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PSYCH FINAL EXAM P1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This "Dilemma" explains why it makes sense for partners to betray one another if they can't trust each other. | The Prisoner's Dilemma |
| The tragic death of Kitty Genovese sparked interest among psychologists in order to better understand this effect. | Bystander Effect (or Diffusion of Responsibility) |
| If a group event causes its members to believe in their opinions even more strongly after the event, then the group has experienced this | Group Polarization |
| This "type" of love tends to start slowly in a relationship, but it continues to build over time. | Companionate Love |
| This hormone can make it more difficult to detect signs of anger or frustration in others, potentially leading to an increased chance for aggressive behavior to occur. | Testosterone |
| This "error" says that most individuals have a tendency to explain their own behavior with situational attributions, but others' behavior with dispositional attributions. | The Fundamental Attribution Error |
| This man demonstrated that a majority of study participants would obey a perceived authority, even if they thought it meant that they were electrocuting someone else. | Stanley Milgram |
| In contrast to systematic persuasion, this form of persuasion tries to change a person's beliefs by appealing to their habits or emotions. | Heuristic Persuasion |
| This can help explain why people sometimes smile unconsciously when they see someone else smiling at them. | Chameleon Effect (or automatic mimicry) |
| According to this theory, changing your attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors so that your actions fit better with your beliefs can help reduce anxiety. | Cognitive Dissonance Theory |
| Psychologists published this book to help standardize the classification and diagnosis of mental disorders. | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) |
| Treating mental disorders in the same way doctors would diagnose physical illnesses refers to this model of diagnosis. | Medical Model |
| This term refers to the negative associations and assumptions people often have towards those with mental illnesses. | Stigmas |
| When an individual is diagnosed with more than one disorder at the same time, those disorders are said to be this. | Comorbid |
| According to this model, individuals often possess biological predispositions which are triggered by stress when an individual develops a disorder. | Diathesis-Stress Model |
| This anxiety disorder is diagnosed when an individual suffers from repeated panic attacks. | Panic Disorder |
| For individuals with OCD, this term refers to a powerful urge to carry out a specific behavior in order to reduce anxiety. | Compulsion |
| "Eccentric/Odd", "Dramatic/Erratic", and "Anxious" refer to the three clusters of these disorders. | Personality Disorders |
| Mania and major depression are the two mood extremes of this disorder. | Bipolar Disorder |
| This type of schizophrenia is often associated with hallucinations and delusions, which are often negative and cause someone to feel threatened or persecuted by others. | Paranoid Schizophrenia |
| Freud founded this form of therapy, which became a gold-standard for the treatment of the mentally ill. | Psychoanalysis |
| This approach to therapy believes that symptoms are simply bad habits or learned behaviors which can counter-conditioned (or re-trained) in order to treat a disorder. | Behavioral Therapy |
| This form relies on Maslow's hierarchy and Rogers' client-centered approach in order to help clients achieve growth and live up to their own inherent potential in life. | Humanistic Therapy |
| This approach combines two other schools of thought in order to create a therapy which relies on changing beliefs and behaviors in order to treat disorders. | Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| This type of therapy, known for social simulations such as the "chair technique", focused on living in the present and accepting responsibility for life choices. | Existentialist (or Gestalt) Therapy |
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