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Abnormal Basics
Disorders
Treatment
100
Two types of sensory memory
What is iconic and echoic?
100
Two methods that control for subject/experimenter expectations.
What are the double-blind method and the placebo?
100
The basic purpose of THIS is to provide a set of diagnostic categories for classifying psychological disorders.
What is the DSM-IV-TR?
100
An individual survives a period of captivity and exhibits behaviors that include anxiety, inability to concentrate, depression, edginess, and the reexperience of stressful events. These symptoms illustrate THIS.
What is posttraumatic stress disorder?
100
Neurosurgeons cut the corpus callosum in the brain disrupting communication between the right and left hemispheres to treat THIS.
What are epileptic seizures?
200
The fact that adolescents follow fads in dress and hairstyle is best explained by THIS famous study.
What is Solomon Asch's conformity study?
200
Stimulants (name 3)
(Possible answers) What are methamphetamine, caffeine, cocaine, nicotine, ecstasy?
200
Contemporary definitions of THIS include maladaptiveness, personal distress or discomfort, deviance from cultural norms, statistical prevalence.
What is abnormality?
200
THIS disorder is characterized by an inability to feel empathy for others and a lack of remorse for actions that harm others.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
200
The psychologists who first developed encounter groups and sensitivity training groups based their work on THIS approach to therapy.
What is humanistic?
300
A basketball captain discovers that contributions of team members in a game drop when the total contribution of all members is published in the newspaper rather than the contributions of individuals. This drop can be explained by the phenomenon of THIS.
What is social loafing?
300
A newer understanding of short term memory that involves conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual- spatial information, and of information retrieved from long- term memory
What is working memory?
300
An individual who sees and feels imaginary spiders crawling on his arms and legs is experiencing THIS.
What is a hallucination?
300
Aaron Beck suggested that negative beliefs cause depression. To help change these negative beliefs, Beck used THIS perspective.
What is cognitive?
300
A psychologist is attempting to get Wade, and 8-year-old autistic boy, to make eye contact when she speaks to him. She gives Wade a piece of candy every time he looks at her face. This treatment illustrates THIS therapeutic approach.
What is behavioral?
400
The three types of encoding
What is visual, acoustic, and semantic?
400
The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood
What is mood- congruent memory?
400
A college student experiences a loss of sensation of her right arm before exams. Doctors can find no physiological basis for her condition. This student is most likely experiencing THIS kind of disorder.
What is a somatoform disorder?
400
People with THIS disorder typically experience onset in late adolescence or early adulthood.
What is schizophrenia?
400
The overall purpose of THIS therapy is to help the client in therapy gain new insight into himself or herself.
What is psychoanalytic therapy?
500
Legitimacy and closeness of authority figure, remoteness of victim, assignment of responsibility, and modeling or imitating others are factors of what?
What is Obedience?
500
The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information
What is proactive interference?
500
Prozac functions as an antidepressant medication because it blocks THIS neurotransmitter.
What is serotonin?
500
Enlarged, fluid-filled areas in the brain is associated with THIS disorder.
What is schizophrenia?
500
THIS form of therapy most likely involves a confrontational atmosphere between the therapist and the client.
What is Rational-Emotive therapy?
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