The term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people
What is Type A
100
A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
What is the id
100
This psychologist is known for the Stanford Prison Experiment
Who is Philip Zimbardo
100
A significant dysfunction in a person's thoughts, feelings, or behaviors
What is a psychological disorder
100
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies
What is active listening
200
The perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate
What is external locus of control
200
According to Maslow, this is motivation to fulfill one's potential - one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved
What is self-actualization
200
The tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error
200
A disorder marked by unpredictable, minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations
What is panic disorder
200
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
What is systematic desentization
300
The concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases - alarm, resistance, exhaustion
What is the General Adaptation Syndrome
300
In this defense mechanism, we disguise our own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
What is projection
300
The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply with a larger request
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon
300
The unwanted repetitive thoughts in OCD
What are obsessions
300
This type of therapy applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
What is behavior therapy
400
The term for the tendency, under stress, for people (especially women) to provide support to others and bond with and seek support from others
What is tend and befriend
400
Overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders
What is spotlight effect
400
The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them
What is the mere exposure effect
400
False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders
What are delusions
400
A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
What is aversive conditioning
500
Our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, lights, incomes) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
What is adaptation-level phenomenon
500
The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
What is reciprocal determinism
500
Mutual views held by conflicting people, as when each side sees itself as ethical and peaceful and views the other side as evil and aggressive
What is mirror-image perceptions
500
A rare disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities
What is dissociative identity disorder
500
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy