Psychology Final Questions

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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


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