Disorders
This disorder is characterized by a preoccupation with health concerns and worry about developing physical illness.
What is Hypochondria
This therapy emphasizes providing a supportive emotional climate for clients, who then play a major role in determining the pace and direction of the therapy.
What is client-centered therapy
Devised the theory and technique known as psychoanalysis
Who is Sigmund Freud
The first of Erikson's psychosocial stages
What is Basic Trust vs.Mistrust?
Widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group
What are stereotypes?
This disorder is marked by persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger.
What is a phobic disorder
This therapy emphasize recognizing and changing negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs
What is cognitive therapy
Proposed the theory that people go through 8 stages of psychosocial development.
Who is Erik Erikson
The emotional distress that occurs when an infant is separated from people with whom an attachment has developed
What is separation anxiety
This case inspired psychologists Darley and Latane to conduct research into when, where and why people do or do not help our fellow human beings leading to the use of this term describing diffusion of responsibility.
What is the murder of Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect?
this disorder is characterized by auditory hallucinations, delusions and disorganized thought
What is schizophrenia
emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses.
What is psychoanalysis
Founded experimental psychology and the first experimental psychology laboratory
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development
What ares sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations and formal operations?
Occurs when people yield to real or imagined social pressure
What is conformity
This disorder involves the co-existance of two or more complete and different personalities in the same individual.
What is dissociative identity disorder
uses electric shock to produce a seizure and convulsions
What is electroconvulsive therapy
the chief architect of functionalism; described a "stream of consciousness"
Who is William James
The Heinz Dilemma
What is a frequently used example in many ethics and morality classes?
One well-known version of the dilemma is used in Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development.
Occurs when members of a group emphasize concurrence, rather than critical thinking
What is groupthink
This disorder is marked by impulsive, aggressive behavior that ignores social norms and a lack of remorse and empathy
What is antisocial personality disorder
Neurotransmitter believed to play a role in the treatment of depression with medications such as Prozac, Zoloft and Lexapro
What is serotonin?
A major figure in moral psychology and moral education.He described stages of moral development.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg
When the child realizes that objects still exist when they are not present
What is object permanence?
occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmation of an association between social traits than they have actually seen
What is an illusory correlation