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Stress
Anxiety
Treatment
OCD
Theoretical Perspectives
100
A demand made on an organism to adapt or adjust.
What is stress
100
An emotional state characterized by physiological arousal, unpleasant feelings of tension, and a sense of apprehension or foreboding
What is Anxiety
100
A behaviour therapy for overcoming fears by means of exposure to high levels of fear-inducing stimuli
What is Flooding
100
A recurring thought or image that the individual cannot control.
What is an obsession
100
A growing contemporary movement within psychology that focuses on the positive attributes of human behavior
What is Positive Psychology
200
A prolonged maladaptive reaction to a traumatic event
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disoder (PTSD)
200
A type of anxiety disorder characterized by general feelings of dread and foreboding and heightened states of bodily arousal. Is characterized by persistent feelings of anxiety that are not tirggered by any speicific object, situation, but rather seems to be what Freud labeled "free floating"
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder
200
A form of exposure therapy involving the presentation of phobic stimuli in a virtual reality environment
What is Virtual Reality Therapy
200
accumulation of and need to retain unnecessary and seemingly useless possessions, causing personal distress or making it difficult to maintain a safe, habitable living space.
What is Hoarding
200
Oversensitivity to threatening cues, overpredictions of dangerousness, and self-defeating thoughts and irrational beliefs
What is the Cognitive Perspective
300
Pressure to adjust to a host or mainstream culture.
What is acculturative stress
300
Type of Anxiety Disorder characterized by repeated episode of intense anxiety or panic. The attacks are accompanied by feelings of sheer terror or impending doom and sense of imminent danger and by an urge to escape the situation.
What is Panic Disorder
300
A controversial form of therapy for PTSD that involves eye tracking a visual target while holding images of traumatic experiences in mind
What is Eye Movement desnsitiziation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
300
A repetitive or ritualistic behavior that the person feels compelled to perform
What is an compulsion
300
The fear component of phobia is believed to be acquired through classical conditioning, as previously neutral objects and situations gain the capacity to evoke fear by being paired with noxious or aversive stimuli.
What is the Learning Perspective
400
The Body's three-stage response to states of prolonged or excessive stress, which includes the alarm, resistance, and exhaustion stage
What is the General Adaptation Syndrome
400
A fear of an object or situation that is disproportionate to the threat it poses
What is a phobia
400
In behaviour therapy, a method of overcoming fears through a stepwise process of exposure to increasingly fearful stimuli in imagination or in real-life situations
What is Gradual Exposure
400
preoccupation with an imagined or exaggerated physical defect in appearance causing individuals to feel they are ugly or even disfigured.
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder
400
an unusually sensitive alarm system (aka suffocation false alarm theory) or fear network in the brain involving the limbic system and frontal lobes that normally respond to cues of threat or danger
What is Biological Perspective
500
A traumatic stress reaction in which the person shows a maladaptive pattern of behavior for a period of three days to one month following exposure to a traumatic event.
What is Acute Stress Disorder (ASD)
500
Excessive, irrational fear of open or public places
What is Agoraphobia
500
A behaviour therapy technique for overcoming phobias by means of exposure to progressively more fearful stimuli (in imagination or by viewing slides) while remaining deeply relaxed
What is Systematic Desensitization
500
trichotillomania
What is hair pulling
500
Anxiety is a danger signal that threatening impulses of a sexual or aggressive (murderous or suicidal) nature are nearing the level of awareness
What is the Psychodynamic Perspective