Treatments
What is a drug used to treat depression called?
What is an antidepressent?
What is a disorder classified by persistent and maladaptive feelings and behaviors that can cause fear and worry?
What is Anxiety Disorder?
What is a therapy which believes that the cause of unresolved tensions lies within the mind? (change your thinking, change your functioning)
What is Cognitive Therapy?
Who was Sigmun Freud?
The act of assuming a different role, and putting oneself in another person's shoes plus acting out their feelings is known as what?
What is role playing?
Which type of drugs strive to increase neurotransmitters, and speed up their function?
What is an agonist?
What disorder is classified by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and a split of the mind from reality?
What is Schizophrenia?
What is a type of therapy which treats seasonal depression through an increase of light?
What is Light-Exposure Therapy?
Which psychologist believed that the whole was greater than the sum of the parts and influenced a therapy later developed which focuses on HOW one feels rather than WHY?
Who was Max Wertheimer?
What is the act of using several existing experiments and pieces of data to aid in ones own studies, and create one cumulative study?
What is meta-analysis?
Which mood-stabilizing salt is used to treat Bipolar Disorder?
What is lithium?
What is a disorder classified by a person's repetitive obsessions, which spur compulsions?
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
What is an integrative therapy that involves cognitive therapy with aspects of behavior therapy?
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy?
A form of conditioning which involves the pairing of an unpleasant stimulus with an unwanted behavior, most closely parallels the studies of what psychologist?
Who was John Garcia?
What is an operant conditioning technique in which a society uses specific tokens that can be exchanged for desirable things such as priveleges or rewards?
What is a Token Economy?
What is a procedure in which nerves that connect to the brain's frontal lobe are cut in order to aid in the controlling of a person's behavior?
What is a lobotomy?
What is a large fear of crowds and open spaces, which may cause one to feel a lack of control called?
What is Agoraphobia?
What is a therapy used to treat specific phobias which involves people being faced with stimuli that they feel threatened or afraid by, little-by-little, in order to eventually alienate their fear.
Which psychologist developed a form of therapy which involves unconditional positive regard?
Who was Carl Rogers?
What is an eating disorder characterized by periods of binge-eating, followed by periods of purging?
What is Bulimia?
What is a treatment in which ones brain receives magnetic stimulation in order to slow down brain activity?
What is rTMS?
What is Dissociative fugue?
A form of therapy in which a therapist listens without judging or speaking and providing any guidance.
Which psychologist developed a highly confrontational form of behavioral therapy, which involves a therapist's intervention after an irrational thought.
Who was Albert Ellis?
What are the two main categories in therapy today?
What are psychotherapy and biomedical therapy?