Anxiety disorder marked by the recurrence of intrusive or disturbing thoughts, impulses, images or ideas, accompanied by repeated attempts to suppress these thoughts through the performance of certain irrational and ritualistic behaviors or mental acts.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
100
Activation, persistence, and intensity are the three major components of?
What is motivation?
100
Referred to as the father of psychology?
Who is Walter Wundt?
100
Study of the mind partly, via the study of behavior.
What is general psychology?
100
A progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects movement.
What is Parkinson's disease?
200
Element of OCD is characterized by making the person feel driven to act out again and again?
What is Compulsive or compulsion
200
Memory, problem solving, language, socialization, and new learning are the tools we use components of?
What is Intelligence?
200
Theorist associated with growth and self-actualization?
Who is Abraham Maslow?
200
Study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the presence of others.
What is social psychology?
200
The somatic and autonomic nervous system are part of this nervous system.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
300
Mental disorder characterized by striving for too much success. Perfection is the ultimate goal of the person and failure is seen as earth shattering.
What is OCPD-Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
300
Under Biological Interventions of anxieties, which powerful sedating drugs were widely used to treat anxiety symptoms until the 1950’s when it became apparent that they were dangerously addictive?
What is barbiturates?
300
Theorist associated with the Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
Who is Howard Gardner?
300
Study of how biological, psychological, environmental, and cultural factors affect health.
What is health psychology?
300
Part of the brain involved in the interpretation of the sounds and language we hear.
What is auditory cortex?
400
Theorist argued that OCD is based on the defense mechanism called “isolation of affect”.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
400
When two theories are equal in their ability to generate research, be falsified, give meaning to data, guide the practitioner, and be self-consistent, the simplest theory should be preferred to explain a phenomenon.
What is the law of parsimony?
400
First theorists to develop the concept of general intelligence otherwise known as the g factor.
Who is Charles Spearman?
400
Treatment of psychological illness through the administration of drugs.
What is pharmacotherapy?
400
Chemical that helps maintain a "happy feeling" and keeps our mood under control by regulating sleep, appetite, anxiety, and relieving depression.