Social Psychology
When you immerse yourself in a group, lose some of your “personal identity” and feel more anonymous.
What is deindividuation?
This disorder is characterized by excessive fear of being humiliated/embarrassed in social situations.
What is social anxiety disorder?
A person diagnosed with this personality disorder is typically submissive; needs others’ reassurance and approval; follows others’ lead rather than acting independently.
What is dependent personality disorder?
This response to stress focus on challenges being opportunities; strong commitment; and an internal locus of control.
What is hardiness?
This clinician holds a medical degree and is able to prescribe medication to clients in clinical treatment.
What is a psychiatrist?
Failure to consider situational factors, leads to overestimating the amount that disposition contributed to behavior
What is fundamental attribution error?
Individuals diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder typically engage in these repetitive, ritualistic behaviors to reduce anxiety associated with intrusive, distressing thoughts.
What are compulsions?
A person diagnosed with this personality disorder is typically egotistical, entitled, and self-important; sees self as superior to others; and needs others to admire him or her.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
At this stage in General Adaptation Syndrome is an individual's health typically compromised; resource depleted; and judgment impaired.
What is Stage 3?
This type of therapy is most commonly used in treating individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and many anxiety disorders.
What is behavior therapy?
Unfair behavior based on stereotyping and prejudice
What is discrimination?
This model suggests that a person may be predisposed for a psychological disorder (e.g., genes) that remains unexpressed until triggered by stress (i.e., environment).
What is the diathesis-stress model?
A person diagnosed with this personality disorder is typically a loner with little or no desire for relationships with others; and detached and unemotional.
What is schizoid personality disorder?
An individual using this type of coping strategy responds to stress by finding solutions to specific problems.
What is problem-based coping?
This type of practice combines research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient values.
What is evidence-based practice?
Subtle and potentially unintentional acts that communicate bias to members of marginalized groups
What are microaggressions?
A disorder characterized by the profound disruption of basic psychological processes; a distorted perception of reality; altered or blunted emotion; and disturbances in thought, motivation, and behavior
What is schizophrenia?
A person diagnosed with this personality disorder is typically shows excessive and dramatic display of emotions; and seeks to be the center of attention; theatrical but emotionally shallow.
What is histrionic personality disorder?
This personality type is most likely to be at high risk of heart disease.
What is the Type A personality?
This type of treatment is considered the "gold-standard" treatment used today, especially in treating individuals diagnosed with forms of depression.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?
This bias exists when we succeed, we are likely to attribute our successes to dispositional factors, but our failures to situational factors.
What is self-serving bias?
This disorder is characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating and purging behaviors to prevent weight gain.
What is bulimia nervosa?
A person diagnosed with this personality disorder is typically unstable and unpredictable; rapidly and drastically changing view of self and others; and impulsive and tumultuous.
What is borderline personality disorder?
In response to the appraisal of a stimulus as a stressor, this system releases high levels of cortisol slowly in response to the stress.
What is the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis?
Many antidepressants used to treat depression slow down reuptake of this neurotransmitter, which is known to be involved in mood, appetite, and sleep.
What is serotonin?