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PSYCH FINAL EXAM P2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This term refers to treating a mental disorder using talk and conversation between a client and a therapist to initiate change. | Psychotherapy |
| This alternative form of therapy treats a relationship between two individuals as the "client", resulting in fair and equal treatment of both parties. | Couples Therapy |
| When a therapist uses techniques from many different schools of psychology, they are typically referred to by this term with regards to their orientation. | Eclectic |
| This form of therapy, which allows clients to "face their fears", is often the best form of treatment for phobias. | Exposure Therapy |
| Sigmund Freud believed that the best way to reduce symptoms in patients was to promote this. | Insight |
| This aspect of a drug represents the biggest down-side to the use of psychiatric medications in the treatment of mental disorders. | Side Effects |
| This form of treatment, which has become much more humane since its first use, involves passing an electrical current through a disordered individual's brain. | Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) |
| An individual suffering from schizophrenia would most likely be prescribed this class of psychiatric medication. | Antipsychotics |
| Rather than treating a depressed bipolar patient with just an antidepressant, doctors will typically prescribe this type of drug as well, in order to prevent mania. | Mood Stabilizers |
| Lobotomies, Hemispherectomies, and cutting the Corpus Callossum are all types of this biological intervention - an extreme measure used as a last resort. | Psychosurgery |
| This patient has a strong, irrational fear of heights which prevents them from riding in airplanes. | Phobic Disorder |
| This patient was beaten up in a bar fight, and now the patient seems easily agitated and complains of "flashbacks". | Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) |
| This patient is a chronic worrier, and never seems to be able to calm down, although they can't figure out why they're worried. | Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) |
| This patient experiences a compulsion to binge-eat followed by another compulsion to purge afterwards. | Bulimia Nervosa |
| This patient has frequent mood swings, ranging from mildly depressed to hypomanic. | Cyclothymic Disorder (Cyclothymia) |
| This experiment randomly assigned a group of male students to the role of either prisoner or guard in order to see how it would affect behavior - an experiment which had to be ended early out of safety concerns. | Stanford Prison Experiment |
| This term refers to changing your own behavior in order to better fit in with the people around you | Conformity |
| This term refers to the tendency for individual to believe that all members of a group are alike. | Stereotyping |
| When a person believes that the world is a just and fair place, and most people tend to get what they deserve, they may be making this error. | Just-World Fallacy |
| According to this technique, asking for a small, easily granted favor first and then following it up with a larger request can make the larger request more likely to be granted as well. | Foot-in-the-Door Technique |
| When a drug fits into a receptor site without activating it, it is said to be this type. | Antagonist |
| Ivan Pavlov used this term to refer to his ability to train dogs to salivate only to specific bell tones, but not to others. | Discrimination |
| This personality trait - one of the "Big Five" - is associated with flexibility and a desire for novel (new) experiences. | Openness |
| This parenting style is sometimes seen as the "best" style by western civilizations - at least in terms of its typical outcomes for children of parents who use this style. | Authoritative Parenting |
| The "Fight or Flight" response is associated with this branch of the nervous system. | Sympathetic Nervous System |
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