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What type of depression occurs in the winter?

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Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

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What type of disorder is SAD?

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Mood disorder

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What is the treatment for SAD?

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Light exposure therapy

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Which therapy involves rapidly moving your finger in front of the patient’s eyes?

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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

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What is it called when you look at many journals on the same topic and draw conclusions from them?

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Meta-analysis

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What is it called when therapists use multiple therapies to help patients?

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Eclectic approach

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What is it called when a patient believes a therapy will work, even when it wasn’t effective on its own?

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Placebo effect

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What describes mentally strong people who can cope with traumatic experiences?

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Resilient

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Which therapy involves the therapist challenging the patient’s irrational beliefs?

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Rational emotive therapy

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Ms. Connors gives stickers for participation. What is she doing?

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Behavior modification

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Which therapy treats irrational fears?

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Exposure therapy

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What is an example of exposure therapy?

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Systematic desensitization

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What is counter conditioning?

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Condition a new response to stressful stimuli

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What are the types of counter conditioning?

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Exposure, aversive

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What is aversive conditioning?

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Teach people to dislike stimulus

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The intervention for bed wetting is which type of therapy?

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Classical conditioning (behavioral)

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Which therapy did Carl Rogers found?

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Client centered therapy

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Which type of therapy involves interpreting dreams?

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Psychoanalytic

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What field is the study of the effect of drugs?

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Psychopharmacology

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What did Freud call our tendency to not think about anxiety arousing thoughts?

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Resistance

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What is it called when patient’s are reminded of past relationships and treat the therapist in that way?

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Transference

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What is it called when therapists project issues from past relationships onto patients?

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Countertransference

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What is the goal of psychoanalytic therapy?

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Reveal unconscious

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People with antisocial personality disorder have less activity in their _______.

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Frontal lobes

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A ________ involves inserting an instrument through the eye socket and into the brain. Trephination
Lobotomy
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What is a personality disorder?
Inflexible, enduring patterns of behavior that impair social functioning
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What type of drug blocks dopamine?
Antipsychotics
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What do you call a chemical that can block the activity of neurotransmitters?
Antagonist
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Which disorder do you have if you exhibit more than one personality?
DID (dissociative identity disorder)
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What is dissociation
Separated from your consciousness, feeling outside of your body/unreal
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What are the negative and positive symptoms?
Negative: absence of normal behaviors Positive: additional abnormal behaviors
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What do SSRIs treat?
Depression
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What does SSRI stand for?
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
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Which drug depresses central nervous system activity?
Anti-anxiety
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How do anti-anxiety drugs work?
Increase GABA
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Virtual reality is a form of?
Exposure therapy
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Which disorder do you have if you exhibit extreme depression and mania?
Bipolar
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What is a common treatment for bipolar disorder?
Lithium
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Which disorder involves your mental state affecting your physical state?
Somatic symptom disorder
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What did Philipe Pinel do?
Argued for better treatment of the mentally ill, created the Medical Model
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What is it called when people grow from their traumatic experiences?
Posttraumatic experiences
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Prisons use a reward system where you are rewarded for good behavior which can be exchanged for privileges. What is that called?
Token economy
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What is psychosurgery?
A last resort, remove/destroy brain tissue to try to fix something
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Where does fear leave tracks in the brain?
The amygdala
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What is it called when a person's genes are linked with a disorder? (nature)
Genetic predisposition
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What is the way that the environment alters the expression of genes? (nurture)
Epigenetics
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What is it called when a child gets bit by a dog and is now scared of all furry animals?
Stimulus generalization
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What are some personality disorders?
Antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic, schizoid, dependent...
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What is it called when somebody is so repeatedly worried that they left their stove on that they must leave work to go check?
OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder)
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What is a compulsion in OCD?
Actions
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What is an obsession in OCD?
ThoughtsWh
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What is it called when somebody thinks they see their Great Aunt enter the room?
Hallucination
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What is it called when somebody believes their dead Great Aunt is still alive?
Delusion
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What disorder does someone who is afraid of going outside have?
Agoraphobia
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Which therapy involves shocking people under amnesia?
Electroconvulsive therapy
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Which disorder does someone experiencing hallucinations and delusions have?
Schizophrenia
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Antidepressants elevate which neurotransmitters?
Norepinephrine, serotonin
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Which disorder does somebody who is constantly anxious have?
Generalized anxiety disorder
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What is a biomedical intervention?
Medication, diet changes, surgery, electroconvulsive therapy
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What is insight?
Therapist shows patient how they think, which helps them
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What is a disorder describes people who have trouble focusing and are fidgety have?
ADHD
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What is a judicial term that describes people with disorders? (not used in therapy/psychology)
Insanity
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What does DSM stand for?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders
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What does the DSM do?
Helps psychologists diagnose disorders
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Which disorder do antipsychotics treat?
Schizophrenia
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Which hemisphere of the brain is associated with depression?
Right brain
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What dictates a mental illness?
Behavior is maladaptive, distressful, dysfunctional
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What is insight?
Sudden understanding of a situation, gut feeling
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Negative self talk is treated with which therapy?
Cognitive therapy

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