Key Psychologists
Studied conformity- subjects were shown lines of different lengths and asked which of the lines matched an example line that they were shown, his accomplices gave the wrong answer to see how the actual subject would react to finding that their opinion differed from the group opinion; subjects conformed in about 1/3 of the trials.
Solomon Asch
SSRI is a type of what?
Antidepressant
Part of brain linked to emotion.
Amygdala
An emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties
Psychotherapy
A disorder characterized by intense, frequent or continuous anxiety, which may lead to disruptive avoidance behavior.
Anxiety Disorder
Proposed an innate language acquisition device.
Noam Chomsky
Xanax and Klonopin which are benzodiazepines treat what kind of disorder?
Anxiety Disorders
Portion of brain that regulates sleeping and dreaming.
Pons
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening with in a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth
Client-Centered Therapy
A personality disorder marked by irresponsible and socially disruptive behavior in a variety of areas.
antisocial personality disorder
Founder of rational emotive behavioral therapy which attempts to change irrational beliefs that cause emotional problem.
Albert Ellis
What acts as a mood-normalizing agent in bipolar illness ?
Lithium
An area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movements.
Motor Cortex
Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid.
Exposure Therapies
An anxiety disorder characterized by symptoms such as flashbacks and recurrent thoughts of a psychologically distressing event outside the normal range of experience.
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Founder of the American Journal of Psychology
G. Stanley Hall
What is used to help with ADHD?
Stimulants
The large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them.
Corpus Callosum
A biomedical therapy for severly depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Psychotic disorders characterized by disturbances in thought, perception, behavior, language, communication and emotion.
schizophrenia
Believed that dreams are a way of filling gaps in personal experience. Method of analyzing dreams involved speaking for characters and objects in your dreams.
Fritz Perls
Cognitive enhancers are prescribed to what sort of patients?
Those with Alzheimer's
An area of the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere, that directs the muscle movements involved in speech.
Broca's Area
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Eclectic Approach
a somatoform disorder characterized by feeling excessive concern about one's health and exaggerating the seriousness of minor complaints
hypochondriasis