The process by which people infer the causes of others people’s behaviour.
what is attribution?
100
Patterns of physiological, behavioural and cognitive responses to stimuli (real or imagined) that are perceived as endangering one’s well-being.
What is stress?
100
A statistical statement referring to relatively rare patterns of thought or behaviour.
What is abnormal?
100
Type of psychotherapy in which the therapist offers unconditional positive regard.
What is client-centered therapy?
200
An individual who developed an attribution theory and suggested that we rely on 3 types of information to infer people's behaviour.
Who is Kelley?
200
Stimuli that are perceived an endangering one’s well-being
What are stressors?
200
A popular tool for diagnosing mental disorders.
What is the DSM-IV
200
A type of cognitive therapy that involves cognitive restructuring. It challenges a client's irrational thoughts.
What is rational-emotive behaviour therapy (REBT)?
300
A type of heuristic in which people judge an event as likely to occur if examples are easy to bring to mind.
What is availability heuristic?
300
Pattern of behaviour (personality type) that is associated with competitiveness, hostility, impatience.
What is Type A?
300
Involuntary recurring thoughts, ideas, or images.
What is an obsession?
300
A psychoactive drug that increases levels of serotonin. The side-effects such as dry mouth, headaches, nausea.
What are antidepressants?
400
Belief that one’s culture or ethnic group is superior to all others.
What is ethnocentrism?
400
Type of white blood cell that releases antigens and directly kills bacteria or attracts other white blood cells to come and destroy the bacteria.
What are B-Lymphocytes?
400
Also known as the fear of fear. Individuals with this type of disorder are characterized as having an intense fear of public places and will avoid being alone in public.
What is agoraphobia?
400
Involuntary movements and tremors which may be a side-effect of long-term use of antipsychotics.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
500
People’s tendency to approach each other and to evaluate each other positively.
What is interpersonal attraction?
500
Meichenbaum's strategy on how to deal with stressors. It involves a conceptualization phase, acquisition and rehearsal phase, and application and follow-through phase.
What is stress inoculation training?
500
Type of schizophrenia that is characterized by complete stillness or great excitement and agitation.
What is catatonic schizophrenia?
500
A type of humanistic therapy developed by Fritz Perls.