Mental Illness
A personality disorder characterized by dramatic/theatrical and attention-seeking behaviors.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
This major psychological perspective focus on how we encode, store, retrieve, and process information
This major psychological perspective is the mother of Positive Psychology.
What is the Humanistic Perspective?
Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress.
What is the General Adaptation Syndrome?
This is people's tendency to be helpful when in a good mood.
What is the Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon?
Also called Process Schizophrenia, onset of symptoms are usually part of a slow-developing process
What is Chronic Schizophrenia?
Coming out of the Psychoanalytical approach developed by Sigmund Freud, this perspective focuses on how we are affected by unconscious drives and conflicts
What is the Psychodynamic Perspective?
This is the ability to overcome numerous obstacles but flourish with an abundance of positive outcomes.
What is Resilience?
This is the process of appraising and responding to threatening or challenging events.
What is Stress?
This type of stress is associated with positively perceived challenges
What is Eustress?
This feeding and eating disorder is characterized by binge-eating without compensatory behaviors
What is Binge-Eating Disorder?
A feature of this kind of psychotherapy is unconditional positive regard.
What is Client-Centered Therapy?
What is the Engaged Life?
This is the reducing of the release of disease-fighting cells due to chronic stress that could lead to significant medical issues.
What is Immune Suppression?
This personality style is linked to increased risk of heart disease.
What is Type A?
Self-administered tatooing is an example of this form of managing distress
What is Nonsuicidal Self-injury?
This form of therapy emphasizes the use of biological interventions
What is Biomedical Therapy?
This reflective practice in which people attend to current experiences in a nonjudgmental and accepting manner and is associated with calm or relaxation
What is Meditation? or What is Mindfulness Meditation?
Under stress, this response is one in which people often provide support to others and seek support from others.
What is the Tend-and-Befriend Response?
A chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods
What is a Psychoactive Drug?
People with this disorder interpret normal physical sensations (e.g.headache, stomach cramps) as symptoms of a dreaded disease.
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
This is the study of environmental influences on gene expression
What is Epigenetics?
This is the tendency to judge various stimuli in comparison with past experiences
What is the Adaptation-level Phenomenon?
This strategy refers to attempting to alleviate stress directly and involves changing the stressor or the way one interacts with the stressor
What is Problem-Focused Coping?
This is the acronym for Seligman's Theory of Well-Being
What is PERMA?
Positive Emotions, Engagement, Positive Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishments