Terms For Test

Question 1

Affect

Answer 1

A person’s affect is the expression of emotion or feelings displayed to others through facial expressions, hand gestures, voice tone, and other emotional signs such as laughter or tears.

Question 2

Apathy

Answer 2

can be defined as an absence or suppression of emotion, feeling, concern or passion. Apathy is an indifference to things generally found to be exciting or moving.

Question 3

Ego

Answer 3

is that portion of the personality that imposes realistic limitations on the id.

Question 4

Id

Answer 4

The id is the part of the personality that includes such basic biological impulses or drives as eating, drinking, eliminating wastes, avoiding pain, attaining sexual pleasure, and aggression. The id operates on the “pleasure principle,” seeking to satisfy these basic urges immediately with no regard to consequence

Question 5

Superego

Answer 5

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the human personality that represents a person’s inner values and morals; also known as conscience.

Question 6

Self-esteem

Answer 6

an important component of emotional health, self-esteem encompasses both self-confidence and self-acceptance.

Question 7

Emapthy

Answer 7

The capacity to vicariously experience and understand the thoughts and feelings of another person by putting oneself in that person’s place.

Question 8

Mania

Answer 8

A description of the condition opposite depression in manic-depressive psychosis, or bipolar disorder. It is characterized by a mood of elation without apparent reason.

Question 9

Mental imagery

Answer 9

A picture created by the imagination with no visual stimulus required.

Question 10

Depression

Answer 10

is the general name for a family of illnesses known as depressive disorders. As an illness, depression can affect not only the personal mood and internal thoughts of a person, but also the outwardly physical functions of affected individuals.

Question 11

Depression

Answer 11

is the general name for a family of illnesses known as depressive disorders. As an illness, depression can affect not only the personal mood and internal thoughts of a person, but also the outwardly physical functions of affected individuals.

Question 12

Behavioral therapy

Answer 12

is an empirically based psychological treatment approach founded on the principles of operant conditioning. The goal is to replace undesirable behaviors with more desirable ones through positive or negative reinforcement of adaptive behavior.

Question 13

Behavioral therapy

Answer 13

is an empirically based psychological treatment approach founded on the principles of operant conditioning. The goal is to replace undesirable behaviors with more desirable ones through positive or negative reinforcement of adaptive behavior.