Health & Positive Psych
What is a positive stressor, which motivates an individual to accomplish a task, called?
Eustress
What is the main neurotransmitter malfunctioning with the brain in a person with schizophrenia?
Dopamine
This disorder is characterized by overall feelings of anxiety that are unspecific but persistent and pervasive.
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
This personality disorder involve magical and fantastical thinking that causes significant impairment in social settings.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Which therapy method uses techniques such as free association to identify patterns in a client's thought?
Psychoanalysis
According to positive psychology, what is the "key" to happiness?
Gratitude/being grateful
If a person is suffering from consistent depressive states over the course of more than 2 years, they may be diagnosed with...
Persistent Depressive Disorder
List some possible treatments for anxiety disorders.
Antidepressants/antianxiety medications, CBT, exposure therapies, etc.
A person with this personality disorder likely has a heightened sense of self-importance.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Albert Ellis formed this type of cognitive therapy, which asks clients to reduce their irrational beliefs and thoughts with more helpful ones.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
If you are frustrated about a grade that you got on a test, but you complain about it to your friend instead of talking to the teacher, you are engaging in which type of coping?
Emotion-Focused Coping
What are some negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
Flat affect, catatonic stupor, lack of speech
What drug is used to treat people with Bipolar Disorder?
Lithium
Which feeding disorder is characterized by binge eating followed by some sort of compensatory behavior (ex: vomiting or using laxatives)?
Bulimia Nervosa
A therapist who employs a variety of different approaches would be said to be using an __________ approach.
Eclectic
During the Alarm Reaction phase of the GAS, which nervous system is being activated?
Sympathetic Nervous System
This type of schizophrenia is a sudden and severe episode of psychosis, which only lasts for a couple weeks or months.
Acute Schizophrenia
What is the difference between Bipolar I and Bipolar II?
Bipolar I has at least one true manic episode, whereas Bipolar II has depression and hypomania.
Jeremiah has little care for others' wellbeing, and he does not feel remorse or guilt when he hurts someone else. What disorder is he likely suffering from?
Antisocial Personality Disorder
This type of therapeutic approach works to change one's actions by reinforcing positive actions, or can be used to get rid of phobias through counterconditioning techniques.
Behavioral
During a stressful situation, this theory suggests that individuals (particularly women) are more likely to nurture offspring and seek social support as a survival strategy
Tend-and-Befriend Theory
This describes a type of dissociative disorder where a person forgets autobiographical information and ends up in an unexpected place.
Dissociative Fugue
Panic Disorder is closely related to these two phobias.
Social Phobia and Agoraphobia
Becca experienced some trauma as a child and has intense fears of abandonment, sometimes causing her to act out in extremely emotional ways and sometimes manipulate people. What disorder does she likely have?
Borderline Personality Disorder
Humanistic