Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password

Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Abnormal Psychology Clinical and Scientific Perspective by Lyons and Martin

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Question
Answer
show In psychoanalytic theory , that part of the mind outside of conscious awareness, containing hidden instincts, impulses, and memories  
🗑
show In Freudian theory, the erotic attachment to opposite-sex parent, involving feelings of competition and hostility toward same-sex parent, and fears of retaliation(castration anxiety in boys) from the same-sex parent.  
🗑
show In Freudian theory, strategies whereby a person avoids anxiety-arousing experiences  
🗑
show Defense Mechanism in which the anxiety-arousing memory or impulse is prevented form becoming conscious  
🗑
show Defense mechanism in which a person behaves in a way directly opposite form some underlying impulse.  
🗑
Isolation   show
🗑
show Defense mechanism in which the person shifts a reaction from some original target person or situation (e.g. anger displaced from boss to family)  
🗑
show Defense mechanism in which the person disowns some impulse and attributes it to another person  
🗑
show Refers to unobservable mental events such as ideas, wishes, and unconscious.  
🗑
show In Freudian theory, that part of the mind form which instinctual impulses originate  
🗑
show In Freudian theory, that part of the mind that mediates between id impulses and external reality  
🗑
superego   show
🗑
libido   show
🗑
Fixations   show
🗑
Regressions   show
🗑
show Strong, irrational fear of some specific object, animal, or situation.  
🗑
show Basic procedure in psychoanalysis in which the patient is asked to say whatever comes to mind without censorship  
🗑
show In psychoanalysis, the phenomenon in which patients unconsciously resist gaining insight into unconscious motives and conflicts.  
🗑
Transference   show
🗑
Behaviorism   show
🗑
show Consequence following a response that increases the likelihood that, in the same situation, the response will be repeated in the future.  
🗑
show Events, usually biological in nature, that almost always provide reinforcement, such as eating when hungry; primary reinforcers do not acquire their reinforcing properties through learning.  
🗑
Punishers   show
🗑
Positive Reinforcement   show
🗑
show The contingent removal of a unpleasant stimulus, which strengthens subsequent responding  
🗑
show A stimulus that serves as a signal that a certain response will lead to a reinforcement  
🗑
show Experimental design in which new reinforcement contingencies are instated for a period of time, followed by reinstatement of the old reinforcement contingencies, and finally the installment of the original, new contingencies; sometimes a fourth reversal i  
🗑
Modeling   show
🗑
Systematic Desensitization   show
🗑
show Form of behavior therapy in which the person is asked to imagine an upsetting scene in order to produce a form of aversion conditioning.  
🗑
show In human cells, there are 23 pairs of chromosomes, elongated bodies that carry genetic information.  
🗑
show Units of hereditary information carried in a chromosome by DNA  
🗑
show Total set of inherited characteristics determined by a person's genetic makeup  
🗑
show Observed characteristics that result from the interaction between genotype and environmental influences  
🗑
Identical or monozygotic(MZ) twins   show
🗑
Fraternal or dizygotic (DZ) twins   show
🗑
show Rare form of mental retardation caused by error in protein metabolism, recessively inherited  
🗑
Neurons   show
🗑
Dendrites   show
🗑
Axon   show
🗑
show A tiny gap separating neurons, across which chemical communication between cells can occur  
🗑
Neurotransmitters   show
🗑
Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT   show
🗑
Psychosurgery   show
🗑
show Proposed that the disorder was caused by excessive dopamine activity in the brain (Hence, DA-blocking drugs like Thorazine were useful.)  
🗑
show Proposed that the mood disorder resulted from a relative depletion of NE in the brain(Hence-MAO-I drugs were useful because they enhanced NE activity.)  
🗑
Tardive dyskinesia   show
🗑
show Emphasis on viewing people as whole human beings rather than analyzing them in an impersonal fashion  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: apontep
Popular Psychology sets