Disorders
The disorder that creates at least 2 distinct personalities
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
This therapy pairs something that used to cause a negative reaction with something that causes a positive reaction
What is Counter Conditioning?
This is the second stage of Piaget's cognitive theory of development
What is the Preoperational Stage?
The last time my printer wouldn't work, I hit the side of it and it worked. So this time, I tried it again and again and never checked if it was plugged in. I must have fallen into this thinking concept
What is a Mental Set?
This is the stage of sleep where most dreaming occurs
What is REM?
The disorder where the patient has no regard for the feelings of others and disregards social norms if they feel like it
What is Anti-Social Personality Disorder?
This type of therapy uses active listening and paraphrasing the client's words back to them
What is Humanistic Therapy?
This is the idea that certain milestones are "supposed" to be achieved at certain ages
What is a Social Clock?
It's raining but I didn't even think about using my plastic grocery bag as a makeshift umbrella. I guess I got caught up in this type of thinking
What is Functional Fixedness?
This illegal drug is an agonist for endorphins
What is Heroin?
The disorder where the patient can suffer from delusions of grandeur or persecution
What is Schizophrenia?
This disorder is treated with Lithium
What is Bipolar?
The results of Harlow's experiments with baby monkeys showed that this is the most important thing with respect to attachment
What is Contact Comfort or Comfort?
When you make a judgement based on the evidence that is freshest in your head, you are using this type decision making strategy
What is the Availability Heuristic?
This is the most addictive stimulant, actually most addictive drug
What is Nicotine?
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This disorder is treated with thorazine and clozaril
What is Schizophrenia?
This parenting style is all rules, all the time
"We've already had 3 boys, if we get pregnant again, it will have to be a girl, right?" A statement like this represents this thinking fallacy
What is Gambler's Fallacy?
This is the scientific name of sleep walking
What is Somnambulism?
The hypothesis that some people have the predisposition for a disorder but don't show symptoms until an environmental event triggers them
What is Diathesis Stress Hypothesis?
What is ADD/ADHD?
In Erikson's Psychosocial stages, this is the stage for young adulthood (20-40)
What is Intimacy vs. Isolation?
"I have already been going to school to be a doctor for 5 years, I can't change my career now" This is an example of this type of fallacy
What is Sunk-Cost Fallacy?
This theory of dreams says that dreams are meaningless and are the interpretation of random neurons firing
What is Activation-Synthesis Theory?