Personality
An ego protective method to keep memories and traumatic experiences from the past hidden
A technique where a client projects feeling about someone else, particularly someone encountered in childhood, onto her therapist.
Transference
A constant urge to pull one’s hair out or pick at one's skin.
Trichotillomania
The type of personality that is impatient, short-tempered, competitive, and ambitious
Type-A Personality
A theory that explains personality in terms of unconscious psychological processes and contends that childhood experiences are crucial in shaping adult personality.
Post-dynamic Theory of Personality
A technique where a psychologist uses more than one psychotherapy approach, or multiple sets of techniques, to help with clients' needs.
Eclectic Therapy
An eating disorder in which people have an intense fear of gaining weight and can become dangerously thin.
Anorexia Nervosa
A type of motivation that arises from homeostasis—an organism’s natural tendency to maintain a steady internal state.
Drive-Reduction Theory
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.
When an unpleasant response, or a punishment, is connected to a harmful stimulus to stop an unwanted behavior.
Aversive Conditioning
A mental condition in which a person has a long-term pattern of manipulating, exploiting, or violating the rights of others without any remorse
Anti-social Disorder
A problem-solving technique that is step-by-step instructions that guarantee a correct answer
Algorithm
One's belief in one's ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task
Social Efficacy
A technique that involves a brief electrical stimulation of the brain while the patient is under anesthesia
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
According to the WHO study, which psychological disorder is the most diagnosed in the US?
Major Depressive Disorder
The part of the brain where emotions/emotional memories are stored
Amygdala
A type of therapy that is a movement away from the therapist's traditional role—as an expert and leader—toward a process that allows clients to use their own understanding of their experiences as a platform for healing.
Person-centered perspective
The most commonly used therapy technique used to treat most psychological disorders
Biomedical Therapy
What are the three anxiety disorders?
Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Phobia
A psychologist focused on observational learning/modeling and established the "BoBo Doll" experiment
Albert Bandura