Psychological Disorders
Intrinsic motivation diminishes when extrinsic motivation is given.
What is the Overjustification Effect?
An interdisciplinary field that investigates the links among behavior, cognition, and physical health.
What is Health Psychology?
Involves medication and/or medical procedures to treat psychological disorders.
What is Biomedical Therapy?
A Culture-Bound Syndrome of Western Countries: uncontrollable binge eating, along with inappropriate behaviors to prevent weight gain.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
Persistent, unintentional, and unwanted thoughts and urges that are highly intrusive, unpleasant, and distressing.
What are Obsessions?
A theory of emotion. Physiological arousal and emotional experience occur simultaneously, yet independently.
What is the Cannon-Bard Theory?
A process whereby an individual perceives and responds to events they appraise as overwhelming or threatening to their well-being.
What is Stress?
Thinking errors, such as overgeneralizing, jumping to conclusions, and polarized thinking.
What are Cognitive Distortions?
A state of high excitement and energy often characterized by racing thoughts, a feeling of invincibility or omnipotence, and a lack of boundaries or inhibitions. A characteristic of Bipolar Disorder.
What is Mania?
A psychological disorder 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?
“Brief psychological and physiological responses that are subjectively experienced as feelings and that prepare a person for action” (Gilovich et al., 2006, p 476).
What is Emotion?
Noticeable alteration in one’s living circumstances that requires readjustment, a type of stressor.
What are Life Changes/Major Life Events?
Focuses on how thoughts lead to feelings of distress, and helps clients become aware of and challenge their thinking errors.
What is Cognitive Therapy?
What is Panic Disorder?
A possible symptom of schizophrenia. Lack of motivation to engage in self-initiated and meaningful activity.
What is Avolition?
Culturally specific standards that govern the types and frequencies of acceptable displays of emotions.
Situations in which a person is exposed to actual or threatened death or serious injury, a type of stressor.
What are Traumatic Events/Catastrophic Events?
An approach to therapy centered around the idea that people must take responsibility for their lives and actions.
What is Humanistic Therapy?
A chronic stress reaction that may include: intrusive and painful memories of the stressor event, jumpiness, persistent negative emotional states, detachment from others, angry outbursts, and avoidance of reminders of the event.
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD)?
A procedure for gathering the info that is needed to evaluate an individual’s psychological functioning and to determine whether a clinical diagnosis is warranted.
What is a Clinical Assessment?
A type of motivation. Behaviors are performed in order to receive something from others.
What is Extrinsic Motivation?
Judgment about the degree of potential harm/threat to well-being that a stressor might entail. Determines whether something is a threat or a challenge.
What is the Primary Stress Appraisal?
A type of thinking error where the individual sees things in absolutes.
What is Polarized Thinking?
A form of clinical assessment in which a person responds to unstructured or ambiguous stimuli; it is thought that responses reveal unconscious wishes and conflicts.
What are Projective Tests?