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CHAPTER 13 Vocab A-Z Flashcards

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Medications that relieve tension, apprehension, and nervousness

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Antianxiety drugs

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Medications that gradually elevate mood and help bring people out of a depression

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Antideppressant drugs

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Medications used to gradually reduce psychotic symptoms, including hyperactivity, mental confusion, hallucinations, and delusions

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Antipsychotics

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A behavior therapy in which an aversive stimulus is paired with a stimulus that elicits an undesirable response

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Aversion therapy

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A systematic approach to changing behavior through the application of the principles of conditioning

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Behavior-modification

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Application of the principles of learning to direct efforts to change clients’ maladaptive behaviors

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Behavior therapies

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A theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior

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Behaviorism

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Physiological interventions intended to reduce symptoms associated with psychological disorders

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Biomedical therapies

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An insight therapy that plays a emphasizes providing a supportive emotional climate for clients, who play a major role in determining the pace and direction of their therapy

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Client-centered therapy

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Psychologists who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems

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Clinical psychologists

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An insight therapy that emphasizes recognizing and changing negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs

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Cognitive therapy

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A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning

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Conditioned response

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A previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned responses

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Conditioned stimulus

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A state that occurs when two or more incompatible motivations or behavioral impulses compete for expression

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Conflict

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Psychologists who specialize in the treatment of everyday adjustment problems

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Counseling psychologists

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Largely unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt

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Defense mechanisms

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Transferring the treatment of mental illness from inpatient institutions to community-based facilities that emphasize outpatient care

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Deinstitutionalization

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A psychoanalytic technique in which the therapist interprets the symbolic meaning of the client’s dreams

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Dream analysis

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In psychotherapy, drawing ideas from two or more systems of therapy instead of committing to just one system

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Eclecticism

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A biomedical treatment in which electric shock is used to produce a cortical seizure accompanied by convulsions

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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A psychoanalytic technique in which clients spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings exactly as they occur with as little censorship as possible

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Free association

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A psychological disorder marked by a chronic, high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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The simultaneous treatment of several clients in a group

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Group therapy

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The degree of disparity between one’s self-concept and one’s actual experience

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Incongruence

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Psychotherapy methods characterized by verbal interactions intended to enhance clients’ self-knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior

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Insight therapies

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In psychoanalysis, the therapist’s attempts to explain the inner significance of the client’s thoughts, feelings, memories, and behaviors

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Interpretation

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A chemical used to control mood swings in patients with bipolar mood disorders

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Lithium

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Mood disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure

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Major depressive disorder

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A medical institution specializing in providing inpatient care for psychological disorders

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Mental hospital

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The fact that subjects’ expectations can lead them to experience some change even though they receive an empty, fake, or ineffectual treatment

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Placebo effects

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Physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders

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Psychiatrists

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An insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses through techniques such as free association and transference

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Psychoanalysis

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The treatment of mental disorders with medication

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Psychopharmacotheraphy

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An approach to therapy that focuses on altering clients’ patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive emotions and behavior

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Rational-emotive therapy

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Effect that occurs when people who score extremely high or low on some trait are measured a second time and their new score falls closer to the mean

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Regression toward the mean

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A process in which neurotransmitters are sponged up from the synaptic cleft by the presynaptic membrane

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Reuptake

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A collection of beliefs about one’s own nature, unique qualities, and typical behavior

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Self-concept

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the reinforcement of closer and closer approximations of a desired response

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Shaping

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The branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced

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Social psychology

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A behavior therapy used to reduce clients’ anxiety responses through counterconditioning

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Systematic desensitization

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A neurological disorder marked by chronic tremors and involuntary spastic movements

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Tardive dyskinesia

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A behavior therapy designed to improve interpersonal skills that emphasizes shaping, modeling, and behavioral rehearsal

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Social skills training

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In therapy, the phenomenon that occurs when clients start relating to their therapists in ways that mimic critical relationships in their lives

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Transference

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An unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning

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Unconditioned response

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A stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning

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Unconditioned stimulus

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Recovery from a disorder without formal treatment

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Spontaneous remission

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