AP Psychology: Unit 8

David Rosenhan

faked in illness and got incorrectly diagnosed

medical model

suggests that mental illnesses have physical causes

agoraphobia

irrational fear of public places with no escape

trichotillomania

constantly pulling hair

somatic system disorder

no specific cause for physiological symptoms

conversion disorder

uncontrollable physical issues caused from psychological stress

dissociative amnesia

chronically forgetting important information

psychopharmacology

treatment through medicine

token economy

therapist provides their client with a “token” after they’ve accomplished a certain behavior

rational emotive behavior theory

changes the internal thought process and shows irrationality in thinking

cognitive therapy

changed thinking changes an individual’s thought process

systematic desensitization

when an individual starts to relax and then starts to imagine a situation with said phobia

aversive conditioning

used to help a person give up a behavior by having them associate it with something unpleasant

ECT therapy

brief electric current that triggers small seizure

meta analysis

looks at statistical findings of many different research findings

evidence-based practice

integration of research with expertise