Crazy About Disorders
This manual, now in its fifth edition, is used to diagnose psychological disorders.
DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
The cells that transmit electrical and chemical signals in the nervous system.
Neurons
The ethical rule that participants must know enough about a study to decide whether to participate.
Informed consent
This projective test asks people to interpret ambiguous inkblots.
Rorschach Inkblot Test
The body's tendency to maintain a balanced internal state.
Homeostasis
A mental disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness and loss of interest.
Major depressive disorder
These chemicals cross the synapse to send signals between neurons.
Neurotransmitters
The ethical requirement that participants’ information must be kept private.
Confidentiality
The humanistic psychologist who emphasized unconditional positive regard.
Carl Rogers
This theory suggests we are motivated to reduce internal tension caused by unmet needs.
Drive-reduction theory
A disorder characterized by alternating periods of depression and mania.
Bipolar disorder
This division of the nervous system controls voluntary muscle movements.
Somatic nervous system
When deception is used in research, this process must follow to explain the true purpose.
Debriefing
This major theory of personality describes five broad traits like openness and conscientiousness.
Big Five theory (OCEAN)
The tendency to seek exciting and novel experiences is known as this.
Sensation seeking
This anxiety disorder involves intense fear of situations where escape might be difficult.
Agorophobia
The neurotransmitter most closely associated with movement and reward.
Dopamine
The ethical principle that researchers must work to protect participants from physical or psychological harm.
Nonmaleficence
(fine.. I'll accept do no harm)
Freud believed this part of personality operates on the reality principle.
Ego
The theory stating that performance is best at moderate levels of arousal.
Yerkes-Dodson law
This personality disorder involves extreme distrust and suspicion of others.
Paranoid personality disorder
This condition results when the immune system attacks the myelin sheath of neurons.
Multiple sclerosis
The board that reviews research proposals for ethical violations before studies begin.
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
The idea that behavior, personal factors, and environment interact to shape personality.
Reciprocal determinism
The theory that emotions are caused by interpreting both physiological arousal and a cognitive label.
Two-factor theory of emotion (Schachter-Singer theory)