Personality
This theory of personality views human behavior as a dynamic interaction between the conscious and unconscious minds, including their associated motives and conflicts.
What is psychodynamic or psychoanalytic theories?
This book helps clinicians to classify psychological disorders
What is the DSM-5?
A technique used by psychoanalysts that involves the client transferring long-repressed feelings to the therapist.
What is transference?
Maslow's concept that refers to the motivation to fulfill one's potential
What is self-actualization?
A disorder in which anxiety suddenly escalates into a terrifying minutes-long episode of intense dread
What is panic disorder or what is a panic attack?
In his client-centered therapy, Carl Rogers used this technique to express genuineness, acceptance and empathy
What is active listening?
This personality inventory based on traits isolates these personality dimensions: conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness and extraversion.
What is the Big Five?
The overexcited, hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in bipolar disorder
What is mania?
Behavior therapists apply this technique based on classical conditioning that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors
What is counterconditioning?
The interacting influences between personality and environmental factors in the social-cognitive perspective
What is reciprocal determinism?
A symptom of schizophrenia in which people have perceptual experiences without sensory input
What are hallucinations?
This group of drugs provides help to people experiencing the positive symptoms of schizophrenia
What are antipsychotic drugs?
Our tendency to overestimate others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance and blunders
What is the spotlight effect?
A personality disorder in which a person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing
What is an anti-social personality disorder?
Psychologists are seeking to learn whether lifestyle change can prevent some disorders by building this in individuals
What is resilience?