Sweet Child o' Mine
This is the name of Freud's psychosexual stage of adolescence.
Genital
This is a disorder characterized by distorted body image, excessive dieting and weight loss, and fear of being obese.
Anorexia nervosa
Techniques used by the ego to mediate between the id and the superego and lessen anxiety.
Defense mechanisms.
This is a disorder characterized by a serious physical symptom with no apparent physical cause.
Conversion disorder
This is a disorder characterized by a vague but constant fear and tension.
Generalized anxiety disorder
A treatment for major depression that involves eliciting a seizure via the application of electric current to the brain.
ECT (electroconvulsvie therapy)
Reaction formation
This is the cognitive stage of preschoolers according to Piaget.
Preoperational
This is the humanistic theorist who formulated the hierarchy of needs.
Maslow
The theorist who discussed the collective unconscious and the archetypes.
Jung
This is a psychological disorder characterized by period of mania alternating with periods of depression.
Bipolar disorder
This is a disorder marked by excessive worry and exaggeration about serious illness.
Illness anxiety disorder (hypochondria)
A technique used by psychoanalytic therapists to elicit uncensored responses by the client.
Free association
Type of psychoanalytic test in which a therapist interprets a person's responses to visual stimuli as reflections of the unconscious.
Projective tests
This is the theorist who described morality stages.
Kohlberg
This is a personality type characterized by impatience, competitiveness, and workaholism.
Type A
Introversion/extraversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and neuroticism are examples of these.
This disorder includes repetitive, negative thoughts and accompanying ritualistic behaviors done to lessen anxiety.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
This is a category of disorders marked by continuing, inflexible, maladaptive, patterns of dealing with others.
Personality disorders
Behavioral therapy that involves replacing feelings of fear and panic with relaxation.
Systematic desensitization
The type of therapist that believes that psychological problems come from faulty thinking.
Cognitive
This is the most effective parenting style, characterized by reasonable control, good communication, and flexibility.
Authoritative
This term refers to the need to complete a specific action because of the desire to obtain an external reward.
Extrinsic motivation
The humanistic term for realizing one's full potential.
Self-actualization
This is a mental health disorder marked by a split from reality.
Schizophrenia
This is the term for an intense fear of a person, thing, or situation.
Phobia
Humanistic therapist who developed client-centered therapy, characterized by warmth, empathy, and unconditional positive regard and used techniques such as reflection.
The term for learning acceptable behaviors, attitudes, and values.
Socialization
This term refers to a baby's characteristic way of dealing with its environment.
Temperament
This term refers to our initial assessment of a potential threat.
Primary appraisal
The Freudian term for the unconscious part of the psyche that is governed by the pleasure principle.
Id
This is a disorder characterized by feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and helplessness.
Major depressive disorder
This disorder is characterized by 2 or more distinct personalities that reside in one individual.
Dissociative identity disorder
Type of irrational thinking that involves jumping to the worst case scenario, which heightens anxiety levels.
Catastrophic thinking
The behavioral term that refers to a person's belief in his or her own ability in a specific task.
Self-efficacy