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In this type of therapy, the therapist aims to help uncover unconscious, repressed feelings of conflict.
What is psychoanalysis (or psychodynamic) therapy?
This is the auditory form of sensory memory, lasting only a few seconds.
What is echoic memory?
In this stage of grief/dying, a person may try to negotiate with God, doctors, or other powerful figures for a way out.
What is bargaining?
You get an email from your instructor telling you to complete a survey about psychology. Your completing the survey is which kind of behavior change?
What is obedience?
Jerry finds that he is always worried about something, whether it be his family's financial situation, being on time, or where his kids are at any given time, and it has begun to interfere with his ability to get work done.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
The use of antipsychotics in schizophrenia generally targets this specific neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine?
This memory system is the one in which we actively maintain and manipulate information.
What is working memory?
According to Erikson, the preschool period child often becomes more responsible and capable of creating and executing plans, and experiences this specific "life crisis".
What is initiative versus guilt?
When we make assumptions about why people do the things they do, this is what we are making.
What are attributions?
Jason seems to be two different people at times. He has a disorder that leads to his experiencing days where he bounces off the walls (sometimes spending his whole bank account in a day), and others where he cannot get out of bed because he is so down.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This therapy aims to replace maladaptive thoughts, activities, and behaviors with more appropriate ones, and also identify, challenge, and change faulty beliefs and thoughts using the ABC model.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
For information to be stored in memory or be retrieved from memory, this first has to take place - it is the process through which information enters our memory system.
What is encoding?
In this stage of cognitive development, Piaget argued that individuals develop an understanding of conservation of mass, and begin to think more logically (but not in the abstract).
What is the concrete operational stage?
A car pulls out in front of you and cuts you off, you yell "you jerk" and jump to the conclusion that he/she is a careless driver. This would be called a classic example of this error in thinking.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
Your brother often is unstable in self-image, mood, and behavior. He displays unstable and intense relationships with others, especially his girlfriends, and is often impulsive and unpredictable.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
A therapeutic approach that uses the principles of classical conditioning to link problematic behaviors to unpleasant physical reactions.
What is aversion therapy?
This condition would be the inability to form new long-term memories.
What is anterograde amnesia?
This stage of biological development spans the period between implantation and the eighth week of pregnancy.
What is the embryonic stage?
Someone changing their cell service to Mint Mobile because they saw that Ryan Reynolds endorsed it is an example of someone being persuaded by which route?
What is the peripheral route to persuasion?
Elaine has frequent thoughts about her house burning down. In order to relieve the stress that these thoughts cause her, she checks her oven 8 times before leaving her house each morning.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
In this form of behavioral therapy, a therapist might help a client with a phobia of cars by providing opportunities for interaction with the target of the phobia - hopefully causing the learned relationship between the object and negative feelings to become extinct.
What is exposure therapy?
This area of the brain is important to both implicit memory formation and to emotional memory formation.
What is the amygdala?
In answering the Heinz dilemma, an individual argues that Heinz should steal the drug because, if his wife died, he would be very unhappy and she wouldn't be able to meet his needs for companionship and support. According to Kohlberg's model, this individual would have this moral reasoning level.
What is the preconventional moral reasoning level?
Researchers think that the bystander effect is likely due to this concept, which is the tendency for no one in a group to help because the responsibility to help is spread throughout the group.
What is diffusion of responsibility?
In your therapy sessions with Amanda, it often feels as if you are dealing with an entirely different person with a different personality, wherein she may refer to herself by a different name, and she has no memory of some things you've discussed before.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?