related to stress, NOT including AIDS or Heart Disease.
Appendicitis, Asthma, Cancer, Common Cold, Diabetes, Herpes, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke, Ulcers, Vaginal infections, etc...
400
Chronic but mild symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
Cyclothymia
400
There are 3 categories of antidepressant drugs. Name 2.
Tricyclics (Elavil), MAOIs (Nardil), SSRIs (Prozac)
400
A passive behaviour produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events.
Learned Helplessness
500
This is the tendency to blame victims for their misfortune so that one feels less likely to be victimized. This is what kind of bias?
Defensive Attribution
500
What are the 4 principle types of stress?
Frustration, Conflict, Change, Pressure
500
There are 3 clusters of personality disorders. Name 2.
Anxious-Fearful, Dramatic-Impulsive, Odd-Eccentric
500
Name the psychologist behind 'Client-Centered Therapy'.
Carl Rogers
500
What was the central concept of the Milgram study? (i.e. shock box)
Obedience (or authority...I guess).
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