Psychology Flashcards
Advanced Placement Psychology
Enterprise High School, Redding, CA
All terms from Myers Psychology for AP (BFW Worth, 2011)
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| 5163756540 | psychotherapy | treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth. |  | 0 |
| 5163756541 | psychoanalysis | Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. 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. |  | 1 |
| 5163756542 | resistance | in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. |  | 2 |
| 5163756543 | interpretation | in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight. |  | 3 |
| 5163756544 | transference | A patient's tendency to respond to the analyst or therapist in ways that re-create her responses to major figures in her life. |  | 4 |
| 5163756545 | 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. |  | 5 |
| 5163756546 | unconditional positive regard | a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance. |  | 6 |
| 5163756547 | behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors. |  | 7 |
| 5163756548 | 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. |  | 8 |
| 5163756549 | 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. |  | 9 |
| 5163756550 | systematic desensitization | a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias. |  | 10 |
| 5163756551 | 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. |  | 11 |
| 5163756552 | token economy | A behavioral therapy technique based on operant conditioning in which patients' positive behaviors are reinforced with tokens that they can exchange for desirable items. |  | 12 |
| 5163756553 | cognitive-behavioral therapy | a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior). |  | 13 |
| 5163756554 | Tourettes syndrome | physical and vocal tic |  | 14 |
| 5163756555 | biomedical therapy | prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system. |  | 15 |
| 5163756556 | psychopharmacology | the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior |  | 16 |
| 5163756557 | antianxiety drugs | drugs used to control anxiety and agitation |  | 17 |
| 5163756558 | antidepressant drugs | drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters |  | 18 |
| 5163756559 | eletroconvulsive therapy (ECT) | A somatic treatment, mostly used for cases of severe depression, in which a brief electric current is passed through the brain to produce a convulsive seizure. |  | 19 |
| 5163756560 | psychosurgery | Neurosurgery performed to alleviate manifestations of mental disorders that cannot be alleviated using psychotherapy, medication, or other standard treatments. |  | 20 |
| 5163756561 | subsyndromal disorder | An instance of a mental disorder in which someone does show symptoms, but not at a level of intensity, frequency, or duration that would justify a formal diagnosis. | 21 | |
| 5163756562 | cultural competence | An understanding of how a patient's cultural background shapes his beliefs, values, and expectations for therapy. | 22 | |
| 5163756563 | psychodynamic approaches | Approaches to therapy that are derived from psychoanalytic theory, which asserts that clinical symptoms arise from unconscious conflicts rooted in childhood. | 23 | |
| 5163756564 | interpersonal therapy (IPT) | A form of therapy focused on helping the patient understand how she interacts with others and then learn better ways of interacting and communicating. | 24 | |
| 5163756565 | humanistic approach | An approach to therapy centered around the idea that people must take responsibility for their lives and actions. | 25 | |
| 5163756566 | client-centered therapy | A form of humanistic therapy associated with Carl Rogers, in which the therapist's genuineness, unconditional positive regard, and empathic understanding are crucial to therapeutic success. | 26 | |
| 5163756567 | motivational-enhancement therapy | A brief, non-confrontational, client- centered therapy designed to change specific problematic behaviors such as alcohol or drug use. | 27 | |
| 5163756568 | Gestalt therapy | A form of humanistic therapy associated with Fritz Perls that aims to help the patient integrate inconsistent aspects of herself into a coherent whole by increasing self- awareness and self-acceptance. | 28 | |
| 5163756569 | experiential therapies | A family of therapies that seek to create an empathic and accepting therapeutic atmosphere, while challenging the patient to deepen his experience. | 29 | |
| 5163756570 | contingency management | A form of behavior therapy in which certain behaviors are reliably followed by well-defined consequences. | 30 | |
| 5163756571 | rational emotive behavioral therapy | A form of cognitive therapy associated with Albert Ellis, in which the therapist actively challenges the patient's irrational beliefs. | 31 | |
| 5163756572 | cognitive therapy | An approach to therapy that tries to change some of the patient's habitual modes of thinking about herself, her situation, and her future. | 32 | |
| 5163756573 | cognitive restructuring | A set of cognitive therapy techniques for changing a person's maladaptive beliefs or interpretations through persuasion and confrontation. | 33 | |
| 5163756574 | eclecticism | An approach to treatment that deliberately weaves together multiple types and forms of therapy. | 34 | |
| 5163756575 | psychotropic drugs | Medications that control, or at least moderate, the manifestations of some mental disorders. | 35 | |
| 5163756576 | efficacy | Whether a therapeutic intervention works under carefully controlled conditions. | 36 | |
| 5163756577 | clinical utility | Whether a therapeutic intervention works under real- world conditions. | 37 | |
| 5163762868 | Agoraphobia | Fear of open spaces | 38 | |
| 5163764438 | Bipolar disorder | alternates between mania and depression | 39 | |
| 5163767345 | Pica Disorder | appetite for none nutritional substances such as clay or rocks | 40 | |
| 5163770956 | ADHD | attention issues- acts impulsively | 41 | |
| 5163774103 | Schizophrenia | delusions and hallucinations | 42 | |
| 5163776037 | PTSD | flash backs to traumatic events in earlier life | 43 | |
| 5163779103 | OCD | repeated mental thoughts and behaviors | 44 | |
| 5163780823 | antisocial personality disorder | lack of emotional regard for others | 45 | |
| 5163784176 | anorexia nervosa | starve or exercise themselves to 85% below normal body weight | 46 | |
| 5163787421 | Autism spectrum disorder | social deficits and communication issues | 47 | |
| 5163788493 | hoarding disorder | unwillingness to disgard objects | 48 | |
| 5163792281 | Illness anxiety disorder | formerly hypochondria | 49 |
