Anxiety Disorders
What is a specific phobia? Give an example.
An individual has an intense fear of one thing.
Are these type of disorders common or rare?
Rare
What gender is Major Depression more common it?
Women
What is the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist
Psychologist deal with long-term treatments of patients with disorders whereas psychiatrists prescribe medications and deal with the most serve cases.
What type of social influence did Milgram's study use
Obedience
This disorder is characterized by flashbacks, vivid dreams of the even, and will relive the even INITIALLY following a traumatic event.
Acute Stress Disorder
What is Dissociative Amnesia?
A person forgets a part of type due to an emotional of physical trauma.
Define Bipolar Disorder
When a person experiences periods of mood that can range from severe depression to mania.
Describe the Psycho dynamic Approach
Believe that the root of the cause is from childhood and free association and dream analysis are frequently used.
List the four aspects of the source that influence whether or not we are persuaded
physical attraction
similarity
Familiarity
Credibility
Define Generalized Anxiety Disorder
An anxiety disorder characterized by the person being worried about every and always being anxious.
What did Dissociative Identity Disorder use to be called?
Multiple Personality Disorder
What is Dysthymia
chronic low to moderate levels of depression averaging 5-10 years
What is unconditional positive regard and what approach is it seen in?
What are the three types of social influence please define them
conformity- indirect request
Compliance-direct request
Obedience- Command/order
Which disorder literally translates to fear of market place and what is it?
Agoraphobia and intense fear of going out into open or crowded locations.
Define Depersonalization
The person will feel like they are looking at your life from an observers view.
List the four types of Schizophrenia
Disorganized
Paranoid
Catatonic
Undifferentiated
What is the Biomedical approach and what were the three types discussed in class?
This treatment stems from medicine, not psychology and are treating the person biologically. The three types were
Chemical treatments
Electroconvulsive
Psychosurgery
Describe the foot-in-the-door technique and the door-in- the-face technique
foot in the door- ask for something small, then your real request
door in the face- ask for something larger, then your real request
Describe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, please be sure to differentiate an obsession from a compulsion.
A disorder in which the person has reoccurring pervasive thoughts that causes them to be forced to engage in repetitive behaviors. If they are to not act on their compulsions they become incredibly anxious.
What is the difference between a dissociative fugue and dissociative amnesia?
In a dissociative fugue the person forgets their identity and travels whereas a dissociative amnesia they forget a portion of time.
Describe the different between Bipolar I and Bipolar II
Bipolar I rotates from depression to hypermania and Bipolar II rotates from depression to hypomania
Describe the difference between cognitive and behavioral approaches
In cognitive approaches we aim to adjust the persons believes and negative thoughts. In the behavioral approach to aim to adjust the persons unwanted behaviors.
Describe Sternberg's Triangular model of Love
Three components: Intimacy, Passion, and commitment