This subfield of psychology is primarily concerned with the treatment and prevention of illness as it relates to psychology factors.
What is Health Psychology?
100
This book is used by professionals to diagnose mental health disorders.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)?
100
This specific disorder is a fear and avoidance of an object or situation extreme enough to interfere with everyday life.
What is a phobia?
100
This type (or class) of therapy tries to remove distressing symptoms by leading people to understand the symptoms' causes through deeply felt personal insights.
What is insight-oriented therapies?
100
This term refers to an overall evaluation of some aspect of the world - such as people, places, and objects.
What are attitudes?
200
This is the first stage of the general adaptation syndrome
What is the alarm phase?
200
This term refers to sensory images so vivid they seem real.
What are hallucinations?
200
This is a repetitive behavior or mental act that an individual feels compelled to perform in response to an obsession.
What is a compulsion?
200
This type of therapy focuses on changing maladaptive thought patterns.
What is Cognitive Therapy?
200
This attributional bias occurs when we fail to take into account the situational factors influencing behavior; instead, we interpret another person's behavior as the result of only internal causes.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
300
This is another name for the build-up of plaque in the arteries.
What is atherosclerosis?
300
The DSM has five what, that are types of information that should be considered in the assessment of a patient.
What are axes?
300
This subtype of schizophrenia has the worst prognosis.
What is disorganized schizophrenia?
300
This type of therapy emphasizes people's potential for growth and the importance of an empathic therapist.
What is client-centered?
300
This view of prejudice focuses on an in-group vs. an out- group.
What is the social categorization theory?
400
This theory of sleep holds that the function of sleep is to help repair the wear and tear of the day's events.
What is the restorative theory?
400
These types of disorders are marked by persistent or episodic disturbances in emotion that interfere with normal functioning in at least one realm of life.
What are mood disorders?
400
One of the characteristics of this specific disorder is reliving a traumatic event.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
400
This type of therapy is based on learning principles and focuses on changing observable, measurable behaviors.
What is behavior therapy?
400
This form of social influence occurs when we want to be liked by others.
What is normative social influence?
500
This type of aggression is more common in women than men.
What is relational aggression?
500
This specific disorder is characterized by a preoccupation with a minor (or imagined) flaw in appearance.
What is body dysmorphic disorder?
500
This specific disorder is characterized by an individual pulling and twisting their hair until it falls out.
What is trichotillomania?
500
This type of therapy is primarily used with children, and focuses on interpreting the child's behaviors when they are engaged in an activity.
What is play therapy?
500
This particular issue within groups occurs when individuals like each other, which leads them to accept others' information without critical analysis