Chapt.1-4 Flashcards
(61 cards)
Placebo effect
Gets better because of expectation
Comorbidity
Showing the traits of two different disorders
Chloride
Stops the message
Spontaneous remission
When people get better without treatment
Existentualistic
Doing something meaningful
Interpersonal therapy
Evidence-base treatment that focuses on changing emotions and styles of interacting in close relationships
Social cognition
The study of how humans process information about the social world
Recticular activating
Regulates sleeping and waking
Operant behavior
Rewarding and punishment behavior example token economy poker chip at SafeWord
Aversive
Something that makes you uncomfortable
Flooding
Exposing them to the thing that their most afraid of-worst stimulus possible
Electroconvulsive therapy
Originally used for schizophrenia. Test includes electrical shocks. Was not used with muscle reliever’s results it’s a broken collarbone
Mental disorders
Caused by many factors. Physicians try to eliminate symptoms in order for the patients to live a happier life
Client-centered
Clients I have extra therapy, therapist is allowed to talk about herself
Gestalt
Deal with hear and now
Therapeutic alliance
Therapist and client work together
Double-blind study
Both Dr. and patient don’t know
Single-blind study
Dr. knows, patient doesn’t
Diagnoses
Does not happen by one since I’m on it’s own established by sets of symptoms
Midbrain
Control of some motor activities example fighting and sex
Discordant
One twin has a disorder other twin does not
Androgyny
The possession of both female and male gender role characteristics
Biological approach
Diagnosis and medication, brief visits
Psycho dynamic
Gain insight to unconscious