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Attitude Adjustment
Just Relax!
Social Butterfly
I Feel so Much Better!
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Feelings that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.
What are attitudes?
100
These disorders are characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.
What are anxiety disorders?
100
The set of prescribed behaviors associated with a particular social position.
What is a role?
100
Sigmund Freud developed this approach to treatment.
What is psychoanalysis?
100
The scientific study of mental disorders and their treatment.
What is abnormal psychology?
200
This theory proposes that when we cannot change reality, we change our attitude in order to alleviate our discomfort.
What is cognitive dissonance theory?
200
Jane shows symptoms of this disorder. She is continually tense and apprehensive, but cannot seem to identify a specific cause for her anxiety.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
200
Asch's line judgment experiment demonstrated our tendency to do this.
What is conform?
200
A group of therapies based on the premise that a person's actions must change for therapy to be effective.
What are action therapies?
200
This label includes major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder.
What is mood disorders?
300
If we aren't sure of our own attitude, we determine them based on our past behaviors, according to this theory.
What is Bem's self-perception theory?
300
These conditions have interesting/unusual Latin and Greek names.
What are phobias?
300
This researcher conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
300
This therapist worked with Gloria, demonstrating his "unconditional positive regard."
Who is Carl Rogers?
300
This refers the tendency to excessively apply newly acquired knowledge about disorders.
What is medical student syndrome?
400
In this technique, you ask a friend to watch your dog for a period of two weeks and when they say, "no," you then ask them to watch your dog for the weekend - which is what you really wanted all along- and they agree.
What is the door-in-the face technique?
400
Individuals with agoraphobia often develop the disorder in response to this experience.
What is a panic attack?
400
The expectation that we should return help to those who help us.
What is the reciprocity norm?
400
A counterconditioning procedure in which a fear response is replaced with a relaxation response in a series of progressively increasing fear-arousing steps.
What is systematic desensitization?
400
What are the three "D's" that indicate an individual's behavior may be cause for concern.
What are deviant, distressful, & dysfunctional?
500
When we accept others' opinions about reality in order to gain approval or avoid disapproval.
What is normative social influence?
500
These behaviors serve to alleviate the anxiety provoked by intrusive, unwanted, thoughts.
What are compulsions?
500
The brutal murder of this young woman sparked research into the bystander effect.
Who is Kitty Genovese?
500
The average psychotherapy client is better off than this approximate percentage of those who do not engage in therapy.
What is 80%?
500
In the study by this name, researchers attempted to gain admittance into mental hospitals by pretending to have auditory hallucinations.
What is "On Being Sane in Insane Places"?