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Psychological Therapies
Biomedical Treatments
Social Psychology
Trait Theories
Miscellaneous Concepts
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In this form of therapy, the presumed problem(s) are barriers to self-understanding and self-acceptance. The treatment for this is active listening and relfection.
What is Humanistic therapy, or Client-Centered therapy.
100
This shocking and long-practiced form of treatment has gotten a bad rap from movies and other forms of social media.
What is ETC, or Electro-Convulsive Therapy.
100
Feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.
What is attitude.
100
Overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders.
What is the Spotlight Effect.
100
1. Opposite of down. 2. Chaser of cats.
What is up dog?
200
This form of therapy seeks to help the client relearn adaptive behaviors and extinguish problematic ones.
What is Behavioral therapy.
200
Although commonly used to treat depression, these drugs have also been shown to help with anxiety disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder.
What are SSRIs, or Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors.
200
This study explored the importance of personal responsibility, conformity, and the power of social figures.
What is Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments.
200
These traits are thought to be the best descriptors of someone's personality.
What is the Big Five. Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.
200
An iceberg is used to help psychology students conceptualize these three things.
What is the Id, Ego, and Superego.
300
Clients of this form of therapy are taught to reduce anxiety through self-insight. The therapist interprets the patient's memories and feelings.
What is Psychodynamic therapy.
300
This discontinued form of treatment was common between the 1930s and 1950s, and is now considered a crude form of neurosurgery.
What is a Lobotomy.
300
This study discovered the importance of one's social role, relieving cognitive dissonance, and how context defines how we interact with others.
What is Philip Zimbardo's prison experiment.
300
These two axes can explain much about a someone's personality.
What is Introverted/Extroverted and Stable/Unstable.
300
These famous psychologists founded the Humanistic school of therapy.
Who are Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. Maslow created the concept of Self-Actualization Rogers created the concept of Unconditional Positive Regard.
400
Negative, self-defeating thinking is replaced by promoting healthier thinking and self-talk.
What is Cognitive therapy.
400
This form of therapy involves use of a powerful magnet, and often has the same effect as ECT without the side effects.
What is rTMS, or Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
400
When groups of like-minded individuals talk, they tend to feel more strongly about a topic than before.
What is Group Polarization.
400
The interacting influence of behavior, internal cognition, and environment on a person.
What is reciprocal determinism.
400
These tools are often used by people to protect themselves from their own discomfort and from the prying eyes of others.
What are defense mechanisms. Denial, Reaction Formation, Regression, Displacement, Projection, Rationalization, and Repression
500
A therapist treats a client by having him or her assess his/her actions and feelings in a situation. If either is self-harming, the therapist promotes changing them.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral therapy.
500
Fascinatingly, when dopamine levels in the brain are too LOW, symptoms of this disorder start to appear. Alternatively, when dopamine levels in the brain are too HIGH, symptoms of another disorder appear.
What is Parkinson's disease and Schizophrenia.
500
This form of social influence differs from another in that it can lead to strong, sometimes irrational outward behavior, whereas the other simply involves accepting a group's consensus about the environment.
What is the difference between normative social influence and informational social influence.
500
This trait is an early predictor of a person's future achievement and sense of self-worth.
What is Self-Control.
500
This form of therapy involves treating anxieties by showing the client that they have nothing to fear from the object or situation they are afraid of.
What is exposure therapy. This is a behavioral treatment.