Personality
Relatively enduring predispositions that influence our behaviour across many situations.
What are traits?
During the middle ages, signs of mental illness were believed to be caused by this.
What are demons?
Person-centred therapy is a type of this therapy.
What is insight therapy?
Is both the most worshipped and the most widely criticized personality theorist.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
In Sigmund Freud's theory, this operates according to the pleasure principle.
What is the id?
This is used to help psychological professionals diagnose psychological disorders.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)?
Family therapy is a form of this therapy.
What is group therapy?
Suggested that people with an inferiority complex are prone to self-esteem and attempt to overcompensate for this feeling.
Who is Alfred Adler?
This humanistic concept refers to the drive to develop our innate potential to the fullest possible extent.
What is self-actualization?
The most prevalent of all mental disorders.
What are anxiety disorders?
Systematic desensitization is specifically designed to help a person to deal with these.
What are phobias?
This neo-Freudian suggested the existence of archetypes, a collective unconscious that contains images shared by all people.
Who is Carl Jung?
Personality trait that through molecular genetic studies has been linked to genetic markers in the dopamine system.
What is novelty seeking?
Intruding thoughts that occur again and again.
What are obsessions?
A frequently prescribed drug therapy for managing depression.
What is Prozac?
This researcher developed Person-Centred Therapy, which centers on the client’s goals and ways of solving problems.
Who is Carl Rogers?
Studies in Germany and Finland suggest the existence of this sixth trait in addition to the Big Five traits.
What is honesty and humility?
There are a variety of risk factors associated with schizophrenia, but research suggests this seems to be a necessary factor.
What is genetic predisposition?
If a clinicians wants to use this to treat a patient, then a Research Ethics Board (REB) must approve the request.
What is psychosurgery?
This researcher developed the ABCDEs of Rational Emotive Therapy.
Who is Albert Ellis?