Quiz Five

Front 1

The study of continuity and change across the lifespan

Back 1

Developmental Psychology

Front 2

The emergence if the ability to understand the world

Back 2

Cognitive Development

Front 3

Theories about or models of the way the world works

Back 3

Schemas

Front 4

The process by which infants revise their schemas in light of new information

Back 4

Accommodations

Front 5

The idea that human behavior is guided by mental representations which gives rise to the realization that the world is not always the way it looks and that people see it differently

Back 5

Theory of Mind

Front 6

The emotional bond that forms between newborns and their primary caregivers

Back 6

Attachment

Front 7

A classification system that describes the features used to diagnose each recognized mental disorder and indicates how the disorder can be distinguished from other similar problems

Back 7

DSM-IV-TR

Front 8

The co-occurrence of two or more disorders in a single individual

Back 8

Comordbidity

Front 9

Suggests that a person might be predisposed for a mental disorder that remains unexpressed until triggered by stress

Back 9

Diathesis-stress Model

Front 10

The class of mental disorders in which anxiety is the predominant feature

Back 10

Anxiety Disorder

Front 11

Mental disorders that have mood disturbance as their predominant feature

Back 11

Mood Disorder

Front 12

The idea that individuals who are prone to depression automatically attribute negative experiences to causes that are internal, stable, and global

Back 12

Helplessness Theory

Front 13

an interaction between a therapist and someone suffering from psychological problem with the goal of providing support or relief from the problem

Back 13

Psychotherapy

Front 14

treatment that draws on techniques from different forms of therapy depending on the client and the problem

Back 14

Eclectic Psychotherapy

Front 15

a type of therapy that assumes that disordered behavior is learned and that symptom relief is achieved through changing overt maladaptive behaviors into more constructive behaviors

Back 15

Behavioral Therapy

Front 16

An approach to treatment that involves confronting an emotion-arousing stimulus directly and repeatedly ultimately leading to decrease in the emotional response

Back 16

Exposure Therapy

Front 17

A form of psychotherapy that involves helping a client identify and correct in distorted thinking about self others or the world

Back 17

Cognitive Therapy

Front 18

A blend of cognitive and behavioral therapeutic strategies

Back 18

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Front 19

Therapy in which multiple participants(who often do not know one another at the outset) work on their individual problems in a group atmosphere

Back 19

Group Therapy