Stress - Ch. 11
It's a demand made on a person to adapt.
What is stress?
A general term to describe behavior patterns or mental processes that cause impaired functioning or emotional distress.
What are psychological disorders?
In psychoanalysis, this is when the patient expresses their repressed feelings; a release of psychic energy.
What is catharsis?
This is a technique for inducing compliance, where a small request is followed by a larger request.
What is foot-in-the-door technique?
It's a type of behavior that involves time rushing, competitiveness, and hostility.
What is Type A behavior?
This is a type of psychological disorder that involves excessive worrying, fear of losing control, and inability to relax.
What is anxiety disorder?
This happens when the adult patient responds to the therapist in a way similar to how they might have responded to a parent or teacher in childhood.
What is transference?
This describes our tendency to take responsibility for our own successes, but blame failures on outside factors.
What is self-serving bias?
This type of person believes their ability to achieve a goal lies within themselves.
What is an "internal" (or person with internal locus of control)?
This disorder happens after a traumatic event, and is frequent among military personnel who served on active duty.
What is PTSD? (or post traumatic stress disorder)
This type of therapy, founded by Carl Rogers, emphasizes a warm, accepting environment where patients are free to express themselves and explore their feelings.
What is client-centered therapy (or person-centered therapy)?
This is an attitude toward a social or cultural group that leads us to evaluate members of the group in a negative way.
What is prejudice?
This is an automatic response/reaction to the perception of danger.
What is fight-or-flight reaction?
This disorder involves recurrent, irrational, anxiety-producing behaviors or thought and behaviors that reduce the anxiety. E.g. fear of germs/excessive hand-washing.
What is OCD (or obsessive-compulsive disorder)?
This is a controlled environment where people's good behaviors are reinforced with tokens (e.g. tickets or poker chips). The tokens can be traded for rewards or privileges.
What is a token economy?
This is hostile behavior toward whole groups of people.
What is discrimination?
Being torn in different directions by opposing motives.
What is conflict?
This is the professional manual used by psychologists to diagnose psychological disorders.
What is the DSM-V (or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)?
This behavior therapy technique pairs an offensive stimuli with a bad behavior; the goal is to decrease the frequency of the bad behavior. Example: expose a smoker to uncomfortable levels of smoke.
What is aversive conditioning?
This is a mistaken assumption that all members of a group share the same traits or characteristics.
What is a stereotype?