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Personality
Psychological Disorders
Therapy
Social Psychology
Grab Bag
100
This is an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting.
What is personality
100
These are ongoing patterns of behavior that are different from those of most other people in your culture.
What is deviant behavior
100
These are mental health therapies that involve prescribed drugs or other procedures that act directly on a patient's nervous system.
What are biomedical therapies
100
This theory accounts for how people explain others' behavior.
What is attribution theory
100
These are belief-based feelings that guide behavior.
What are attitudes
200
Freud says this is the part of personality that represents our sense of right and wrong and our ideal standards.
What is the superego
200
This book does not explain the causes of various psychological disorder; however, it does increase reliability of diagnosis.
What is the DSM-IV-TR
200
This therapy seeks to help people gain insight into the unconscious origins of their disorder.
What is psychoanalysis
200
We have this when our actions are incongruent with our attitudes.
What is cognitive dissonance
200
The symptoms are flat affect and catatonia.
What is schizophrenia
300
These are the characteristic patterns of behavior and conscious motives.
What are traits
300
This disorder is characterized by a continuous state of tension, apprehension, and autonomic nervous system arousal.
What is generalized anxiety disorder
300
This type of therapy teaches the client to take more responsibility for their own feelings and actions.
What is humanistic therapy
300
This researcher investigated conformity by studying a group's judgement of the length of lines.
Who is Solomon Asch
300
This theorist emphasized that an individual's personal growth is promoted by interactions with others who are genuine, accepting, and empathetic.
Who is Carl Rogers (Humanistic Approach)
400
The perception that your fate is determined by luck.
What is external locus of control
400
These are offensive and unwanted thoughts that persistently preoccupy a person.
What are obsessions
400
Exposure therapy and aversive conditioning are both specific techniques of this.
What is counterconditioning
400
This researcher studied obedience by having "teachers" shock "learners".
Who is Milgram
400
This is when an individual is overexcited, hyperactive, and wildly optimistic.
What is mania
500
This need is satisfied when Maslow suggests that you have fulfilled your potential.
What is self-actualization
500
This disorder is associated with an excess of receptors for dopamine.
What is schizophrenia
500
This therapy emphasizes that people are often disturbed because of their negative interpretations of events.
What is cognitive therapy
500
This is when people exert less effort when they are pooling their efforts toward a common goal.
What is social loafing
500
This therapy has most directly contributed to the sharp reduction in the number of residents in the U.S. mental hospitals.
What is drug therapy