Disorders
What is an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme fear of being watched, evaluated or judged by others coupled with extreme avoidance of the situation?
Social Anxiety Disorder
What is the scientific study of psychological disorders?
Psychopathology
What profession prescribes medication in the mental health field?
Psychiatrist
What is the tendency to treat one person as if they possess the traits or characteristics of another more familiar person?
Transference
The patterns of behavior, traditions, and preferences that are approved by a given culture or subculture.
What are social norms?
What is a disorder is characterized by sadness, emptiness, anhedonia (loss of interest or pleasure), reduced motivation, increased tiredness?
What is Depression?
What is a standardized clinical assessment tool that consists of a fixed set of questions that a patient answers?
Self-report Measure
What are medications that control, or at least moderate, the symptoms of some psychological disorders?
Psychotropic Medications
What is a family of therapeutic approaches based on the idea that maladaptive behaviors arise due to errors in thinking?
The ideas, feelings, or opinions about something or someone especially one formed without conscious thought or on the basis of little evidence are known as what?
Impressions
What disorder is typically diagnosed in young children that involves a wide range of symptoms, including blurting out answers in class, fidgeting, difficulty switching task, difficulty with attentional focus?
What is ADHD
What is a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotional regulation, or behavior that is usually associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupational, and other important activities?
Psychological Disorder
What is a biological treatment, mostly used for cases of severe depression, in which a brief electric current is passed through the brain to produce a convulsive seizure?
Electroconvulsive Therapy
What was Sigmund Freud's talk therapy named?
What is classical psychoanalysis?
What is a sense of conflict between people’s attitudes and actions that motivates efforts to restore cognitive consistency?
What diagnosis is characterized by a wide range of developmental problems including persistent deficits in social communication/interaction and restricted or repetitive patterns of interest or behavior?
Autism Spectrum Disorder
This model helps us to understand what makes people healthy by recognizing that biology, psychology, and social context all combine to shape health outcomes.
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
What woman was a passionate advocate for appropriate treatment for those suffering with a psychological disorder?
Who is Dorthea Dix
What is a method in psychoanalytic therapy in which a patient says anything that comes to mind, no matter how apparently trivial, embarrassing or disagreeable?
Free Association
What is the tendency to assume that people’s actions are more the result of their internal disposition that of the situational context?
Fundamental Attribution Error
What diagnosis is characterized by a loss of contact with reality and a breakdown of the normal functions of the mind, leading to bizarre perceptions?
What is Schizophrenia?
What is a conception of a psychopathology that distinguishes the factors that create a risk of illness (diathesis) from the factors that turn the risk into a problem (stress)?
Diathesis Stress Model
What procedure was done by cutting a hole in the skill so that the “demons” could leave the brain in the early treatment of mental illness?
What is trephination?
What technique is utilizes operant conditioning and is used to increases a patients’ positive behavior through reinforcement with tokens that they can exchange for desirable items?
Token Economies
This tactic is used when an individual is given a small amount of guilt for declining a large request so that they will be more likely to follow through with a smaller one.
Door in the Face Technique