Diagnoses
T/F: Someone suffering from depression will get better only with therapy and medication
False
Trouble perceiving and relating to situations and people-unhealthy pattern of thinking, functioning, and behaving
Personality Disorder
Focuses on negative content, generally past and present, and results in emotional distress.
Rumination
Clara has a hard time controlling her anxiety and agitation at school, this is the type of medication she takes.
Antianxiety medication
Mary Cover Jones
Adolescent mood swings might be misdiagnosed as which psychological disorder
Bipolar disorder
An example of compulsion
repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Thoughts and emotions are impaired that contact is lost with external reality:
Psychosis
Electroconvulsive therapy
This psychologist developed rational emotive behavior therapy.
Albert Ellis
sensory experiences without sensory stimulation are called
hallucinations
risk of major depression and bipolar disorder dramatically increases if you
have a parent or sibling with the disorder
example of a phobia
multiple answers...
Token economy
This psychologist believed that patients through psychoanalysis could gain self-insight and be cured of their mental illness.
Sigmund Freud
modern psychologists contend that all behavior, whether it is called normal or disordered, arises from the interaction of
nature and nurture
his type of therapy diverged from the traditional views of the therapist as an expert and moved instead toward a non-directive approach that embodied the theory of actualizing tendency.
person centered therapy
The most common type of drug used to treat schizophrenia.
Antipsychotic drugs
Carol is constantly paranoid that she has a tumor in her brain, even though her doctor says all she is having are minor headaches. What could Carol be experiencing?
Illness anxiety Disorder
This psychologist is commonly known for the creation and rise of behavior modification therapy.
B.F Skinner
which of the following are symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder:
Unexplainable and continual tension
sudden episodes of intense dread
irrational and intense fear of a specific object or situation
repetitive thoughts or actions
nightmares for weeks after a severe, uncontrollable event
All of the above
The focus of treatment, diagnosis and the study of psychological and behavioral problems is what
Clinical psychology
what is manic disorder associated with
bipolar disorder
Ever since the end of quarantine, Felix has been feeling an increasingly severe anxiety when leaving his home to go to the grocery store due to the crowds that form near the check out lines. What specific fear may Felix be experiencing?
Agoraphobia
This psychologist developed a technique based on the principles of classical conditioning called systematic desensitization for the treatment of anxiety-related disorders and phobias.
Joseph Wolpe