Health & Well-Being
Model of health that integrates the effects of biological, behavioral, and social factors on health and illness.
What is the biospsychosocial model?
In explaining other people's behavior, the tendency to overemphasize personality traits and underestimate situations.
What is fundamental attribution error?
How you feel about your sense of self.
What is self-esteem?
A sickness or disorder of the mind.
What is psychopathology?
Treatment for psychological disorders where a therapist works with clients to help them overcome their psychological problems and disorders.
What is psychotherapy?
The most common measure of obesity.
What is body mass index?
Tendency to behavior in ways that confirm expectations
What is the self-fulfilling prophecy?
In psychodynamic theory, the component of personality that reflects the internalization of societal and parental standards of conduct.
What is the superego?
Fear of being negatively evaluated by others in a social setting or performance situation
What is social anxiety disorder?
Treatment for disorders where a therapist works with clients to replace maladaptive behaviors with adaptive ones.
What is behavior therapy?
Characterized by someone beginning dieting, body goes into starvation mode, diet fails, and the body enters feast mode.
What is a yo-yo dieting cycle?
Subtle forms of prejudice that coexist with the rejection of racist beliefs
What is modern racism?
Who was Carl Rogers?
A disorder characterized by frequent intrusive thoughts that create anxiety and compulsive actions that temporarily reduce the anxiety.
Drugs that affect mental processes and that can be used to treat psychological disorders.
What are psychotropic medications?
A set of behavioral, mental , and physical processes that occur as an organism attempts to deal with an environmental event or stimulus that it perceives as threatening.
What is stress?
The increase in liking due to repeated exposure
What is the mere exposure effect?
Biologically based tendency to feel or act in certain ways.
When people experience severe stress or emotional trauma, they often have negative reactions long after the danger has passed.
What is posttraumatic stress disorder?
Treatment that involves administering a strong electrical current to the client's brain to produce a seizure; effective in some cases of severe depression.
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?
Most toxic factor on the list for heart disease.
What is hostility?
An uncomfortable mental state due ot a contradiction between two attitudes or between an attitude and a behavior.
What is cognitive dissonance?
Type of measure that explores the unconscious by having people describe or tell stories about stimulus items that are ambiguous.
What are projective measures?
A psychological disorder characterized by extreme alterations in thought, in perceptions, and/or in consciousness that result in a break from reality.
What is schizophrenia?
Therapy technique that involves exposing a client to increasingly anxiety-producing stimuli or situations while having the client relax at the same time.
What is systematic desensitization?