Psychology Final Questions
an eating disorder in which the individual refuses to maintain a minimally normal body weight, is extremely afraid of gaining weight or becoming fat, and has a distorted perception about the size of his or her body.
Anorexia Nervosa
holds an academic doctorate and has had extensive training in psychological testing and evaluation, psychotherapy, and the prevention of mental and emotional disorders
Clinical psychologist
Behavioral and cognitive responses used to deal with stressors; involves efforts to change circumstances, or our interpretation of them to make them more favorable and less threatening
Coping
everyday, minor events that annoy and upset people
Daily life hassles
the phenomenon in which the presence of other people makes it less likely that any individual will help someone in distress because the obligation to intervene is shared among all the onlookers
Diffusion of Responsibility
While eating at a restaurant, you see a waiter's serving tray tilt and an avalanche of food and beverages splatters on four people. "What a careless, clumsy idiot," you mumble to yourself as you resume eating. You have just committed
Fundamental attribution error
uses the biopsychosocial model to guide her research into how psychological factors influence health, illness, and treatment
Health Psychologist
The part of the brain that plays a key role in forming new memories
Hippocampus
People are basically good and that each person will naturally strive to fulfill his or her unique potential
Humanistic Perspective of Personality
Lynn has just received a research grant to study the effect of downsizing on morale at a large computer company. Lynn is most likely a(n) _____ psychologist
Industrial/Organizational Psychologist
Doug has become progressively more energetic and euphoric. He has been sleeping no more than an hour or two per night, but he seems to have unlimited energy. Doug is inappropriately self-confident
Manic episode
A sleep disorder characterized by overwhelming bouts of excessive daytime sleepiness and brief uncontrollable episodes of sleep is called:
Narcolepsy
Your unique and relatively consistent pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
Personality
A person who holds a medical degree and may prescribe medications, electroconvulsive therapy, and other medical procedures in treating mental and emotional disorders.
Psychiatrist
Unconscious mental processes and early childhood experiences are critical in the formation of personality
Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
The perspective of psychology emphasizes the importance of unconscious influences and early life experiences in explaining the underlying dynamics of behavior
Psychodynamic perspective
the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Psychology
Howard explained the low evaluation he received on his job performance review by saying that his boss was a jerk and had it in for him. Howard appears to be engaging in
Self serving bias
Antidepressant medications are often used in the treatment of major depression. In general, these medications work by increasing brain levels of what type of neurotransmitters:
Serotonin and Norepinephrine
The branch of psychology that studies how people think, feel, and behave in social situations is called
Social Psychology
The tendency to expend less effort on a task when it is a group effort.
Social loafing
a negative emotional state occurring in response to events that are perceived as taxing or exceeding a person's resources or ability to cope
Stress
Your sense of conscience corresponds to this structure of personality in Freud's theory
Superego
Personality has: time urgency intense ambition and competitiveness general hostility
Type A Personality
more easygoing not associated with heart disease
Type B Personality
Four-year-old Brooke throws a tantrum when her parents want to leave the playground and go home. Brooke's parents patiently and lovingly try to teach Brooke a more acceptable way of coping with disappointment and frustration. Carl Rogers's terminology
Unconditional Positive Regard
