IQ
Personality
Disorders
Treatment
Social Psychology
100
Twin studies have shown that IQ tends to relate most closely to gene pool or environment?
What is gene pool.
100
Freud proposed that personality was made up of three levels of consciousness: the conscious, preconscious and __________.
What is unconscious.
100
The disorder most associated with losing touch with reality, in the form of delusional thinking and flat affect would be ______.
What is schizophrenia.
100
Free association and transference are associated with couch therapy and are all part of what type of treatment?
What is psychoanalysis.
100
Someone who believes that smoking is bad for you but minimizes the fact that they have been smoking for years is managing their feelings of ___________.
What is cognitive dissonance.
200
Howard Gardner and Robert Sternberg are responsible for _____________ theory.
What is multiple intelligence.
200
The Humanistic perspective is pretty optimistic in their view of personality. Fulfilling your human potential is referred to as ___________.
What is self-actualization.
200
After returning from the Iraq war Tom found himself having difficulty managing. His symptoms included nightmares, flashbacks, hypervigilence. His diagnosis likely would be ______.
What is PTSD.
200
For a phobic person treatment might include the use of incresing levels of exposure to the feared object or event along with strategies to manage anxiety with relaxation technigues is called ______________.
What is systematic relaxation.
200
That rude driver who just cut me off is a jerk. This quick judgement is an example of the ____________.
What is fundamental attribution error.
300
Creativity requires _________ thinking.
What is divergent.
300
Barb is very self-critical and often feels guilty about things most people would not. According to Freud her _____ is overactive.
What is superego.
300
July was driving to work one day when her heart started to race and she thought she was going to have a heart attack and maybe pass out. She continued to periodically experience this (there was nothing wrong with her heart) and worried a great deal about when the next attack might happen. Her diagnosis would be ______.
What is panic disorder.
300
The crack user we discussed in class used a technique to decrease the urge to use by thinking deeply about how dangerous and messed up his life is when he uses. This type of therapy can best be described as _____________.
What is aversion therapy.
300
A disturbing phenomenon involving the reluctance of people to help someone in need if they can justify in their thinking that someone else will help is referred to as __________.
What is the bystander effect.
400
This is a visual representation of scores where most scores fall near the average and fewer and fewer scores fall near the extremes.
What is the normal curve.
400
According to Big Five Trait theory the core personality traits are: Openness, extraversion,agreeableness, neuroticism and ___________.
What is conscientiousness
400
Lack of energy, feelings of worthlessness , difficulty sleeping and physical pain could all be symptoms of _____________.
What is depression
400
Jerry has a therapist that helps him with his agoraphobia by challenging his irrational fear-based thinking and having him venture away from his safety zone. Having and surviving an anxiety attack is a good thing and part of the therapy. This type of treatment is called _____.
What is exposure therapy.
400
So, I have this thing about city dwellers, I just don't think they care about the environment. In fact I think everyone who lives in cities are slobs. This woulb be an example of ________________.
What is prejudice.
500
June took an IQ test when she was 8 and again when she was 18. Here scores were almost identical. This is an example of the test having good ________.
What is reliability.
500
In the movie Grand Torino, Tao evolved in his way of responding to his environment, thinking about his future and behaving. Bandura best captures this process in his personality theory with a term called _____________.
What is reciprocal determinism.
500
The opposite of major depression in the category of mood disorders would be _________.
What is mania.
500
Challenging the irrational thinking of a client would be considered ___________ therapy.
What is cognitive.
500
Milgrams study demonstrated that individuals are more likely to ___________ authority than previously thought.
What is obey