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PSYC Final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Traditional treatment of psychological disorders | Chaining patients; beating; castration |
| DMS-TR-5 | Basis of classifying psychological disorders |
| 68% | People in the population with a normal range of behavior |
| Unconditional positive regard | Main feature of humanistic therapy |
| Eclectic approach of therapy | Blend of many therapies |
| psychoanalysis | It believes that issues arise from repressed childhood impulses & conflicts |
| Dopamine, Serotonin, Endorphins | Feel-good hormones |
| Behavior therapies | Problem behaviors are learned |
| Patient's projection of positive feelings | Positive transference |
| Medical treatment of psychological disorders | Blood of many therapies |
| Cognitive Therapy | Effective in helping depressed people think positively about themselves & their circumstances |
| Psychoanalytic Therapy | Addresses thoughts, desires & impulses repressed in the unconscious |
| Mens sana in corpore sano | A sound/health mind in a sound/healthy body |
| Depression | Most pervasive psychological disorder |
| Biopsychosocial therapy of treating psychological disorders | 21st century approach |
| Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) | Most diffcult to treat among mood disorders |
| Delusion of grandeur | Manic episode |
| Most active during positive emotions | Prefrontal cortex |
| Delusion of persecution | Suicidal ideation |
| Schizophrenia | Literally means "split mind" |
| Dissociative identity Disorder (DID) | Multiple personality disorder |
| Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | Characterized by hypervigilance, nightmares, haunting thoughts, etc. due to trauma |
| Panic Disorder | Sudden periods of intense fear may lead to unexpected panic attacks |
| Phobia | Persistent, irrational, and excessive fear of a specific situation, object or animal |
| Anorexia Nervosa | Keeping weight as low as possible by not eating |
| Binge eating disorder | "Eating like no tomorrow" |
| Hemophobia | Fear blood |
| Post-Traumatic Growth | A positive psychological transformation that an happen after trauma. |
| fMRI/functional magnetic resonance imaging | An effective way of scanning the brains of those suffering from psychological disorders. |
| Involvement of the family | Family/Group Therapy |
| Free Association | Main technique used in psychoanalysis |
| Active Listening | Main method used in humanistic therapies |
| Systematic Desensitization | Used to treat phobias employing exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state w/ gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli |
| Resistance | In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of unpleasant or anxiety- laden material |
| Transference | In Psychoanalysis, a patient's transfer of positive or negative emotions to the analyst |
| Cortisol | Secreted when under stress |
| Oxytocin | The "Love" drug |
| Dopamine | Too much of this may lead a patient to hear "voices in ym head" |
| Virtual Reality exposure therapy | A counterconditioning technique that treats anxiety thru' creative electronic simulations in which people can safely face fears |
| Token economy | An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token for exhibiting a desired behavior |
| Aversive conditioning | Associates an unpleasant state (nausea) with unwanted behavior (drinking alcohol) |
| Counterconditioning | Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors (including exposure therapies and aversive conditioning) |
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Nicholashatten