Psychopathology
A pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are deviant, disordered, dysfunctional, and/or dangerous.
What is Psychological Disorder?
Includes Psychosurgery, Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy
What are Modern Treatments?
Is characterized by feelings of extreme unhappiness and hopelessness and interferes with a person’s work, sleep, eating, and life.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
Subfield of psychology that focuses on how the social environment influences the behavior of the individual.
What is Social Psychology?
Include the individuals with whom we directly identify and perceive as most similar to us.
What is In-Groups?
An approach to psychology that considers complex effects social cultural factors on individual behavior.
What is Sociocultural Model?
Procedures performed on the brain in order to alleviate severe symptoms of mental illness that are not responsive to less invasive treatments.
What are Psychosurgeries?
May experience feelings of tremendous fear without reasonable cause.
What is Panic Disorder?
Sayings such as “Boys are messy”, “Women are bad drivers”, and “Tall people play basketball.”
What are Stereotypes?
A therapeutic technique in which the therapist pays close attention to their clients’ words and then echoes, paraphrases, and clarifies what the client says.
What is Active Listening?
The standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals
What is DSM-5?
Medications which balance out extreme moods by acting on neurotransmitters that influence the mood or behavior?
What are Mood Stabilizers?
A disorder characterized by disordered and/or delusional thinking, distorted sensory and perceptual experiences, and blunted or inappropriate emotions and behaviors.
What is Schizophrenia?
The tendency for the likelihood of receiving help to decrease as the number of people who witness the emergency increases is known as:
What is Bystander Effect?
Part of Freud’s structure of personality that is the conscious, or set of ethics.
What is Superego?
Their study made the realization that when someone is diagnosed as mentally ill, we often interpret most of their behavior as part of the disorder.
Who is David Rosenhan?
A type of therapy which helps clients to change potentially self-destructive behavior through addressing negative thought patterns that fuel the behavior.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapies?
Characterized by recurring episodes of binge eating without accompanying compensatory behaviors. (Results in significant distress caused by overeating.)
What is Binge Eating Disorder?
Made up of three components: Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive
What are Attitudes?
Behavior that interferes with a person's’ ability to perform necessary activities, such as going to work or caring for family members.
What is Dysfunctional?
A. Odd or eccentric.
B. Dramatic or erratic.
C. Anxious or fearful.
What are clusters?
Includes the Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) and Light Exposure Therapy.
What are Alternative Therapies?
Distinct identities are thought to alternatively control a person’s behavior, often as a result of severe trauma.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Can change your behavior and attitude to decrease:
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
The error in which we tend to make more personal attributions than situational attributions when observing others’ behavior.
What is Fundamental Attribution Error?