Stress and Positive Psychology
The perception that we control our fate
What is an internal locus of control?
The concept that diseases, in this case 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?
A disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, two or more weeks with five or more symptoms, at least one of which must be either:
Depressed mood
Loss of interest or pleasure
What is major depressive disorder?
A group of disorders characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking or speech, disorganized or unusual motor behavior, and negative symptoms(such as diminished emotional expression);
What is schizophrenia spectrum disorders?
An approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy
What is the eclectic approach?
According to Kurt Lewin, in this conflict a person is faced two undesirable outcomes.
What is an avoidance-avoidance conflict?
Intense fear and avoidance of social situations
What is social anxiety disorder(also known as social phobia)
A hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in which dangerously poor judgement is common. Characterized by less sleep, loud speech, and feelings of grandiosity.
What is mania(or the manic phase)?
Diminished or abnormal emotional expression.
What is the flat affect?
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within an accepting, genuine, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth
What is person-centered therapy(aka client-centered therapy)?
People’s tendency to be helpful when in a good mood
What is the feel-good, do-good phenomenon?
A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, hypervigilance, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more
What is posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD)
The most severe form of this disorder in which people experience a euphoric, talkative, highly energetic, and overly ambitious state that lasts a week or longer
What is Bipolar I disorder?
A form of schizophrenia in which symptoms usually appear by late adolescence or early adulthood
What is chronic schizophrenia?
The process, begun in the late twentieth century, of moving people with psychological disorders out of institutional facilities
What is deinstitutionalization?
According to Hans Selye, during this stage of the GAS, your adrenal glands pump hormones into your bloodstream, summoning all resources to meet the challenge
What is resistance?
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a particular object, activity, or situation.
What is a specific phobia?
Compulsive fretting; overthinking our problems and their causes
What is rumination?
A disorder in which people with intact brains reportedly experience memory gaps, not remembering trauma-related specific events, people, places, or aspects of their identity and life history
What is dissociative amnesia?
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.
What is systematic desensitization?
Proposes that positive emotions broaden our awareness, which over time helps us build novel and meaningful skills and resilience that improve well-being
An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
This neurotransmitter is scarce during depression(two possible answers).
What is serotonin or norepinephrine?
Psychological disorder marked by extreme inattention and/or hyperactivity and impulsivity
What is Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder(ADHD)?
Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorders
What are antipsychotic drugs?