Personality
Oppenness
Conscienciousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
List some coping strategies
Many possible answers
T or F: Cognitive distortions can contribute to feelings of depression.
T
________ is designed to reveal a client's hidden feelings and motives so that she can deal with them more effectively.
We place people we meet in a category based on what we notice about them and our associations with those cues. In social psychology, we refer to these associations as:
schemas
Carl Jung and Alfred Adler differ from Freud in deemphasizing
Sexuality
Which of the following is most likely to develop PTSD? A) Conflict B) Pressure C) A Catastrophe D) Frustration
C
4 D's psychologists examine to identify psychological disorders are:
Distress, Dysfunction, Deviance, Danger
Therapy that depends on identifying and changing inappropriately negative and self- critical patterns of thought is ________ therapy.
Cognitive
A _______ is a set of characteristics presumed to be shared by every member of a social category.
Stereotype
A defensive coping strategy, ________ involves redirecting motives and feelings into more socially acceptable channels.
Sublimation
Suzanne, who is in the middle of her final exams, is experiencing a great deal of stress. To make things worse, she has developed a bad cold.Why?
Stress has disrupted the functioning of her immune system, which has caused increased susceptibility to the cold virus.
Which of the following behavior patterns is a characteristic symptom of autism spectrum disorder?
-intense fear of rejection and of being alone
-difficulties with social and emotional interaction
-impulsiveness
-the occurrence of hallucinations
-difficulties with social and emotional interaction
According to the 1995 Consumer Reports study on the effectiveness of psychotherapy, people experienced the most improvement when treatment lasted for how long?
2+ years
According to the "fundamental attribution error," we tend to overemphasize ________ factors as causes of our own behavior and overemphasize ________ factors as causes of the behavior of other people.
Situational; Personal
Alberto is generally distrustful; he does not readily comply with requests made by others, and in conversation, he shares very few details about himself. Using the five-factor model, a trait theorist would describe Alberto's personality as low in...
low in agreeableness.
Bob wants to go to graduate school in pharmacology, but he is very concerned about the intense studying that will be required to complete the curriculum. Bob is faced with a(n):
approach/avoidance conflict.
According to the DSM-5, people who suffer from ________ disorder experience symptoms that are generally less severe than symptoms of major depressive disorder, but the symptoms are present most days and remain for at least 2 years.
Persistent Depressive Disorder
Kallie is terrified of spiders, so much so that even a shadow in her peripheral vision can trigger a debilitating panic attack. To help reduce her anxiety and fear, Kallie's therapist suggests an exercise that will involve Kallie putting her feet into a tank full of spiders for a prolonged period of time. The therapist has suggested a form of ________ , a desensitization technique that requires full-intensity exposure
Flooding
Four factors of interpersonal attraction are:
Proximity, Physical Attractiveness, Similarity, Intimacy