PTSD
Consequences of experiencing extreme stressors
What is PTSD?
Unreasonable or irrational fears of specific objects or situations
What are Phobias?
Testable statement predicting what will happen in a study
What is a hypothesis?
Detailed history of an individual with mental illness
What is a case study?
An ice cream not melting on a 100 degree day is an example of this.
What is correlation not causation?
This group is more prone to PTSD.
What are women?
Animal type
Natural environment type
Blood-injection-injury type
Situational type
What are the 4 types of Phobias?
Factor or characteristic that can vary among samples
What is a variable?
Examine the relationship between two variables without changing either variable
What is a correlational study?
The idea that you can let out a lot of blood to treat something.
What is Bloodletting?
Occurs in response to traumas similar to those involved in PTSD
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
Places where they might have trouble escaping or getting help if they become anxious
What is agoraphobia?
Predicted to be affected by the independent variable
What is a Dependent Variable?
Group of people taken from a population one wants to study
What is a sample?
A person reaching their full potential.
What is self-Actualized?
Emotional and behavioral symptoms occur in response to a stressor of any severity
What is adjustment disorder?
Conditioning of fear to certain objects or situations
What is Prepared classical conditioning?
Looking at its effect on the dependent variable
What is an independent Variable?
Exposing participants to an event in the laboratory to determine its impact
What is a Human Labratory Study?
The father of psychology.
Who is Freud?
Repeated reexperiencing of the traumatic event
Persistent avoidance of situations, thoughts, or memories associated with the trauma
Negative changes in thought and mood associated with the event
What are symptons of PTSD?
Reduction of anxiety reinforced by the avoidance of the feared object
What is Negative Reinforcement?
Drawing conclusions from the data and documenting results
What is the last step of the Scientific method?
Study of frequency and distribution of a disorder within a population
What is an Epidemiological Study?
The book that defines disorders.
What is The DSM?