AP Psych Unit 13 Flashcards

6283913154	eclectic approach	An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy	0
6283911842	psychotherapy	Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth	1
6283927568	resistance	in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material.	2
6283918199	interpretation	in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.	3
6283925583	psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences released previously repressed feelings allowing the patient to gain self-insight	4
6283925582	transference	in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships	5
6283933503	psychodynamic therapies	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
6283913155	insight therapies	a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses	7
6283924221	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	8
6283922207	active listening	empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy	9
6283925581	unconditional positive regard	a caring accepting nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance	10
6283910550	aversive conditioning	a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol.	11
6283918198	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
6283929434	exposure therapies	behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid	13
6283927569	systematic desentsitization	a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. commonly used to treat phobias	14
6283920720	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
6283911841	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	16
6283920719	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
6283914643	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
6283918197	cognitive-behavioral therapy	a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy(changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)	19
6283922206	behavioral therapy	therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors	20
6284621369	regression toward the mean	the tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average	21
6284618693	meta-analysis	a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies	22
6284622919	evidence-based practice	clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences	23
6284618694	psychosurgery	surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior	24
6284627985	psychopharmacology	the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior	25
6284626516	antipsychotic drugs	drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder	26
6284621370	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
6284627984	antianxiety drugs	drugs used to control anxiety and agitation	28
6284629209	antidepressant drugs	drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters	29
6284624997	electroconvulsive therapy	a biochemical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient	30
6284635082	repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation	the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity	31
6284618695	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	32
6284620250	biomedical therapy	prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system	33
6284626517	resilience	the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma	34
9107520231	Aaron Beck	cognitive therapist who sought to reverse clients' catastrophizing beliefs about themselves, their situations, and their futures	35
9107520232	Dorothea Dix	worked in the transition from brutal to gentler treatments of mental patients, advocated mental hospitals to offer more humane methods of treatment	36
9107524243	Mary Cover Jones	Came up with a counter-conditioning therapy to replace Peter's fear of rabbits with him liking the rabbit	37
9107524244	Benjamin Rush	Designed a chair "for the benefit of maniacal patients". He believed the restraints would help them regain their sensibilities	38
9107527328	Joseph Wolpe	psychologist who refined Jones' counter-conditioning therapy into one of the most widely used therapies today...exposure therapy	39