DSM / Clinical Psych
What does DSM stand for?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders
This psychologist is often called the “father of psychoanalysis” and developed the theory of the unconscious.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This primary lobe of the cerebral cortex, located at the posterior pole of the brain, is dedicated to processing visual information.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
The term for changing your behavior to match a group, even without being told to.
What is Conformity?
Psychologists agree there are this number of basic personality traits.
5
This clinical term describes a lack of interest, enjoyment, or pleasure in virtually all activities once deemed enjoyable.
This psychologist conducted famous experiments involving dogs salivating in response to a bell.
Classic damage to this left posterior superior temporal region causes fluent, effortless speech output that lacks semantic meaning.
What is Wernicke’s area?
A phenomenon where a group's desire for harmony/conformity leads to poor or irrational decision-making.
What is Groupthink?
Mental age divided by chronological age times 100.
What is IQ?
An abrupt surge of intense fear that peaks within minutes, causing sweat, shaking, and feelings of impending doom or a heart attack.
What is a Panic Attack?
This school of psychology focused on observable behavior rather than unconscious thoughts or internal mental states.
What is Behaviorism?
This small, almond-shape limbic structure plays a central role in processing emotional valence and mediating fear responses
What is the Amygdala?
The murder of Kitty Genovese in New York, which had 38 witnesses during the time of her attack, led to research on which psychological concept?
What is the Bystander Effect?
The Big 5 trait associated with the willingness to try new things.
What is Openness?
A distinct period of abnormally elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and increased energy or activity lasting at least 7 days.
What is Mania?
This 20th-century movement argued that mental disorders should be understood partly in terms of unconscious conflicts and early experiences.
What is the Psychodynamic Approach?
Patients with damage to this temporal lobe structure cannot form new long-term declarative memories, causing anterograde amnesia.
What is the Hippocampus?
The controversial experiment that randomly assigned male college students as guards or prisoners in a simulated basement jail to test situational power dynamics and ended after just six days due to severe guard abuse and prisoner distress.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
The test that gives you a four-letter result, with each letter corresponding to a unique personality trait.
What is the Myers-Briggs Test?
A widespread pattern of instability in relationships, self-image, and emotions, combined with noticeable impulsivity.
What is BPD?
This term describes the tendency to perform better when you know you're being observed.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
This primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system hyperpolarizes neurons by increasing chloride influx.
What is GABA?
In Milgram’s obedience experiment, ___% of participants delivered shocks up to the maximum of 450 volts.
65%
Two main categories of data (self-report data and life outcome data) used to assess and study an individual’s psychological traits.
What is S&L Data?