DISORDERS
A disorder characterized by feeling sad and blue most of the day nearly every day for at least 2 weeks.
What is DEPRESSION?
A type of therapy, pioneered by Freud, in which the therapist attempts to uncover a patient’s unconscious desires and urges in order to identify problem areas.
What is the PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY?
The type of conditioning identified by Ivan Pavlov in his work with dog salivation.
What is CLASSICAL CONDITIONING?
The chemical transmitters that pass messages between neurons.
What are NEUROTRANSMITTERS?
The lobe of the brain where higher-order processes occur, such as organization, judgments, and decision-making.
What is the FRONTAL LOBE?
A classification of disorders with symptoms that include feeling worried, having elevated arousal, inability to concentrate, fear, and sometimes panic.
What are ANXIETY DISORDERS?
A type of therapy in which learning principles are applied in order to eliminate unwanted behaviors or increase desired behaviors.
What is BEHAVIOR THERAPY?
The type of learning or conditioning pioneered by B.F. Skinner in his work with rats and pigeons—including the use of a “Skinner Box.”
What is OPERANT CONDITIONING?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
Before the question is revealed, the contestant who has selected the Daily Double must declare a wager, from a minimum of 5 points to a maximum of their entire score (known as a "true Daily Double"). Only the contestant who chooses the Daily Double is allowed to answer the question. A correct response adds the value of the wager to the contestant's score. An incorrect response (or failure to provide any response at all) deducts the same value.
QUESTION:
The chemical messengers that run through the bloodstream as part of the endocrine system.
The lobe of the brain that contains the visual cortex.
What is the OCCIPITAL LOBE?
A type of psychotic disorder that includes disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and behaviors.
What is SCHIZOPHRENIA?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
Before the question is revealed, the contestant who has selected the Daily Double must declare a wager, from a minimum of 5 points to a maximum of their entire score (known as a "true Daily Double"). Only the contestant who chooses the Daily Double is allowed to answer the question. A correct response adds the value of the wager to the contestant's score. An incorrect response (or failure to provide any response at all) deducts the same value.
QUESTION:
The therapy introduced by Carl Rogers, in which clients are assumed to have the resources they need to get well in the company of a warm, compassionate relationship with a therapist.
What is HUMANISTIC OR PERSON-CENTERED THERAPY?
The type of learning, discussed by Albert Bandura, in which we learn by observing other people and imitating them.
What is SOCIAL LEARNING?
The part of the nervous system that includes the brain and the spinal cord.
What is the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM?
The lobe of the brain that contains the auditory cortex.
What is the TEMPORAL LOBE?
Eating disorder characterized by a preoccupation with being thin, and maintaining a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight.
What is ANOREXIA NERVOSA?
A type of therapy in which it is assumed that a person’s thoughts and interpretation of situations contribute to maladaptive feelings and behaviors.
What is COGNITIVE THERAPY?
The type of behavior that is targeted in Classical Conditioning.
What are INVOLUNTARY OR REFLEX BEHAVIORS?
The part of the Peripheral Nervous System that prepares the body for the “fight or flight” response when presented with a possibly dangerous situation.
What is the SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM?
The tiny almond-shaped part of the brain that processes emotions such as fear and anger
What is the AMYGDALA?
Formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, when a person demonstrates at least two distinct and alternating personalities.
What is DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER?
A type of alternative therapy that has been shown to be most effective for Seasonal Affective Depression.
What is LIGHT EXPOSURE THERAPY?
The type of reinforcement described here (in reference to the child’s behavior): When a parent yells at a child to get her to stop whining, and the child continues to whine even more.
What is POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT?
The Master Gland of the Endocrine System, and also regulates growth.
What is the PITUITARY GLAND?
The “sensory switchboard” of the brain, through which all sensory input gets processed (except the sense of smell.)
What is the THALAMUS?