This is the most controversial of all non-surgical treatments for psychological disorders?
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy?
This schedule allows you to get paid every 2 weeks and helps you to show up consistently for work.
What is a fixed interval?
This describes a highly vivid, detailed and unexpected event.
What is a flashbulb memory?
This type of therapy was partially based on the social learning theorists’ views that disorders represent learned patterns of maladaptive behaviors.
What is Behaviour Therapy?
This term describes a person’s underlying general capacity to process complex information:
What is general intelligence?
This is the most commonly prescribed drug in the United States?
What are Anti- depressants?
Shelly Taylor used this term to describe the mainly female tendency to provide care and obtain support from others under conditions of stress:
What is tend and befriend?
Therapists who believe that client's have free will are most likely to be this type of therapist.
What is a Humanistic Psychologist?
This explains why informed consent needs to be obtained from participants before the start of an experiment
What is "so people can understand the risks and benefits of participating"?
Successive reinforcement of the behaviors that come increasingly closer to the behavior one ultimately wants to reinforce.
What is shaping?
Motivation cannot be directly observed, but it may be measured by examining changes in the...
What is the intensity and persistence of behavior?
Drug and alcohol abuse, compulsive gambling, and parenting issues are typically treated with this modality.
What is group therapy?
States of the mind that deviate from the normative, healthy behavior are termed this.
What is Abnormal Psychology?
On an essay exam, the professor is usually examining the accuracy of this retrieval process
What is recall?
A patient in the hospital who has experienced head trauma that disrupted the function of her primary visual cortex. Which lobe of the cortex has been affected?
What is the occipital lobe?
This is an exposure technique used by behavior therapists
What is flooding?
Research has shown that this specific studying tactic can help a student do better on exams.
What is studying in frequent, manageable sessions?
In research what is the only way to determine causal relationships between variables with certainty?
What is develop a true experiment?
This type of therapy draws from many psychotherapeutic theories and techniques.
What is ecclectic therapy?
This theory is based on the notion that organisms seek to maintain a steady, consistent, and balanced physiological state, called.
What is homeostasis?
This term exposes clients to anxiety provoking images while allowing them to practice relaxation techniques.
What is systematic desensitization?
Incorrect and grossly distorted thoughts and beliefs, not widely shared by other members of one’s culture are called...
What are delusions?
If you make a list of items to buy at the grocery store but forget the list at home, you will probably be able to remember the last few items on the list as an example of this serial position effect:
What is the recency effect?
A client who has uncontrollable worry about the future that lasts for years and has symptoms such as migraines or stomach cramps likely have this.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
When an experimenter asks you to quickly repeat back a string of digits like 2,3,5,6,1,2,6, he is measuring your:
What is your memory span?