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Psychological Disorders
Therapy
Drugs
Experiments
Social Psychology
100
This psychological disorder is said to hit people around the age of 28 and affects 1 in 100 people worldwide.
Schizophrenia
100
Phobias, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Post-traumatic stress disorder would fall under which category of psychological disorders?
Anxiety Disorders
100
After taking a drug for awhile you need to eventually take more of it to get the same effect. This is called what?
Tolerance
100
During the Zimbardo experiment they had students take the roles of what?
Guards and Prisoners
200
This part of the brain is said to be less active for murders.
Frontal Lobe
200
What are the drugs that are used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe psychotic disorders?
Antipsychotics
200
After using a drug for a long period of time you start to feel uncomfortable when you stop using the drug. This is an example of what?
Withdrawal
200
The Asch experiment was used to show what?
Conformity
200
Because of the war on terrorism and where the terrorist were located, people often blamed the people and the country of Iraq for the terrorism problem. This is an example of what?
Scapegoat Theory
300
1. An intense fear of spiders isn't considered a psychological disorder unless a. unconsciously motivated. b. a learned response. c. a genetically inherited reaction. d. it interferes with normal day-to-day life.
D. it interferes with normal day to day life.
300
What therapy is it where you change the trigger stimulus with another stimulus to help you with a problem.
Counter conditioning or Aversion Therapy
300
SSRI’s, like Prozac, are used mainly to help people with what?
Depression
300
Research participants were told that Milgram's obedience experiments were designed to study
Learning
300
Smokers will most likely spend more time telling people about how much stress it relieves rather than think and talk about all of the obvious negatives that smoking has. This is an example of what?
Cognitive Dissonance Theory
400
To help them relax, patients with this disease are given ecstasy to help them open up. What psychological disorder is this?
PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
400
The act of actually removing brain tissue from the brain is called what? (NOT BRAIN SURGERY!!)
Psycho surgery
400
This drug is said to give such a great hallucination that its said to give near death experiences. What drug is it?
LSD
400
Research participants who worked beside someone who rubbed his or her face or shook his or her foot were observed to do the same thing themselves. This best illustrated what?
The Chameleon Effect
400
Unconditional positive regard, a tactic that says you should accept and support everything about a person was developed by which humanist psychologist?
Carl Rodgers
500
Julie can't stop thinking about germs and dirt. She spends all day cleaning her house. She is suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder. What would be her obsession and compulsion?
Obsession: Thinking about germs and dirt Compulsion: Cleaning her house
500
A man is starting to think that his wife is starting to not love him anymore because she is always showing up late to things with him. A therapist might attempt to use which kind of therapy to help him?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
500
All drugs are said to have this kind of affect on people causing them to use them more.
Psychological Dependency
500
This study involved participants moving pegs around a board for around an hour. Who ran this study?
Festinger
500
You want to spend the night at your friends house but you don’t think your parents will say yes. So you begin by asking if you can stay till 8. Than at 8 o’clock you call your parents and ask to spend the night and they say it’s ok. This is an example of what?
Foot-in-the-door phenomena