Learning
Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Habituation
The study of how psychological, neural and endocrine processes together affect our immune system and resulting health.
Psychoneuroimmunology
The hopelessness and passive resignation humans and other animals learn when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.
Learned Helplessness
Intense fear and avoidance of social situations
Social Anxiety Disorder
A way of treatment that uses multiple techniques from various forms of therapy.
Eclectic Approach
Pavlov linked a stimulus to elicit a behaviour in anticipation of a second stimulus. What type of learning did he use?
Classical Conditioning
The 2nd phase of the general adaptation syndrome
Resistance
The scientific study of human flourishing, with the goals of promoting strengths and virtues that foster well being, resilience, and positive emotions, and that help individuals and communities to thrive.
Positive Psychology
Persistent irrational fear and avoidance of specific object, activity, or situation.
Specific Phobia
Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology.
Biomedical therapy
Using a reinforcer or a punisher to increase or decrease learning a behaviour. What type of learning is this?
Operant Conditioning
Under stress, people may nurture themselves and others and bond with and seek support from others.
tend-and-befriend response
The personal strength that helps people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma.
Resilience
The most severe form, in which people experience a euphoric, talkative, highly energetic, and overly ambitious state that lasts a week or longer.
Bipolar 1 Disorder
Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underlying motives and defences.
Insight Therapies
A reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed.
Fixed-interval schedule
The idea of releasing aggressive energy relieves aggressive urges.
Catharsis
Our tendency to form judgements relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.
Adaptation Level phenomenon
A disorder in which people with intact brains reportedly experience memory gaps; people with dissociative amnesia may report not remembering trauma related specific events, people, places, or aspects of their identity and life history.
Dissociative amnesia
A counterconditioning technique that treats anxiety through creative electronic simulations in which people can safely face specific fears, such as flying, spiders, or public speaking.
Virtual reality exposure therapy
A positive, constructive, helpful behaviour. The opposite of antisocial behaviour.
Prosocial Behaviour
______________ is to alleviate stress directly versus ______________ is to attempt to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring stressor and attending to inner feelings.
Problem focused coping and emotion focused coping
The perception that we control our own fate.
Internal locus of control
Extreme emotional expression and a need for attention
Histrionic personality disorder
A biomedical therapy for severe depression in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized person.
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)