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This is the standard system in the US to diagnose and classify abnormal behavior.
The DSM-5
A disorder in which a person has periods of depression and periods of euphoria.
Bipolar disorder
This disorder is characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance.
Narcissistic personality disorder
This is when unrelated people meet with the therapist to discuss a common difficulty.
Group therapy
This approach to therapy focuses on dysfunction due to maladaptive thinking.
The cognitive approach to therapy
This therapy involves brining past conflicts and unacceptable impulses from the unconscious to the conscious.
Psychodynamic approach
This involves procedures including testing, interviewing, work samples, and exercises.
Personnel selection
This approach to therapy assumes that people can make choices about the life they lead and that they are responsible for solving their own problems.
Humanistic approach
This is a performance appraisal based off of self, client, subordinate, peer, and supervisor reports.
360-degree feedback
This is the systematic description of what is necessary to carry out a job.
Job analysis
These studies were conducted to see how work conditions influence productivity.
The Hawthorne Studies
This perspective on abnormality focuses on what is shaped by family, group, society, and culture.
The sociocultural perspective
These are sources of bias in performance appraisal where a supervisor rates all subordinates in a harsh, negative light.
Severity errors
Prefrontal lobotomy is an example of this approach that is now rarely used today.
Psychosurgery
This therapy involves an electric current being briefly administered to a patient’s head.
Electroconvulsive therapy
This behavioral approach to therapy includes exposure treatments and aversive conditioning.
Classical conditioning treatment
This is the field of study concerned with the relationship between human beings and the tools or machines they use in their work.
Human factors (aka ergonomics)
This class of disorder is largely characterized by a distortion of reality.
Psychotic disorders/schizophrenia
This somatoform disorder involves actual physical disturbance (e.g. not able to see or hear) whose cause is purely psychological.
Conversion disorder
The theory that leaders have beliefs of what followers are supposed to be like.
Leaders’ Implicit Followership Theories (LIFT)
This is where your work has value beyond economics.
Thinking of work as “a calling”
Bob the boss thinks that Sue the subordinate is highly attractive. He therefore gives her positive performance ratings because of her physical attractiveness. Name this bias.
The halo effect
This therapy attempts to restructure a person’s belief system into a more realistic, rational, and logical set of view.
Rational-emotive behavior therapy
This made it illegal to refuse employment to someone with a disability, as long as their disability does not affect essential workplace functions.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990
This study demonstrated that placing labels on individuals powerfully influences the way mental health workers perceive and interpret their actions.
The Rosenhan study