Advanced Placement Psychology
Enterprise High School, Redding, CA
All terms from Myers Psychology for AP (BFW Worth, 2011)
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| 6633622339 | eclectic approach | an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy. |  | 0 |
| 6633622340 | psychotherapy | treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth. |  | 1 |
| 6633622341 | psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences—and the therapist's interpretations of them—released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight. |  | 2 |
| 6633622342 | resistance | in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. |  | 3 |
| 6633622343 | interpretation | in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight. |  | 4 |
| 6633622344 | transference | in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent). |  | 5 |
| 6633622345 | psychodynamic therapy | therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight. |  | 6 |
| 6633622346 | insight therapy | a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses. |  | 7 |
| 6633622347 | client-centered therapy | a 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. (Also called person-centered therapy.) |  | 8 |
| 6633622348 | active listening | empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy. |  | 9 |
| 6633622349 | unconditional positive regard | a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance. |  | 10 |
| 6633622350 | behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors. |  | 11 |
| 6633622351 | counterconditioning | a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning. |  | 12 |
| 6633622352 | exposure therapy | behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid. |  | 13 |
| 6633622353 | systematic desensitization | a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias. |  | 14 |
| 6633622354 | virtual reality exposure therapy | An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking. |  | 15 |
| 6633622355 | aversive conditioning | a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol). |  | 16 |
| 6633622356 | token economy | an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats. |  | 17 |
| 6633622357 | cognitive therapy | therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions. |  | 18 |
| 6633622358 | cognitive-behavioral therapy | a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior). |  | 19 |
| 6633622359 | family therapy | therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members. |  | 20 |
| 6633622360 | regression toward the mean | the tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average. |  | 21 |
| 6633622361 | meta-analysis | a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies. |  | 22 |
| 6633622362 | evidence-based practice | clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences. |  | 23 |
| 6633622363 | biomedical therapy | prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system. |  | 24 |
| 6633622364 | psychopharmacology | the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior |  | 25 |
| 6633622365 | antipsychotic drugs | drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder |  | 26 |
| 6633622366 | tardive dyskinesia | involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors |  | 27 |
| 6633622367 | antianxiety drugs | drugs used to control anxiety and agitation |  | 28 |
| 6633622368 | antidepressant drugs | drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters |  | 29 |
| 6633622369 | electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) | a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient |  | 30 |
| 6633622370 | repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) | the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity |  | 31 |
| 6633622371 | psychosurgery | surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior |  | 32 |
| 6633622372 | lobotomy | a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain |  | 33 |
| 6633622373 | resilience | the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma |  | 34 |
