Semester Final Flashcards
The sociocultural perspective looks at…
race, culture, and ethnicity
Freud reffered to the dynamic of a patient developing either positive or negative feelings towards their therapist as…
transference
Psychotherapy techniques include…
Play therapy, behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and humanistic therapy
in medieval times, explanations for those who were mentally ill were thought to be all of the following EXCEPT
an inspired god
The diathesis-stress model presumes that psychopathology results from
vunerability and adverse experiences
Another term for the percentage of people in the us who currently have a diagnosis of depression is
Prevalence
Which of the following is NOT included in DSM-5
Cause of disorders
A study based on over 9,000 US residents found that the most prevalent disorder was
Major depressive disorder
patterns of inner experience and behavior are thought to reflect the presence of a psychological disorder if they
lead to significant distress and impairment in ones life
how does positive affect differ from optimism
Positive affect involves feeling states; optimism involves expectations
relative to those with low levels of social support, individuals with high levels of social support
tend to tolerate stress well
the most lethal dimension of Type A behavior pattern seems to be
hostility
which of the following is NOT a dimension of job burnout
Hostility
what is one major criticisms of the Social Readjustment Rating Scale
it does not take into consideration how a person appraises an event
According to the holmes and rahe scale, which life event requires the greatest amount of readjustment?
death of spouse
At which stage of Selyes general adaptation syndrome is a person especially vunerable to illness
exhaustion
Between 2006 and 2009, the greatest increases in stress levels were found to occur amoung
those aged 45-64
Negative effects of stress are most likely to be experienced when an event is perceived as
threatening, and no clear options for dealing with it are apparent
according to the Eysenck’s theory, people who score high on neuroticism tend to be
Anxious
___ is credited with the first comprehensive theory of personality
Freud
The id operates _____ principle
pleasure
Personality is thought to be
long term, stable and not easily changed
when we seek out information that supports our stereotypes, we are engaged in
confirmation bias
__ is an negative unfair attitude towards a member of a group; __ is negative, unfair behavior toward members of a group
Prejudice; discrimination
Attitudes describe our __ of people, objects, and ideas
Evaluations
A(n)___ is a set of group expectations for appropriate thoughts an behaviors of its members
social norm
Making internal attributions for your successes and naking external attributions for your failures is an example of ____
self serving bias
According to the constructivist theory of emotions proposed by Barett, emotions are
predictions that are constructed based on your experience
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: which accurately describes the relationship between the levels of needs in the pyramid
Lower level needs must be satisfied before addressing higher level needs
william james proposed that behavior was primarily driven by:
A number of instincts that aid survival
Need for___ refers to maintaining positive relationships with others
Affiliation
___ is/are an individual’s belief in her capability to complete some task
self-efficacy
For the following statement, determine if it shows intrinsic or extrinsic motivation. You want good grades
Extrinsic
For the following statement, determine if it shows intrinsic or extrinsic motivation. You love learning
Intrinsic
In the CHC theory of cognitive abilities, which is characterized by specific skills and knowledge to particular tasks
narrow abilities
In Gardners Multiple Intelligences Theory, which is one of the intelligences recognized as a distinct type
Emotional intelligence
What is an event schema, also known as a cognitive script, in psychology
A mental construct consisting of a cluster of related topics
what is a prototype in the context of cognitive therapy
The best example or representation of a concept
What are concepts in psychology
Categories/groups of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories
what does the term “cognition” encompass in the field of psychology
The study of thinking and related mind processes
