U8 Test Review Flashcards
What type of depression occurs in the winter?
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
What type of disorder is SAD?
Mood disorder
What is the treatment for SAD?
Light exposure therapy
Which therapy involves rapidly moving your finger in front of the patient’s eyes?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
What is it called when you look at many journals on the same topic and draw conclusions from them?
Meta-analysis
What is it called when therapists use multiple therapies to help patients?
Eclectic approach
What is it called when a patient believes a therapy will work, even when it wasn’t effective on its own?
Placebo effect
What describes mentally strong people who can cope with traumatic experiences?
Resilient
Which therapy involves the therapist challenging the patient’s irrational beliefs?
Rational emotive therapy
Ms. Connors gives stickers for participation. What is she doing?
Behavior modification
Which therapy treats irrational fears?
Exposure therapy
What is an example of exposure therapy?
Systematic desensitization
What is counter conditioning?
Condition a new response to stressful stimuli
What are the types of counter conditioning?
Exposure, aversive
What is aversive conditioning?
Teach people to dislike stimulus
The intervention for bed wetting is which type of therapy?
Classical conditioning (behavioral)
Which therapy did Carl Rogers found?
Client centered therapy
Which type of therapy involves interpreting dreams?
Psychoanalytic
What field is the study of the effect of drugs?
Psychopharmacology
What did Freud call our tendency to not think about anxiety arousing thoughts?
Resistance
What is it called when patient’s are reminded of past relationships and treat the therapist in that way?
Transference
What is it called when therapists project issues from past relationships onto patients?
Countertransference
What is the goal of psychoanalytic therapy?
Reveal unconscious
People with antisocial personality disorder have less activity in their _______.
Frontal lobes
A ________ involves inserting an instrument through the eye socket and into the brain.
Trephination
Lobotomy
What is a personality disorder?
Inflexible, enduring patterns of behavior that impair social functioning
What type of drug blocks dopamine?
Antipsychotics
What do you call a chemical that can block the activity of neurotransmitters?
Antagonist
Which disorder do you have if you exhibit more than one personality?
DID (dissociative identity disorder)
What is dissociation
Separated from your consciousness, feeling outside of your body/unreal
What are the negative and positive symptoms?
Negative: absence of normal behaviors
Positive: additional abnormal behaviors
What do SSRIs treat?
Depression
What does SSRI stand for?
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
Which drug depresses central nervous system activity?
Anti-anxiety
How do anti-anxiety drugs work?
Increase GABA
Virtual reality is a form of?
Exposure therapy
Which disorder do you have if you exhibit extreme depression and mania?
Bipolar
What is a common treatment for bipolar disorder?
Lithium
Which disorder involves your mental state affecting your physical state?
Somatic symptom disorder
What did Philipe Pinel do?
Argued for better treatment of the mentally ill, created the Medical Model
What is it called when people grow from their traumatic experiences?
Posttraumatic experiences
Prisons use a reward system where you are rewarded for good behavior which can be exchanged for privileges. What is that called?
Token economy
What is psychosurgery?
A last resort, remove/destroy brain tissue to try to fix something
Where does fear leave tracks in the brain?
The amygdala
What is it called when a person’s genes are linked with a disorder? (nature)
Genetic predisposition
What is the way that the environment alters the expression of genes? (nurture)
Epigenetics
What is it called when a child gets bit by a dog and is now scared of all furry animals?
Stimulus generalization
What are some personality disorders?
Antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic, schizoid, dependent…
What is it called when somebody is so repeatedly worried that they left their stove on that they must leave work to go check?
OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder)
What is a compulsion in OCD?
Actions
What is an obsession in OCD?
ThoughtsWh
What is it called when somebody thinks they see their Great Aunt enter the room?
Hallucination
What is it called when somebody believes their dead Great Aunt is still alive?
Delusion
What disorder does someone who is afraid of going outside have?
Agoraphobia
Which therapy involves shocking people under amnesia?
Electroconvulsive therapy
Which disorder does someone experiencing hallucinations and delusions have?
Schizophrenia
Antidepressants elevate which neurotransmitters?
Norepinephrine, serotonin
Which disorder does somebody who is constantly anxious have?
Generalized anxiety disorder
What is a biomedical intervention?
Medication, diet changes, surgery, electroconvulsive therapy
What is insight?
Therapist shows patient how they think, which helps them
What is a disorder describes people who have trouble focusing and are fidgety have?
ADHD
What is a judicial term that describes people with disorders? (not used in therapy/psychology)
Insanity
What does DSM stand for?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders
What does the DSM do?
Helps psychologists diagnose disorders
Which disorder do antipsychotics treat?
Schizophrenia
Which hemisphere of the brain is associated with depression?
Right brain
What dictates a mental illness?
Behavior is maladaptive, distressful, dysfunctional
What is insight?
Sudden understanding of a situation, gut feeling
Negative self talk is treated with which therapy?
Cognitive therapy
