Personality
Psychological Disorders
Drugs
Therapy
Psychologists
100

Which approach to personality focuses on describing individual differences?

What is trait theory? 

100

Repetitive, intrusive, and unwanted thoughts and repetitive behaviors are characteristic of ______________. 

What is OCD, Obsessive-compulsive disorder? 

100

Name two things depressants do

What is calm neural activity and slow body functions? 

100

Deep brain stimulation has been reported to relieve ____________ .

What is depression?

100

According to Carl Rogers, we feel unhappy or depressed if our self-concept does not match our

What is the ideal self?

200

Name the correct sequence of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

physiological, safety, love and be loved, self-esteem, self-actualization, self-transcendence

200

A persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation is indicative of _________________

What are specific phobias?

200

A stimulant drug with aftereffects that include depression, irritability, high blood pressure, seizures, and some violent outbursts.

What are methanphetamines?

200

The primary goal of psychoanalysis is to _____________. 

What is to bring unconscious conflicts to conscious awareness to gain insight?

200

This therapist believed that the need to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive motives comes from the id, which operates on the pleasure principle. 

Who is Freud?

300

Personality inventories are long sets of ___________ questions covering a wide range of feelings and behaviors.

What are behavior style questions?

300

Alcohol use disorder causes a decrease in this neurotransmitter.

What are endorphins?

300

This drug appears to produce therapeutic effects by blocking receptor sites for dopamine.

What are antipsychotic drugs?

300

Psychosurgery involves

What is removing or destroying brain tissue?

300

According to Bandura, reciprocal determinism involves multidirectional influences among these 3 things.

What are behaviors, internal personal factors and environmental events?

400

In psychoanalytic theory, defense mechanisms are used by the ____________ to reduce anxiety and guilt feelings. 

What is the ego?

400

List the major symptoms of PTSD

recurring distressing memories, social withdrawal, anxiety, nightmares, trouble sleeping

400

Xanax and Ativan help treat _____________

What is anxiety?

400

Lithium salts are often used to treat hypermania in __________ and hypomania in ____________. 

What are bi-polar I and bi-polar II disorders?

400

Match the central therapeutic technique with each psychological therapy school of thought. a)actively disputing self-defeating thoughts, b)systematic desensitization, c)active listening, d)free association

What is a)cognitive b)behaviorist, c)humanistic, and d)psychoanalytic therapy 

500

Someone who is soft-hearted and trusting and is always willing to help those who are less fortunate than themselves would rank high on the Big Five dimension of ______________.

What is agreeableness?

500

List the major symptoms of GAD

Generalized anxiety disorder - constantly tense and anxious about a wide range of things, sometimes with little or no apparent reason. 

500

Nicotine, Ecstasy and amphetamines are ___________

What are stimulants?

500

Name and describe the 3 elements Carl Rogers believed were needed in any relationship (especially the client/therapist relationship).

What are unconditional positive regard (finding good in the person no matter what), empathy (relating to the person) and genuineness (being authentic)?

500

Name the 4 styles of therapy from Ch 14 and a major psychologist from each. 

Psychotherapy -Freud, Adler, Horney and Jung 

Humanistic - Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow

Behavior - Pavlov and Skinner

Cognitive - Bandura and Aaron Beck