Abnormal Psychology
This refers to a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's thoughts, emotions, or behaviors that causes distress or impairs functioning.
What is a psychological disorder?
This type of cognition refers to the mental processes involved in perceiving, remembering, and interpreting social information and the ways in which people think about themselves and others.
What is Social cognition?
This type of psychologist specializes in helping individuals and groups cope with emotional and mental health issues through therapy.
What is a clinical psychologist?
What is the term for an intense and irrational fear of spiders?
What is arachnophobia?
This 1997 film starring Matt Damon features a young man with exceptional mathematical abilities who struggles with personal and emotional challenges.
What is "Good Will Hunting"?
Symptoms of these disorders can be described as having excessive worry, recurrent panic attacks, fear of social situations, fear of a specific object or situation, and obsessions/compulsions
What are anxiety disorders?
This phenomenon is where individuals are less likely to help in an emergency situation when others are present. Factors include diffusion of responsibility and social influence.
What is the bystander effect?
These professionals study the relationship between the brain, behavior, and cognitive processes and often work in research or clinical settings.
What are neuropsychologists?
This phobia involves an irrational fear of water and may lead to avoidance of activities like swimming.
What is aquaphobia?
In this 1975 film, Jack Nicholson plays a character who pretends to be insane to serve a shorter prison sentence but ends up in a mental institution.
What is "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?
Symptoms of this disorder include persistent sadness, loss of interest or pleasure in activities, changes in appetite or weight, sleep disturbances, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, difficulty concentrating, and recurrent thoughts of death or self harm.
What is MDD (Major Depressive Disorder)?
The tendency to adjust one's thoughts, feelings, or behaviors in response to group pressure or social norms. An example is when an individual changes their opinion to match that of the majority in a group.
What is conformity?
These experts work in educational settings, helping students overcome academic and behavioral challenges and providing counseling.
What are school psychologists?
People with this phobia have an intense fear of needles or injections.
What is trypanophobia?
In this 1999 film, Edward Norton plays an insomniac office worker who forms an underground club as a form of rebellion.
What is "Fight Club"?
While they are often mislabeled as delusions, these experiences are sensory perceptions that occur without an external stimulus, such as hearing voices or seeing things that are not there.
What are hallucinations?
Factors that influence attraction in these kinds of relationships include physical attractiveness, similarity, proximity, and reciprocity.
What are interpersonal realtionships?
These professionals are often involved in jury selection, witness preparation, and assisting attorneys with psychological assessments in legal cases.
Who are forensic psychologists?
What is the term for an extreme and irrational fear of clowns?
What is coulrophobia?
In this 2010 psychological thriller, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a character who enters people's dreams to steal their secrets.
What is "Inception"?
The causes of this disorder are believed to be linked to severe childhood trauma. Treatment often involves psychotherapy, with the goal of integrating the different identities into a cohesive whole and addressing the underlying trauma.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
The tendency to overemphasize internal characteristics (personality traits) and underestimate situational factors when explaining the behavior of others. An example is attributing someone's tardiness to laziness rather than considering the possibility of unexpected traffic.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
These professionals often work in hospitals and medical settings, helping patients manage the emotional challenges of illness and injury.
What are health psychologists?
This phobia involves a fear of public speaking or performing in front of others.
What is glossophobia?
This 2004 film, Jim Carrey's character explores the erasure of painful memories through a fictional procedure.
What is "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"?