Exam 3

Personality

100

The relatively consistent, observable patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving that distinguish people from one another

What is personality?

200

Social cognitive theorists refer to observational learning, like the children watching the Bobo doll be hit in Bandura's study and then replicating the behavior, as....

What is modeling?

300

According to Freud, the _____ is the personality structure that motivates people to satisfy basic bodily needs. It exists at an unconscious level. It often comes into conflict with the rules of society, represented by the ____. The ____ moderates these conflicts.

What is the id? The superego? The ego?

400

A mental strategy that, in psychoanalytic theory, is devised by the ego to protect against anxiety when desires (id) conflict with rules of society. It is used by the ego to prevent threatening impulses from being consciously recognized.

What is a defense mechanism?

500

What are the Big Five personality traits? Bonus - describe them!

What are: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience. E-approaching others in energetic manner, sociable A-positive prosocial when interacting with others C-control impulses, follow social rules, organized N- negative emotions O-open to new experiences, non-conforming

Treatment

100

This type of psychotherapy systematically combines methods from different schools of therapy

What is integrative therapy?

200

Rogers believed it was important to treat clients with respect and acceptance regardless of their behavior, also known as.... He believes the main sources of distress were conflicts between the ____ self and ____ self

What is unconditional positive regard? What are ideal and actual?

300

Antidepressants work by _____ the reabsorption of serotonin, so that more of the neurotransmitter is made available

What is inhibiting? (or blocking)

400

In this type of study, neither the participants or researchers know who is in the control groups and who is in the experimental group.

What is a double-blind study?

500

This type of therapy focuses on identifying and challenging unhelpful thought patterns, whereas in this type of therapy therapists aim to directly alter clients’ patterns of present or future behavior by teaching more adaptive ways of behaving. This second type of therapy is especially grounded in research on learning. When these approaches are combined, it's referred to as:

What is cognitive therapy? What is behavioral therapy? What is cognitive behavioral therapy?

Disorders I

100

This is the most widely used system for identifying and classifying psychological disorders?

What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)?

200

Atypical behavior patterns or emotional experiences associated with prolonged experiences of psychological distress or poor psychological functioning that interfere with a person’s everyday life

What are psychological disorders?

300

When someone has a phobia, this type of exposure therapy may be done. It reduces clients’ fears by exposing them to feared objects in a gradual, step-by-step manner.

What is systematic desensitization?

400

These are the criteria for ______ disorder. Must include at least 1 of these: Consistent depressed mood AND/OR Loss of interest in most daily activities Other criteria: Change in body weight Change in sleep patterns Fatigue Change in activity – slow or fast Feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, or helplessness Difficulty concentrating Thoughts of suicide?

What is major depressive disorder?

500

In these disorders, people experience long-lasting psychological states involving strong and persistent feelings of anxiety that interfere with everyday life?. Some examples of these disorders include:

What are anxiety disorders? Social anxiety, generalized anxiety, panic

Disorders II

100

These disorders feature chronic styles of thinking, behavior, and emotion; they create relative inflexibility in personal style across different situations; they often lower the quality of people’s relationships, creating conflict with others.

What are personality disorders?

200

Experiences (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, or touches) of people or things that are not really there. These are some of the key _____ (positive/negative?) symptoms of schizophrenia. This refers to the absence of normal emotional expression. It is can be a _____ (positive/negative?) symptom of schizophrenia.

What are hallucinations? What are positive symptoms? What is flat affect? What is a negative symptom?

300

In this disorder, people may experience flashbacks to previously encountered highly stressful experiences (trauma), such as military combat or sexual assault

What is posttraumatic stress disorder?

400

Obsessive compulsive disorder involves both recurring, intrusive thoughts about potential danger or harm (_______) and repetitive actions (______) taken to prevent the imagined dangers and harms?.

What are obsessions and compulsions?

500

Psychological disorder involving an unstable sense of self, emotional instability, unstable interpersonal relationships, and a sense of abandonment. This therapy was developed to treat it and involves managing difficult emotions and tolerating distress, along with other skills.

What is borderline personality disorder? What are is dialectical behavior therapy?