This is the standard system in the US to diagnose and classify abnormal behavior.
What is the DSM?
This therapy involves bringing involved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses from the unconscious to the conscious
What is the psychodynamic approach?
This disorder is characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
This approach to therapy focuses on dysfunction due to maladaptive thinking.
What is cognitive approaches to therapy?
Unrelated people meet with the therapist to discuss a common difficulty.
What is group therapy?
A disorder in which a person has periods of depression and periods of euphoria.
What is bipolar disorder?
Some procedures involved include testing, interview, work samples, and exercises.
What is personnel selection?
This approach to therapy assumes that an important part of treating psychological disorders is fixing the chemistry of the brain.
What is the biomedical approach to therapy?
Performance appraisal based off of self, client, subordinate, peer, and supervisor reports.
What is 360-degree feedback?
The systematic description of what is necessary to carry out a job (such as in a job posting).
What is job analysis?
These studies were conducted to see how work conditions influence productivity.
What are the Hawthorne Studies?
This perspective on abnormality focuses on what is shaped by family, group, society and culture.
What is the sociocultural perspective?
Source of bias in performance appraisal where a supervisor rates all subordinates in a harsh, negative light.
What are severity errors?
This method was used to cast out the spirits in the skull that were believed to cause mental illness.
What is trephination?
This therapy involves an electric current being briefly administered to a patient’s head.
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
This behavioral approach to therapy includes exposure treatments and aversive conditioning.
What are classical conditioning treatment?
The field of study concerned with the relationship between human beings and the tools or machines they use in their work.
What is human factors (or ergonomics)?
This disorder is largely characterized by a distortion of reality, such as believing things that aren’t true and perceiving things that aren’t there.
What is schizophrenia?
This disorder involves a range of symptoms, including difficulty in processing social situations and over- or under-sensitivity to physical stimuli.
What is autism spectrum disorder?
This disorder consists of a preoccupation with staying away from various situation where escape may be difficult.
What is agoraphobia?
This is where your work has value beyond economics.
What is a calling? (career is work as opportunity for advancement)
Bob the boss thinks that Sue the subordinate is attractive. He therefore gives her positive performance ratings because of her physical attractiveness. Name the bias.
What is a halo effect?
This therapy attempts to look at family dynamics by having different family members talk to each other in session.
What is family therapy?
This is a method of job training that consists of long-term, one-on-one personal teaching of the trainee by the trainer.
What is mentoring?
This perspective on mental health explores the inheritance patterns of different psychological disorders.
What is the biological perspective?