Personality Health Psychology Abnormal Psychology Social Psychology Miscellaneous
100
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Name associated with the founding of psychoanalysis.
100
What is stress?
A person's response to events that are threatening or challenging.
100
What is the DSM-V?
Name of the diagnostic manual used in Abnormal Psychology.
100
What is difussion of responsibility?
The tendency for several people to be less helpful than one person.
100
What is an algorithm?
A rule which guarantees a solution if followed.
200
What is self efficacy?
Feeling of confidence about how well you can handle a situation.
200
What is a cataclysmic event?
A strong stressor that occurs suddenly and typically effects many people at once.
200
What is a clinical psychologist?
A professional who provides outpatient or inpatient psychotherapy to the individual, family, or group.
200
What is instinct theory?
Agression theory that emphasizes inborn, innate impulses.
200
What is a neurotransmitter?
Chemical substance that transmits information in the nervous system.
300
What is reaction formation?
Defense mechanism in which the person behaves oppositely to his or her true feelings.
300
What is General Adaptaion Syndrome (GAS)?
A theory that suggests that a person's response to a stressor consists of three stages: alarm and mobilizaton, resistance, and exhaustion.
300
What is a Somatoform DIsorder?
Psychological difficulty that takes on a physical form, but for which there is no medical cause.
300
What is the ingroup-outgroup bias?
The tendency to regard others as inferior to your own group.
300
What is confirmation bias?
Tendency to stick to your first solution to a problem.
400
What is the ego?
Determines right from wrong on the basis of cultural standards.
400
What is type A behavior pattern?
A cluster of behaviors involving hostility, competitiveness, time urgency, and feeling driven.
400
What is the therapeutic alliance?
The bond between client and therapist.
400
What is central route processing?
Method of persuasion that causes the most lasting attitude change.
400
What is episodic memory?
Memory for events that have happened to you in the past.
500
What is the learning approach to personality?
Proponents of this approach to personality would be most likely to agree with the statement, "Personality can be thought of as learned responses to a person's upbringing and environment."
500
What is emotion focused coping?
People try to manage their emotions in the face of stress by seeking to change the way they feel about or percieve a problem.
500
What is compulsion?
Bizarre and Repetitive Behavior.
500
What is the fundamental attribution error?
Tendency to see a situation as causing your behavior but dispositions as causing other people's behavior.
500
What is the amygdala?
Part of the limbic system that is involved in agression.






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