Chapter 10
What is personality?
A pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world.
What does social psychology study?
How people think about, influence, and relate to others
________ is behavior that is deviant, maladaptive, or personally distressful over a relatively long period of time.
Abnormal behavior
What is psychodynamic therapy?
Therapy stressing unconscious mind and early childhood
What is conformity?
A change in a person's behavior to coincide more closely with a group standard
The standards that the individual must live up to in order to receive positive regard from others is known as what theory?
Conditions of worth
Which concept refers to psychological discomfort from inconsistent thoughts?
Cognitive dissonance
Having two or more disorders at once is called:
Comorbidity
The bond and trust between client and therapist is:
Therapeutic alliance
What is altruism?
The concept of unselfish helping with no expectation of reward.
What is Self-efficacy?
The belief a person has that they can master a situation and produce positive change.
What theory explains how people seek causes for behavior to make sense of it?
Attribution theory
Viewing disorders as biological diseases reflects the:
Medical model
Describe evidence-based practice.
Integrating the best research and clinical skill for each client
Therapies that emphasize self-healing and growth:
Humanistic therapies
Cognitive affective processing systems, or (CAPS) was developed by:
Walter Mischel
________ refers to the processes by which we use social stimuli to form impressions of others.
Person perception
The ________ was published in 1952 by the American Psychiatric Association for the major classification of psychological disorders in the United States.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
Therapy teaching relaxation to face feared situations:
Systematic desensitization
With respect to the three characteristics of abnormal behavior, when a behavior interferes with a person's ability to function effectively in the world, it is considered:
Maladaptive
What are the the big five factors of personality?
Neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
What is social facilitation?
The improvement in performance due to others’ presence.
The ________ is a theory suggesting that preexisting conditions, such as genetic characteristics, personality dispositions, or experiences, may put a person at risk of developing a psychological disorder.
Vulnerability-stress (diathesis–stress) model
What is Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT)?
Therapy combining thinking and behavior approaches
According to Rogers, a person's need to be liked, loved, and accepted by others regardless of their behavior is called:
Unconditional Positive Regard