Psychology 201- Exam 6 Review

Phobia

Persistent, irrational fears of objects, situations, or activities, is referred to as what?

Major Depressive Disorder

This disorder is characterized by extreme and persistent feelings of despondency, worthlessness, and hopelessness, causing impaired emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and physical functioning.

Psychotherapy

This treatment of emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems through the use of psychological techniques designed to encourage understanding of problems and modify troubling feelings, behaviors, and relationships.

Dream Interpretation

This technique is used in psychoanalysis and the content of dreams is analyzed for disguised or symbolic wishes, meanings, and motivations.

Borderline Personality Disorder

This personality disorder is characterized by instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotions, and marked impulsivity.

Fight or Flight Response

Carmen is out for a run at the park. During the course of her run she almost steps on a snake. She happens to look down and see the snake and immediately jumps back and screams. This is an example of what?

Problem-focused Coping

This type of coping strategy focuses on changing the situation.

Antipsychotic medications

Prescription drugs that are used to reduce psychotic symptoms are known as what?

Electroconvulsive Therapy

This type of biomedical therapy is used primarily in the treatment of major depressive disorder and involves electrically inducing a brief brain seizure.

Dysthymic Disorder

This disorder involves chronic, low-grade feelings of depression that produce subjective discomfort but do not seriously impair the ability to function.

Daily Hassle

Amber is running late to work and every single light turns red as she approaches, thus causing her some minor stress. This type of stress would be classified as what?

Dissociative Disorders

This is a category of psychological disorders in which extreme and frequent disruptions of awareness, memory, and personal identity impair the ability to function.

Psychoanalysis

This type of therapy uses free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflict.

Anti-anxiety medications

Prescription drugs that are used to alleviate the symptoms of anxiety.

Biomedical Therapy

The use of medications, electroconvulsive therapy, or other medical treatments to treat the symptoms associated with psychological disorders.

Cyclothymic Disorder

This disorder is characterized by moderate but frequent mood swings that are not severe enough to qualify as bipolar disorder.

General Anxiety Disorder

This disorder is characterized by global, persistent, chronic, and excessive apprehension.

Client-centered Therapy

This type of psychotherapy, developed by humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers, is characterized as non directive, reflective, and allows the client to direct the focus of each therapy session.

Transference

The process by which emotions and desires originally associated with a significant person in the patient's life are unconsciously transferred onto the psychoanalyst.

Pyschotropic Medications

These drugs alter mental functions, alleviate psychological symptoms, and are used to treat psychological and mental disorders.

Schizophrenia

The psychological disorder in which the ability to function is impaired by severely distorted beliefs, perceptions, and thought processes.

Panic Disorder

Faith experiences frequent and unexpected panic attacks. She could be diagnosed with what?

Free Association

This technique is used in psychoanalysis and the patient spontaneously reports all thoughts, feelings, and mental images as they come to mind, as a way of revealing unconscious emotions and thoughts.

PTSD

This disorder is triggered by exposure to a highly traumatic event which results in recurrent, involuntary, and intrusive memories of the event; avoidance of stimuli, and situations associated with the events; negative changes in thoughts, moods, and emotions; and persistent state of heightened physical arousal.

Directly affected

Will is studying for his final and he must get an A on his last final in order to graduate. He is starting to get headaches along with a slight cough. Is he being affected directly or indirectly by this stress?

Bipolar Disorder

This disorder involves periods of incapacitating depression alternating with periods of extreme euphoria and excitement.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

This type of therapy integrates cognitive and behavioral techniques and is based on the assumption that thoughts, moods, and behaviors are interrelated.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

This personality disorder is characterized by a sense of self-importance.

Emotional-focused coping

Chris is stressed and upset because he didn't get accepted into his top choice school. He decides to look on the bright side of things and chose that school that he decided was a better fit. Instead of remaining upset and dwelling on his rejection he ended up thinking positively. This is an example of what?

Group Therapy

A form of psychotherapy that involves one or more therapists working simultaneously with a small group of clients.

Antidepressant medications

Prescription drugs that are used to reduce the symptoms associated with major depressive disorder.

Indirectly affected

Sam has had a loss of appetite and sleep as well as increased forgetfulness during the last week of school. Is this stress affecting Sam directly or indirectly?

Paranoid Personality Disorder

This personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of the motive of others without sufficient basis.

Resistance

In psychoanalysis the patient's unconscious attempts to block the revelation of repressed memories and conflicts.