Chapter 12
An assumption about the causes of behavior.
What is an attribution?
Excessive or irrational fears of specific objects or situations?
What are phobias?
This type of mental health professional has earned a medical degree and can prescribe medication.
What is psychiatrist?
Manic depression is also know as this.
What is bipolar disorder?
A technique in which clients are instructed to say anything that comes to mind.
What is free association?
Compliance with commands or orders issued by others, usually people in a position of authority.
What is obedience?
Faulty perceptions or interpretations of reality, such as "hearing voices".
What are hallucinations?
Freud’s method of psychotherapy.
What is psychoanalysis?
The tendency to attribute behavior to internal causes without regard to situational influences.
What is fundamental attribution error?
Excessive fear of enclosed spaces.
What is claustrophobia?
The part of our identity that involves our sense of ourselves as members of a particular group, also called group identity.
What is social identity?
This disorder involves persistent intrusive thoughts combined with repetitive behaviors or rituals.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
This type of therapy draws upon principles and techniques representing different schools of therapy.
What is eclectic?
Solomon Asch's famous line experiment demonstrated this concept; which refers to the tendency to adjust one's behavior to actual or perceived social pressures.
What is conformity?
This disorder is also called multiple personality disorder or split personality.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
This theory suggests that individuals are motivated to reconcile discrepancies between their behavior and their attitudes, beliefs, or perceptions.
What is cognitive dissonance?
An abnormal shrinkage of brain tissue and enlarged ventricles is most likely associated with this disorder.
What is schizophrenia?
This technique pairs exposure to fear-inducing stimuli and states of deep relaxation.
What is systematic desensitization?
This type of therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, focuses on the exploration of the self.
What is client-centered therapy?
A form of therapy for severe depression that involves the administration of an electrical shock to the head.
What is electroconvulsive therapy? (ECT)
Sternberg conceptualized love in terms of these three components.
What are intimacy, passion, and commitment?
This model stresses that the development of disorders involves the interaction of genetic predispositions and exposure to environmental stress.
What is diathesis-stress model?
The three major groupings of psychotropic drugs.
What are Antianxiety, Antidepressants, Antipsychotics?
A preconceived opinion or attitude about an issue, person, or group.
What is prejudice?
Your favorite professor of the semester?
Who is Dr. Castellino? :-)