Development
The transition period from childhood to adulthood, _________, extends from puberty to independence.
What is adolescence?
__________ is the science of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
A __________ is a syndrome marked by clinically significant disturbance in a person’s thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.
What is psychological disorder?
__________ is continued substance craving and use despite significant life disruption and/or physical risk.
What is substance abuse disorder?
_________ is treatment that involves psychological techniques and consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
What is psychotherapy?
Our sense of self, or __________, is reached by testing and blending various roles.
What is identity?
A _________ is a nerve cell.
What is a neuron?
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, or __________ is a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.
What is the DSM-V?
Our _________ are feelings that are often based on our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.
What are attitudes?
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior is _________.
What is psychosurgery?
The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement is our _________.
What is social clock?
Feelings of high or low self-worth is our __________.
What is self-esteem?
__________ are psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes.
What is mood disorder?
In psychodynamic theory, the ego uses ___________ or protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
What are defense mechanisms?
__________ is a therapeutic approach that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.
What is behavior therapy?
_________ is all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
What is cognition?
According to Freud, our __________ is a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. Contemporary psychologists say it is information processing of which we are unaware.
What is the unconscious?
Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety are __________.
What are anxiety disorders?
The ___________ is the concept that psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital.
What is the medical model?
Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology are __________.
What is biomedical therapy?
Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas is ___________.
What is assimiliation?
The __________ integrates different but complementary views from biological, psychological, and social-cultural viewpoints.
What is the biopsychosocial approach?
A psychological disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and /or diminished, inappropriate emotional expression is called ___________.
What is schizophrenia?
Inflexible and enduring behavior pattern that impairs social functioning are known as __________.
What are personality disorders?
A therapeutic approach that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking is called __________.