Psychological Disorders
A disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions), actions (compulsions), or both.
What is Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
The researcher behind Psychoanalysis
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The process, begun in the late twentieth century, of moving people with psychological disorders out of institutional facilities.
What is Deinstitutionalization?
What type of exercise that increases heart and lung fitness and also helps alleviate anxiety?
Aerobic Exercise
The drive to move toward (approach) or away from (avoid) a stimulus.
What is the approach and avoid motives?
An anxiety disorder, characterized by a marked and persistent fear of a specific object, activity, or situation.
What is specific phobia?
Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences — and the analyst’s interpretations of them — released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.
What is Psychoanalysis?
Type of therapy that prescribes medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology.
What is Biomedical Therapy?
This phenomenon is when people’s tendency to be helpful when in a good mood.
What is the feel-good, do-good phenomenon.
The 3 phases of the general adaptation syndrome (GAS)
What are Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion?
The concept that genetic predispositions (diathesis) combine with environmental stressors (stress) to influence psychological disorders.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
What is resistance?
This is a therapy where a trained therapist uses psychological techniques to help someone overcome difficulties and achieve personal growth.
What is Psychotherapy?
The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves.
What is relative deprivation?
The difference between the external locus of control and the internal locus of control?
What is the external locus of control is the perception that outside forces beyond personal control determine our fate, and the internal locus of control is that we control our on fate.
After going through a traumatic event an individual experiences vivid nightmares and reacts with panic at any sudden noise. The individual's symptoms are most indicative of what disorder
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
In psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting of supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.
What is interpretation?
These are drugs which are used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorders.
A classification system to identify positive traits; organized into categories of wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.
What is character strengths and virtues?
This response is when under stress, people (especially women) may nurture themselves and others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend).
What is the tend-and-befriend response.
The most severe form, in which people experience a euphoric, talkative, highly energetic, and overly ambitious state that lasts a week or longer.
What is Bipolar I Disorder?
The patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).
What is Transference?
The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity.
What is Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
This theory proposes that positive emotions broaden our awareness, which over time helps us build novel and meaningful skills and resilience that improve well-being.
What is the broaden-and-build theory.
The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect our immune system and resulting health.