Schizophrenia
Neurotic Disorders
Psychotic Disorders
Therapy
Vocab. Grab Bag
100
Schizophrenia is often explained as a breakdown in this...
What is selective attention
100
Overwhelming feelings of intense apprehension along with the inability to catch one's breath is called...
What is a panic attack
100
Feelings of extreme optimism are often referred to as
What is mania
100
This behavioral therapy focuses on associating a pleasant stimulus with a previously anxiety producing stimulus
What is counterconditioning
100
Persistent, intrusive and irrational thoughts are called
What are obsessions
200
False perceptions are often referred to as this
What are hallucinations
200
Repeated hand washing or persistent unwanted thoughts is called this...
What is obsessive compulsive disorder
200
This disorder is characterized by alternations between extreme hopelessness and unrealistic optimism
What is bipolar disorder
200
This alternative therapy has been known to provide relief from seasonal affective disorder.
What is light exposure therapy
200
When therapists take several different approaches from multiple disciplines, that approach is called
What is eclectic
300
An overabundance of this neurotransmitter can be linked to schizophrenia
What is dopamine
300
A persistent irrational fear is called this...
What is a phobia
300
This disorder is characterized by a lack of guilty feelings
What is antisocial personality disorder
300
Associating unwanted behaviors with unpleasant experiences is...
What is aversive conditioning
300
The idea that psychological disorders are biologically based is known as
What is the medical model
400
Although the environment can trigger schizophrenia, the cause of schizophrenia seems to be
What is genetically linked
400
Low levels of the neurotransmitter Serotonin have been linked to this
What is depression
400
Anxiety following a traumatic event is often referred to as
What is Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder
400
This involves repeating or echoing the patient to assure them that they are understood
What is active listening
400
The tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back toward their average
What is regression toward the mean
500
These kind of schizophrenia symptoms include the presence of inappropriate behaviors
What are positive symptoms
500
Anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult is indicative of....
What is agoraphobia
500
The most common mood stabilizer, often prescribed for Bipolar Disorder is
What is lithium
500
If a client becomes hostile toward their caring and helpful therapist, Freud would call that
What is transference
500
A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different studies
What is meta-analysis
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