Intro. to Psychology TEST 5
What is the definition of bipolar disorder?
A disease that alternates between hopelessness and over excited state of mania
How is delusion defined?
A false belief of persecution or grandeur that may accompany psychiatric disorders
What provides clients with an explanation for their symptoms?
A new perspectives
What is the definition of a psychological disorder?
A significant disturbance in a person's cognition emotion regulation or behavior
What is one main alternative and preventative measure to taking drugs?
Aerobic Exercise
What type of drugs are being used to treat OCD and PTSD?
Antidepressants
Maladaptive behaviors that reduce worry and fear are most indicative of what type of disorder?
Anxiety disorder
What is the Placebo effect?
Beneficial consequences by expecting a treatment to be effective
What is the DSM-5 designed to do?
Classifies stuff
Schizophrenia is most accurately characterized by what?
Disturbed perceptions and disorganized thinking
What are the major symptoms of ADHD?
Extreme inattention and hyperactivity
What is often an effective mood stabilizing drug?
Lithium
People who have suffered what are most likely to be at risk of suicide.
Major Depressive Disorder
Dysfunctional behaviors are __________________, which means they interfere with normal day to day life
Maladaptive
What type of therapy helps a patient with empathic understanding of subjective experiences?
Person-centered therapies
Who were reformers who started human treatment of psychological disorders?
Phillippe Pinel and Dorothea Dix
What can cause a person to think that they are someone other than themselves?
Schizophrenia
Preventative mental health can be used by parents and teachers to boost what in children?
Self-Esteem
Who introduced the first psychological therapy?
Sigmund Freud
Young teens are most likely to start smoking in order to gain what?
Social acceptance
drugs (such as caffeine, nicotine, and the more powerful amphetamines, cocaine, Ecstasy, and methamphetamine) that excite neural activity and speed up body functions are considered what?
Stimulants
Anorexia nervosa is characterized as a fear of being what?
The fear of being fat
Insight therapies aim to improve psychological functioning by what means?
The increase of a person awareness of underlying motives and defences.
What is resilience?
The personal strength that allows people to cope with stress and recover from adversity and other things idk
What is posttraumatic growth?
The positive psychological changes as a result of strengthening with extremely challenging circumstances and life crisis
What is the definition of a panic disorder?
Unpredictable minties-long episodes of intense dread
What is the double blind procedure research?
When testing a new drug researchers give half of the patients the drug, and both the patient and staff don't know who gets the new drug.
How does biomedical therapy treat serious psychological disorders?
idk dude
What is the major goal of psychodynamic therapy?
to help clients explore and gain perspective on defended-against thoughts and feelings
What is the definition of an obsession?
unwanted repetitive thoughts, and actions or both.
