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Personality
Disorders
Therapy
Social Psychology
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What is the psychoanalytic theory when it comes to Personality?
Childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations
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What disorder is this: continually tense and jittery, worried bad things might happen, sleeplessness
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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What is psychotherapy?
Involves an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and a mental patient
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What are biochemical influences?
Hormones, alcohol, other substances in the blood
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True or false: Maslow believed some neurological disorders had psychological rather than physiological causes
False, Freud said that
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What is the Humanistic approach?
Focuses on inner capabilities for growth and self-fulfillment
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What is a phobia?
Focus of anxiety on a specific object, activity & situation
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What's the eclectic approach?
Uses various forms of healing techniques depending upon the client's unique problems
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What is the attribution theory?
We give explanations for someone's behavior, often by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition
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What is repression?
Banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts and feelings from consciousness
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What is free association?
Events in one's life are all connected
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What is PTSD?
Post-traumatic stress disorder, caused by traumatic stress symptoms like haunting memories and nightmares, insomnia and social withdrawal
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What type of therapy is person-centered therapy?
Humanistic therapy
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What is foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request
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This is an example of what? A student snaps at a roomate over an exam
Displacement
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What is the superego?
Morality principle, wants to be perfect
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What is post-traumatic growth?
Struggle with challenging crises often leads to people to report an increased appreciation of life and meaningful relationships
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What is counter conditioning?
Procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors
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True or false: we may express compliance toward authority
True
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What is dysthymic disorder?
Not as severe as depression, but more than a blue mood, lasts every day for more than two years
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What is rationalization?
When you generate self-justifying explanations to hide from ourselves the real reasons for our actions
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What is DSM-IV?
Describes disorders, defines a diagnostic process and 16 clinical syndromes
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What is systematic desensitization?
Baby steps - a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
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What is the bystander effect?
Won't give aid if bystanders are present
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Free association is an example of what?
Psychoanalysis