Chapter 13
Entity that, among other roles, is responsible for setting the rules of all research in psychology.
What is the APA?
Stress Disorder characterized by flashbacks from an identifiable trigger event.
What is PTSD?
Techniques that can help people deal with psychological or interpersonal problems.
What is Therapy?
The study of how to hire and train employees.
What is Industrial Psychology?
Mood disorder characterized by shifts in depression and mania.
What is bipolar disorder?
Type of therapy that has a goal to restore family harmony.
What is family therapy?
The study of people in the workforce.
What is organizational psychology?
Cluster of personality disorders characterized by dramatic or erratic behavior.
What is Cluster B?
Therapy approach developed by Freud that uses the concept of free association.
What is Psychoanalysis?
Term for phenomenon in which people who are noticed tend to have increased performance.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
Phobic disorder characterized by persistent fear or anxiety about a certain object or situation.
What is specific phobia?
Treatment category in behavioral therapy in which a behavior is altered through reinforcers or punishers.
What is operant conditioning?
Federal Agency responsible for enforcing workplace discrimination laws.
What is the EEOC?
The cause of OCD according to the biological perspective.
What are chemical inbalances?
The four ethical principles of therapy
What are competent treatment, informed consent, confidentiality, and appropriate interactions?