Research
This type of research believes that reality is objective, rational, and logical.
What is quantitative research?
This type of attachment is characterized by children feeling confident that their caregiver will be available and responsive when needed.
What is secure attachment?
This diagnosis describes the overwhelming worry or fear about various aspects of life that is difficult to control.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Sigmund Freud created this type of therapy.
What is psychoanalysis?
A study procedure involving observations, measurements, experiments, and hypothises.
What is the scientific method?
This type of research study use small sample sizes.
What is a qualitative study?
This type of attachment is characterized by children feeling unsure if their needs will be met by a caregiver.
What is ambivalent (or anxious) attachment?
Individuals with OCD often engage in these repetitive behaviors and mental acts to reduce distress.
What are compulsions?
This type of therapy believes that emotional insight is the key to change.
What is psychodynamic therapy?
The scientific study of mental illness or disorders
What is psychopathology?
This term refers to abstract concepts that will be measured in a research study.
What is a construct?
This person created attachment theory.
Who is John Bowlby?
This term refers to an emotional response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms a person’s ability to cope.
What is trauma?
This type of therapy believes that individual's can change their thinking patterns.
What is CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy)?
This rating system is used to measure opinions, perceptions, and attitudes in research.
What is a Likert scale?
This statistical term means that two variables have a relationship.
What is a correlation?
A child seeks out an attachment figure, when they experience this.
What is distress (fear, worry, sadness)?
This problematic diagnosis was removed from the DSM in the 1970s.
What is homosexuality?
In this type of therapy, a person is gradually introduced to a feared object or situation.
What is exposure therapy?
According to Freud, this part of the mind reflects the social standards learned from parents and teachers.
What is the superego?
Qualitative data is frequently analyzed using this method.
What is thematic analysis (identifying themes)?
Mary Ainsworth's famous attachment study had this name.
The strange situation study.
This diagnosis was used to explain women's emotional distress.
What is female hysteria?
This thinking pattern involves assuming the worst possible outcome will happen, even without evidence.
What is catastrophizing?
"It's good and it's bad", is an example of this term.
What is a dialectic?