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Memory and Thinking
Disorders
Therapy
100
Hormones are the chemical messengers of this system
What is the endocrine system
100
According to Piaget people begin to reason abstractly during this stage
What is formal operational
100
The tendency to remember the first and last items on a list is called this
What is serial position effect
100
Tom complains of dizziness, sweaty palms, heart palpitations, and ringing in his ears. He feels edgy and sometimes finds himself shaking. He has had few social contacts since the symptoms began two years ago. Sometimes he has to leave work. His family doctor can find no physical problems. Tom likes suffers from this:
What is generalized anxiety disorder
100
Client centred therapy is the focus of this type of therapy
What is humanistic
200
The motor cortex is located in this lobe
What is frontal
200
According to Kohlberg if I don't skip school because I don't want to get caught I am reasoning at this level of morality
What is pre conventional
200
With respect to language development, this theorist takes the nurture side of the nature - nurture debate
Who is Skinner
200
Behaviours are considered disordered if they are (the three d's):
What is deviant, distressful and dysfunctional
200
In this type of therapy you would be required to lie on a couch away from the therapist and be encouraged to free associate
What is psychoanalytic therapy
300
The occipital lobe is to ___ as the temporal lobe is to ____
What is seeing and touch
300
The first time Jane used a golf club she swung it like a baseball bat. Jane's initial understanding of the golf club illustrates this:
What is assimilation
300
Baskey wants you to practice your flashcards many times before the exam because she knows this is important in encoding concepts into long term memory
What is rehearsal
300
In OCD, repeated washing your hands is this
What is compulsion
300
Therapy that intends to treat maladaptive behaviour and negative thoughts is called this
What is cognitive behavioural therapy
400
The chemical messengers released into the spatial junctions between neurone are called this
What are neurotransmitters
400
This type of intelligence usually declines in late adulthood
What is fluid intelligence
400
Baskey wants you to make connections between the information in your textbook and your own life because this facilitates ________ encoding
What is semantic
400
A psychological disorder characterized by enduring behaviour patterns that impair social functioning
What is a personality disorder
400
Systematic desensitization, exposure therapy and token economies are associated with this type of therapy
What is behavioural
500
This layer of fatty tissue that encases the fibres of many neurons.
What is myelin sheath
500
The term given to the time period between Erikson's stage 5 and 6 (between adolescence and early adulthood)
What is emerging adulthood
500
If you give up your task of hanging a picture because you can't find a hammer anywhere in the house and are wearing sturdy construction boots at the same time you may be suffering from this:
What is functional fixedness
500
A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions and inappropriate language and actions
What is schizophrenia
500
This type of therapy would teach people new, more adaptive ways of thinking. It is based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
What is cognitive
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