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Psychology Exam 6
Chp 15 and 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Psychotherapy | Techniques to improve psychological functioning and promote adjustment to life |
| Person-centered therapy | Carl Rogers/ client comes first |
| Gestalt Therapy | Fritz Perls/ experiential therapy, integrates body and mind |
| Cognitive-Behavior Therapy | Albert Elis/ very interactive, focus on thought process |
| Cognitive Therapy | therapy that treats problem behaviors and mental processes by focusing on faulty thought processes and beliefs |
| self talk | internal dialogue |
| cognitive restructuring | process in cognitive therapy to change destructive thoughts or inappropriate interpretations |
| cognitive-behavior therapy | combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy |
| Rational-Emotion Behavior Therapy | (REBT) musterbation, should-ing all over yourself |
| Beck's Cognitive Therapy | Distorted thinking patterns/ effective for for depression, anxiety, bulimia, etc/ criticisms: ignoring unconscious processes, emphasizes on rationality |
| Humanistic Therapy | Focuses on removing obstacles that block personal growth/ client-centered therapy/ criticism: core concepts are difficult to empirically test |
| Therapeutic Qualities of Communication | Empathy, unconditional positive regard, genuineness, active listening |
| Group, Family, and Marital Therapies | group therapy, self-help group, family and marital therapy |
| group therapy | a number of people meet together to work toward therapeutic goals/ less expensive, group support, behavior rehearsal |
| self-help group | leaderless or nonprofessionally guided groups in which members assist one another with a specific problem |
| family and marital therapies | goal is to change maladaptive family interaction patterns |
| Behavior Therapy | group of techniques based on learning principles used to change maladaptive behaviors/ operant conditioning, observational learning/ phobias, OCD - ethics related to control |
| Biomedical therapy | using biological interventions to treat psychological disorders |
| Psychopharmacology | study of drug effects on brain and behavior/ antianxiety, antipsychotic, mood stabilizer, antidepressant |
| ECT | biomedical therapy based on passing electrical current through the brain/ used almost exclusively to treat serious depression when drug therapy fails |
| Psychosurgery | surgical alteration of the brain to bring about desirable behavior, cognitive, or emotional changes |
| Eclectic Approach | combining techniques from various theories to find the most appropriate treatment |
| Clinical psychologist | Ph. D of philosophy or psychology |
| Psychiatrist | doctor of medicine |
| Psychiatric Nurse | M.A. extra extent in psychology |
| Social Psychology | study of how others influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions |
| Atribution | how we explain our own and others' actions |
| Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) | attributing peoples' behavior to internal causes rather than external factors |
| Just-World Phenomenon | Tendency to believe that people generally get what they deserve |
| Self-Serving bias | taking credit for out successes and externalizing our failures |
| Attitude | learned predisposition to respond cognitively, affectively, and behaviorally to a particular object |
| Cognitive Dissonance | unpleasant tension and anxiety caused by a discrepancy between an attitude and a behavior |
| Festinger and Carlsmith | people getting paid $1--> high levels of CD/ $20--> low levels of CD |
| Prejudice | a learned, generally negative, attitude toward members of a group |
| stereotype | set of beliefs about the characteristics of people in a group that is generalized to all group members |
| discrimination | negative behaviors directed at members of a group |
| Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love | intimacy, passion, commitment |
| Milgram's Studies of Obedience | legitimacy and closeness, remoteness of victim, assignment of responsibility, modeling |
| Altruism | actions designed to help others with now obvious benefit to helper/ evolutionary, egotistic, empathy |
| Zimbardo | study how behavior is influenced by situation/ prisoners |
| Asch Experiment | social influence= conformity and obedience |
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