VOCAB QUIZ TERMS TOPIC 12-13

Question 1

Learned helplessness

Answer 1

the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.

Question 2

Generalized anxiety disorder

Answer 2

an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal.

Question 3

Specific phobia

Answer 3

intense, irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger

Question 4

anti-social personality disorder

Answer 4

a personality disorder in which a person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist.

Question 5

Paranoid personality disorder

Answer 5

mental health condition marked by a pattern of distrust and suspicion of others without adequate reason to be suspicious

Question 6

obsessive compulsive disorder

Answer 6

disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions).

Question 7

anxiety disorders

Answer 7

psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.

Question 8

DSM-V

Answer 8

a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.

Question 9

catatonia

Answer 9

abnormality of movement and behavior arising from a disturbed mental state

Question 10

dissociative identity disorder

Answer 10

person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.

Question 11

seasonal affective disorder

Answer 11

depression associated with late autumn and winter and thought to be caused by a lack of light.

Question 12

bipolar disorder

Answer 12

a mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the
overexcited state of mania.

Question 13

schizophrenia

Answer 13

characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished or inappropriate emotional expression.

Question 14

hallucinations

Answer 14

false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus.

Question 15

conversion disorder

Answer 15

person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found.

Question 16

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Answer 16

haunting memories, nightmares,
social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety,
numbness of feeling, and/or
insomnia that lingers for four weeks
or more after a traumatic experience.

Question 17

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Answer 17

our thinking
influences our feelings, and that the therapist’s role is to
change clients’ self-defeating thinking by training them to
view themselves in more positive ways.

Question 18

Psychopharmacology

Answer 18

study
of the effects of drugs on mind and
behavior.

Question 19

Electroconvulsive therapy

Answer 19

biomedical therapy for severely
depressed patients in which a brief
electric current is sent through the
brain of an anesthetized patient.

Question 20

Behaviorist therapies

Answer 20

change an individual’s maladaptive responses to specific situations

Question 21

anorexia nervosa

Answer 21

eating
disorder in which a person (usually
an adolescent female) maintains
a starvation diet despite being
significantly (15 percent or more)
underweight.

Question 22

bulimia nervosa

Answer 22

eating
disorder in which a person
alternates binge eating (usually of
high-calorie foods) with purging (by
vomiting or laxative use), excessive
exercise, or fasting.

Question 23

group therapy

Answer 23

therapy conducted
with groups rather than individuals,
permitting therapeutic benefits
from group interaction.

Question 24

transference

Answer 24

the patient’s transfer to the analyst
of emotions linked with other
relationships (such as love or hatred
for a parent).

Question 25

psychiatrists

Answer 25

physicians
who sometimes provide medical
(for example, drug) treatments as
well as psychological therapy.

Question 26

systematic desensitization

Answer 26

type of exposure therapy that
associates a pleasant, relaxed state

with gradually increasing anxiety-
triggering stimuli. Commonly used

to treat phobias.

Question 27

autism spectrum disorder

Answer 27

disorder that appears
in childhood and is marked by significant deficiencies in
communication and social interaction, and by rigidly fixated
interests and repetitive behaviors.

Question 28

free association

Answer 28

method of exploring the

unconscious in which the person
relaxes and says whatever comes
to mind, no matter how trivial or
embarrassing.

Question 29

client-centered therapy

Answer 29

humanistic therapy, developed
by Carl Rogers, in which the
therapist uses techniques such as
active listening within a genuine,
accepting, empathic environment to
facilitate clients’ growth.