Memory
Unlimited capacity storage system that can hold information over lengthy periods of time.
What is long time memory?
Personality is a combination of:
What is genetics and environment?
pressure or demand placed on a person to adapt or adjust
What is stress?
A slow decline in memory that develops over months or years.
What is Alzheimers Disease?
Enhance effects of serotonin, norepinephrine, or dopamine.
What are antidepressant medications?
The process of grouping similar or meaningful information together.
What is chunking?
A person whose attention is directed outward, a bold, outgoing person.
What is an extrovert?
A program that teaches youth how to resist pressures to begin smoking
What is Refusal skills training?
A client with schizophrenia has a flat affect, a blank face, and a decreased ability to communicate.
What is a negative symptom.
Erectile dysfunction and loss of sexual desire.
What are reasons clients stop taking antipsychotic medications?
When remembering an ordered list, the tendency to make the most errors with the middle terms.
What is the serial position effect?
Projective test that consists of complex, irregular monochromatic shapes.
What is the Rorschach Inkblot Test?
A protective behavior that reduces anxiety.
What is a defense mechanism?
Psychopathology due to various forms of damage to the nervous system during childhood.
What is a neurodevelopmental disorder?
Offers a setting in which emotional feelings can be freely expressed.
What is the protective setting of mental health counseling?
To impose an artifical organization on material if none is naturally present.
What is a mnemonic?
According to Maslow, the process of fully developing personal potentials.
What is self actualization?
keeping troubling or distressing thoughts buried in the unconscious
What is repression?
A reduction in dopamine activity can quiet a person's agitation and psychotic symptoms.
What is an antipsychotic medication?
Being an active listener and reflecting the client's thoughts and feeling.
What are basic counseling skills?
A graph that shows the amount remembered after varying lengths of time.
What is the curve of forgetting?
There is a discrepancy between one's self image and the ideal self.
What is incongruence?
A personality style associated with superior stress resistence.
What is a hardy personality?
The person has feelings of a racing heart beat, choking, thinks they are going to die, and feels trapped.
What is a panic attack?
A medication used in the treatment of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
What is Ritalin?