Chapter 11
To explain personality and behavior, Freud believed that one must focus primarily on this force experienced by a person.
What are Unconscious Forces?
The conflict is Ryan experiencing when he can't decide whether to vacation in the mountains or at the beach.
What is Approach-Approach Conflict?
A short but intense episode of severe anxiety
What is Panic Attack?
Techniques used to help people with mental health disorder or interpersonal problems
What is therapy?
Getting stuck in traffic on your way to a job interview.
What is a Daily Hassle?
What is Unconditional Positive Regard?
Personality type that as characteristics of aggressiveness, ambition, and competitiveness.
What is Type A Personality?
Being overly alert and watchful for potential threats in environment.
What is Hypervigilance?
Self-actualization is the primary goal of what type of therapy?
What is Humanistic Therapy?
Operant conditioning technique involving verbal praise
What is Positive Reinforcement?
Stage of Freuds psychosexual development that claim little boys and girls experience Oedipus and Electra complex.
What is the Phallic Stage?
Stage of general adaptation syndrome where a weakened immune system and vulnerability to disease is most likely to occur.
What is Exhaustion?
Phase during bipolar disorder where a person stays up all night talking or working on a project.
What is Manic Phase?
Method of therapy that focuses on uncovering unconscious conflicts that drive maladaptive behavior.
What is Psychoanalysis?
Mental health professional that can prescribe medication
What are Psychiatrists?
Dimension of PEN model that includes being moody, depressed, or having guilty feelings.
What is Neuroticism?
What are Defense Mechanisms?
Disorder with characteristics of acting impulsively without caring how their behaviors may affect other people.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Therapy that assumes factors such as brain chemistry or altered neurological function are root causes of mental health problems
What is Biomedical?
Personality structure that judges the rightness and wrongness of actions
What is the Superego?
Unstructured, picture interpretation test that lowers clients defenses to reveal their subconscious issues and concerns.
What are projective tests?
Two hormones secreted by the adrenal gland during a stress response.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
Noninvasive therapeutic technique that uses magnetic fields to stimulate neurons
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
Mental health disorder viewed similarly to physical diseases
What is Medical Model?