A method of psychotherapy developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes the exploration of unconscious motives and conflicts
What is psychotherapy?
100
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)
What is a manual designed to assist mental health professionals in the determination of who does and who does not suffer from a disorder?
100
Absolute threshold.
What is the smallest quantity of physical energy that can be reliably detected by an observer?
100
Some exhilarating, shocking, or tragic events hold a special place in memory.
What are flashbulb memories?
100
An approach to psychology that emphasizes the study of observable behavior and the role of the environment as a determinant of behavior.
What is behaviorism?
200
Clients learn to explicitly identify and accept whatever negative thoughts and feelings arise, without trying to eradicate them or letting them derail healthy behavior.
What is Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT)?
200
Psychological tests used to infer a person’s motives, conflicts, and unconscious dynamics on the basis of the person’s interpretation of ambiguous stimuli.
What are projective tests?
200
The smallest difference in stimulation that can be reliably detected by an observer when two stimuli are compared.
What is Just Noticeable Difference (JND)?
200
Confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you or a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened.
What is confabulation?
200
The process by which a previously neutral stimulus acquires the capacity to elicit a response through association with a stimulus that already elicits a similar response.
What is classical conditioning?
300
In the 1960s, these types of psychologists rejected psychoanalysis and behaviorism.
What are humanist psychologists?
300
An anxiety disorder in which a person experiences recurring panic attacks, periods of intense fear, and feelings of impending doom or death, accompanied by physiological symptoms such as rapid heart rate and dizziness.
What is panic disorder?
300
The focusing of attention on selected aspects of the environment and the blocking out of others.
What is selective attention?
300
Sensory register, short-term memory, and long-term memory are all component of this type of memory.
What is the three-box model of memory?
300
A response that occurs in response to one reinforcer, and does not occur as a result of other, similar reinforcers.
What is stimulus discrimination?
400
An approach to doing therapy with individuals or families by identifying how each family member forms part of a larger interacting system.
What is family-systems perspective?
400
A disorder in which episodes of both depression and mania occur.
What is bipolar disorder?
400
Proposed that the eye has 3 different cones that detect 3 different colors: Red, blue, and green, all other colors are derived by combination, and malfunctioning of different cones explains different forms of color-blindness.
What is the trichromatic theory?
400
Remembering the words to a song and finishing a line of a song when someone sings the first two words is an example of this type of memory.
What is implicit memory?
400
When a response is followed by the removal of or decrease in intensity of an unpleasant stimulus.
What is negative reinforcement?
500
Therapeutic alliance
What is the bond of confidence and mutual understanding established between therapist and client, which allows them to work together to solve the client’s problems?
500
The 5 criteria for diagnosing schizophrenia, according to the DSM-5.
What are bizarre delusions, hallucinations, disorganized and incoherent speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, and negative symptoms?
500
Gestalt principles.
What are similarity, proximity, closure, and continuity?
500
A complex form of short-term memory that involves active mental processes that control retrieval of information from long-term memory and interpret that information appropriately for a given task.
What is working memory?
500
positive punishment.
What is when an unpleasant consequence follows a response, making the response less likely to recur?