Psychological Disorders
The criteria for _________ must be persistent, pervasive, and problematic
What is the criteria for abnormal behavior?
The individual way we create and organize concepts
What is a schema?
Overgeneralized beliefs about a group & its members
What is a stereotype?
This basic emotion is facially expressed by nose wrinkled, upper lip raised, and tongue pushed outward
What is disgust?
Patients diagnosed with what have been shown to have distorted body images
What is anorexia nervosa?
A psychological condition marked by nervousness, distress, and apprehension
What is anxiety disorder?
A person's pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving
What is personality?
Collection of people who have something in common
What is a group?
Efforts to reduce the impact of stressors
What is coping?
All organisms are born with innate biological tendencies that help them survive
What is the instinct theory?
Recurrent anxiety marked by sudden onset of intense apprehension or terror
What is panic disorder?
According to freud, a part of the mind that is aware of current thoughts and experiences
What is the conscious mind?
Discomfort that you experience from holding 2 competing ideas at the same time
What is cognitive dissonance?
This personality type is characterized by being relaxed about time & slow to anger
What is type b personality?
This theory states that we seek an optimum level of excitement
What is the arousal theory?
Individual has an overwhelming irrational fear of a particular object or situation
what is phobic disorder?
According to Freud, a boy’s unconscious desire for his mother that results in identification with his father
What is the oedipal complex?
Negative stereotypes or attitudes about members of a particular group
What is prejudice?
This personality type is characterized by difficulty relaxing, impatience, and anger when delayed
What is type A personality?
People are motivated to take certain actions in order to reduce the internal tension that is caused by unmet needs
What is the drive theory?
Individual has anxiety provoking thoughts that will not go away and/or urges to perform repetitive ritualistic behaviors
What is Obsessive-compulsive disorder?
A psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which a person fails to accept a reality
what is denial?
Being unselfish & helpful toward other people
What is altruism?
A cluster of neurons in the temporal lobe linked to emotions such as anger & fear
What is the amygdala?
This type of motivation is the desire to gain external rewards for behavior
What is extrinsic incentives?