A now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.
100
What does ECT stand for?
Electro-convulsion Therapy
200
Anti depressant drugs
Drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety.
200
The therapy that Freud created
Psychoanalysis
200
Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors.
Tardive Dyskinesia
200
What is counterconditioning?
a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors.
300
Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder.
Antipsychotic drugs
300
Therapy developed by Carl Rogers
Client-centered therapy
300
An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats.
Token economy
300
In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships.
Transference
400
An example of an antidepressant
Prozac, Zoloft, etc
400
Describe behavior therapy
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.
400
What is unconditional positive regard and who created it?
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed to be conducive to developing self-awareness and self-acceptance.
400
What is meta-analysis?
a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.
500
What is lithium used for in terms of treatment?
Used as a mood stabilizer in bipolar patients
500
What is cognitive therapy?
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting.
500
Describe systematic desensitization
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias?
500
What kind of surgery removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior?