Psychology Test 4

___________ is an affection based bond between infants and their primary caregivers that serves to protect infants from threat to their survival

Attachment

Until the age of one, Joel did not babble or point to things, nor did he make proper eye contact. Moreover, her regularly swayed his body and seemed more interested in inanimate objects than his parents. Joel was hardly speaking even at 18 months. Joel is most likely to be diagnosed with _______ disorder course hero

Autism spectrum

_____ therapy entails restructuring thoughts, loosening the clients belief in irrational thoughts that may perpetuate the disorder, and offering incentives for acquiring more adaptive thought and behavior patterns

Cognitive-behavioral

Some therapists take a(n) _____ approach to psychotherapy, which means they draw on numerous techniques in their work with clients

Eclectic

Social rejection activates the same neural circuitry that is involved in

Feeling physical pain

In _________, the client recounts a dream and then tries to take one image or idea and say whatever comes to mind, regardless of how threading, disgusting, or troubling it may be

Free association

Which of the following is not one of the three components of attitude?

Goals

Which symptom of schizophrenia does antipsychotic medication work best on?

Hallucinations

A treatment that used combination of light stimulation and genetics to manipulate the activity of individual neurons is known as ____

Optogenetics

Dr. hall is in a therapy session with his client steve, who is a violent criminal. Although Dr.Hall does not approve of his actions, he still shows genuine acceptance and empathy for him, regardless of what he has done. in the context of client-centeres therapy, Dr.hall is expressing

Unconditional positive regard

The first choice of treatment of schizophrenia is

Drug therapy

The___________ component of attitude consists of an attitude includes the feelings or emotions associated with a belief.

Affective

The diagnostic and statistical manual(DSM) originates from a(n) ________ perspective of psychological illness

American

In _________ therapies, therapists apply the principles of classic and operant conditioning to treat psychological disorders

Behavior

_______ diaorder is a mood disorder characterized by substantial mood fluctuations, cycling between very low and very high moods

Bipolar

Which of the following is an example of conformity?

Bridgette wants her parents to buy her the latest music CD because all her friends have it

Albert bandura's bobo doll study demonstrated that

Children can learn aggression through exposure to aggressive models

Any type of psychotherapy that work to restructure irrational thought patterns is known as _____ therapy

Cognitive

The __________component of attitude consists of the rational thoughts and belifes that make up the attitude

Cognitive

________ is the feeling of discomfort caused by information that is at odds with ones conception of oneself as a reasonable and sensible person

Cognitive dissonance

Of the "4 Ds" of determining whether something is a mental disorder, _______ behavior leads to real discomfort or anguish, either in the person directly or in others

Distressing

Which of the following is statements is true of dementia and alzheimers disease?

Dementia, unlike Alzheimer's disease, is an age related cognitive disorder

_______________ attributions ascribe other peoples behavior to something within them, such as their personality, motives, or attitudes

Dispositional

Which of the following is true of systematic desensitization?

In systematic desensitization, the therapist generates a hierarchy of increasing contact with the feared object, ranging from mild to extreme

When a person shows positive feelins toward people in his or her own culture and negative feelings toward those in other cultures, the person is displaying

In-group/out-group bias

In the context of drug therapies, selective serotonin reputable inhibitors treat depression by

Increasing the availability of serotonin in the brain

Which of the following is true about prolonged exposed therapy?

It combines cognitive-behavioral therapy with the imagined exposure form of systematic desensitization and relaxation

Which of the following best explains the bystander effect?

It is a phenomenon in which the more people who witness an emergency the less likely any one of them will help

Which of the following statements best describes a self serving bias?

It is the tendency to make situational attributions for ones failures but dispositional attributions for ones success

Which of the following instances is an example of discrimination?

Melvin does not hire women as he feels their place is in the kitchen

Joshua, who is therapy, has been trained to note thoughts as they occur, without clinging to them. This technique allows him to keep such thoughts or emotions in perspective. Joshuas training is called_____

Mindfulness meditation

________disorders include depressive disorders and bipolar disorders

Mood

Dr.Smith believes people who are very aggressive have become so because of their life experiences. Dr.Goldberg believes people are more or less aggressive from birth because of genetic factors. Which of the following terms best describes an issue in human development that is highlighted by their disagreement?

Nature vs Nurture

The interest of social psychologist stanley milgram in studying obedience emerged in response to:

Nazi officers following order during World War II

One of the major problems in treating schizophrenia is

Persuading patients to continue taking the medication

Which of the following are types of anxiety disorders?

Post-traumatic stress disorder and panic disorder

What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?

Prejudice is a thought or attitude and discrimination is an act.

______ focuses on identifying risk factors for developing disorders, targeting at-risk populations, an offering training programs that decrease the likelihood of disorders occurring

Prevention

________ therapy is the original form of "talk therapy" and is oriented toward the major personality change with a focus on uncovering motives, especially through dream interpretation

Psychoanalytic

Which of the following is true about schemas?

Schemas function like lenses through which one filters his or her perception

Under which of the following circumstances is electroconvulsive therapy used

To treat depression when other treatments have failed

In the process of ______, client unconsciously reacts to someone in a current relationship as though that person were someone from the clients past

Transference

Tricyclic antidepressants appear to work by blocking the reuptake of

Serotonin and norepinephrine

Which of the following is true about situational attribution?

Situational attributions are otherwise know as external attributions

What is the name of the substance that are at risk for birth defects?

Teratogens

A company that produces sport drink hires a popular and successful tennis player to promote its product. It runs television, radio, and web commercials featuring the athlete winning tennis matches, and consuming the sports drink. Based on this scenario, which of the following statements is true?

The perceived credibility of the athlete enhances the credibility of the product

Which of the following statements is true about antidepressants?

They appear to help people disengage from the repetitive cycle of anxiety-provoking thoughts.

Which of the following is a function of phenothiazines

They block dopamine receptors in the brain