involves inducing a seizure in the brain which often relieves symptoms of depression
What is ECT, Electro-convulsive therapy?
100
medications such as lithium and anti-seizure that treat Bipolar Disorder, often through neurotransmitter glutamate
What are mood stabilizers?
100
states that the greater the number of people around, the less likely any individual is to step up and help another person
What is the bystander effect?
100
the branch of psychology that studies criminal behavior, the criminal justice system, and legal issues
What is forensic psychology?
200
a behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders that involves gradually exposing the person to the feared object or situation until their response is extinguished
What is exposure therapy?
200
eating disorder that involves restriction of calories, failure to maintain normal body weight, and body distortion
What is anorexia nervosa?
200
symptoms that involve the patient doing things in excess, or doing things
What are positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
200
the mental process of classifying people into different groups based on common characteristics
What is social categorization?
200
a model of stress that focuses on difficult, uncontrollable life circumstances such as poverty, crime, and discrimination as a source of stress
What is Social/Cultural stress?
300
a class of disorders that involve excessive feelings of dread, nervousness, worry, and fear
What is Anxiety Disorder?
300
term for the different personalities that emerge in DID
What is alter?
300
symptoms that involve the patient not doing things he or she should be doing; not socializing, decrease in language, decrease in self-care
What are negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
300
the branch of psychology that studies how a person's thoughts, feelings and behavior are influenced by the presence of other people and the social environment
What is Social Psychology?
300
an explanatory style that is protective against effects of stress; involves making external, stable, and specific explanations about events
What is optimism?
400
a persistent and irrational fear of a specific object or situation
What is phobia?
400
characterized by the emergence of more than one personality, usually in a person who has experienced severe early abuse
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
400
therapy based on principles of classical conditioning and operant conditioning
What is Behavioral Therapy?
400
tendency to think that all members of the out-group are very similar, in appearance or other characteristics
What is out-group homogeniety effect?
400
an explanatory style that predisposes people to experiencing more stress and involves internal, stable, and global explanations for events
What is pessimism?
500
characterized by intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive, ritualistic actions (compulsions) that serve to reduce the patient's unrealistic fears
What is OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)?
500
a neurotransmitter involved in anxiety disorders
What is GABA?
500
school of therapy based on changing the patients irrational beliefs and interpretations that cause their emotional symptoms
What is Cognitive Therapy; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
500
the mental processes by which we form judgments about other people
What is person perception?
500
innate capabilities that infants can display after birth that enhance survival