Consciousness
Research Methods
Learning
Abnormal Psychology
Treatment & Therapy
100
Our awareness what is going on inside or outside of ourselves.
What is consciousness?
100
This ensures that records of subjects and clients are confidential at all times.
What is confidentiality?
100
B.F. Skinner primarily studied this type of conditioning.
What is operant conditioning?
100
Type of disorder characterized by feeling sad, hopeless, or worthless and loss of interest in normal daily activities.
What is depression?
100
This man focused on anxiety as the main problem people face; analyzed the unconscious.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
200
Freud believed this controls our behavior.
What is the unconscious?
200
This is when a researcher allows his or her expectations to influence the outcome of the research.
What is expectancy bias?
200
Albert Bandura conducted this experiment on observational learning.
What is the "bobo doll" experiment?
200
Intense irrational fear
What is a phobia?
200
Based on the idea that people have the power within them to know where they want to go in life.
What is humanistic therapy?
300
A rare disorder where the individual goes into instant REM sleep at any time.
What is narcolepsy?
300
Testing criteria that questions if the test measures what it's supposed to measure.
What is validity?
300
Form of behavioral learning where a previously neutral stimulus acquires the power to bring forth a response it did not elicit before.
What is classical conditioning?
300
Physical symptoms with no physical cause.
What is a conversion disorder?
300
Rational Emotive (or cognitive behavioral) therapy was developed by this man.
Who is Albert Ellis?
400
Brain waves that occur while we're awake.
What are beta waves?
400
Type of statistics that measures central tendency; "What is the data?"
What are descriptive statistics?
400
When the conditioned response no longer appears due to lack of reinforcement.
What is extinction?
400
Childhood/developmental disorder characterized by aggressiveness and tendency to purposefully irritate others.
What is oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)?
400
Patient transfers their emotional issues onto the therapist.
What is transference?
500
If there were absolutely no environmental influences (ex. light during the day and dark at night), circadian rhythms would last this long.
What is 25 hours?
500
Correlational studies often use this method of testing.
What are surveys/questionnaires?
500
Removing something in order to strengthen a response.
What is negative reinforcement?
500
Simple form of mental illness with one identifiable cause.
What is neurosis?
500
Therapy that increases the person's anxiety and counters it with relaxation.
What is systematic desensitization?
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