Z Unit 13.3 Psychology

Question 0

Meta- analysis

Answer 0

A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies

Question 1

Regression toward the mean

Answer 1

The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back toward their average

Question 2

Evidence- based practice

Answer 2

Clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences

Question 3

Therapeutic alliance

Answer 3

A bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client

Question 4

Resilience

Answer 4

The personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover for adversity and even trauma

Question 5

Psychopharmacology

Answer 5

The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

Question 6

Antipsychotic drugs

Answer 6

Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder

Question 7

Antianxiety drugs

Answer 7

Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

Question 8

Antidepressant drugs

Answer 8

Drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and post traumatic stress disorder

Question 9

Electroconvulsive therapy

Answer 9

A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

Question 10

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Answer 10

The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain

Question 11

Psychosurgery

Answer 11

Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

Question 12

Lobotomy

Answer 12

Cuts the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain