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The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.
Stress
This branch of psychology focuses on human strengths and flourishing rather than disorders or dysfunction.
Positive psychology
A disturbance in people’s thoughts, emotions, or behaviors that causes distress or suffering and impairs their daily lives.
Psychological disorder
A group of disorders characterized by excessive fear and anxiety and related maladaptive behaviors.
Anxiety disorders
A statistical procedure for analyzing the results of multiple studies to reach an overall conclusion.
Meta-analysis
A sublevel of psychology that explores the impact of psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors on health and wellness.
health psychology
Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods
Coping
The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision, is a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.
DSM-5-TR
A false belief (my love life)
Delusion
A psychosurgical procedure used to calm uncontrollable emotional or violent patients.
Lobotomy
The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect your immune system and resulting health.
Psychoneuroimmunology
The personal strength that helps people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma.
Resilience
The study of molecular mechanism by which environments can influence genetic expression (without a DNA change)
Epigenetics
An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, long episodes of intense dread in which a person may experience terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations, which is often followed by worry over a possible next attack.
Panic disorder
Name 3 types of drugs
Antipsychotic drugs
Antianxiety drugs
Antidepressant drug
etc
What is the difference between someone with a type A personality and someone with a type B personality?
Type A: competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.
Type B: easygoing and relaxed
Positive emotions broaden our awareness of our awareness, which over time helps us build novel and meaningful skills and resilience that improve well-being.
The broaden-and-build theory
The concept that diseases - in this case, psychological disorders—have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital.
Medical model
A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, hypervigilance, avoidance of trauma-related stimuli, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, or insomnia.
PTSD
Name 3 types of therapy
Family therapy
Group Therapy
Cognitive-behavioral
Rational-emotive behavior therapy
Cognitive therapy
etc
What is the difference between an external locus of control and an internal locus of control?
Internal locus of control: The perception that we control our own fate.
External locus of control: The perception that outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate.
A reflective practice in which people attend to current experiences in a nonjudgmental and accepting manner.
Mindfulness meditation
The concept that genetic predispositions combine with environmental stressors to influence psychological disorders.
Diathesis-stress model
What is the difference between bipolar I and bipolar II disorder?
Bipolar I: the most severe form, in which people experience a euphoric, talkative, highly energetic, and overly ambitious state that lasts a week or longer.
Bipolar II: a less severe form of bipolar in which people move between depression and a milder hypomania.
Positive psychological changes following a struggle with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises.
Posttraumatic growth