Psychodynamic psychotherapies correct answers - explore childhood events and encourage
individuals to use understanding to develop insight into psychological problems
Interpersonal psychotherapy correct answers - form of psychotherapy that focuses on helping
clients improve current relationships
- focus on grief, role disputes, role transitions, interpersonal deficits
Cognitive Therapy correct answers - involves helping client identify and correct any distorted
thinking about self, others or the world
- cognitive restructuring & mindful meditation
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy correct answers - blend of cognitive and behavioural therapeutic
strategies
- transparency
Transference correct answers - event that occurs in psychoanalysis when analyst begins to
assume major significance in client's life and client reacts to the analyst based on unconscious
childhood fantasies
Cognitive restructuring correct answers - therapeutic approach that teaches client to question
automatic hells, assumptions and predictions that often lead to negative thinking
- think more realistic and positive beliefs
Mindfulness meditation correct answers - teaches individual to be fully present in each moment
- to be aware of his or her thoughts, feelings, and sensations
- to detect symptoms before they become a problem
Psychopharmacology correct answers - study of drug effects on psychological states and
symptoms
Antipsychotic drugs correct answers - medications that are used to treat schizophrenia and
related psychotic disorders
- block dopamine receptors: work well of positive symptoms
- atypical antipsychotics: work on both dopamine and serotonin systems
, Anti-anxiety medications correct answers - drugs that help reduce a person's experience of fear
or anxiety
- facilitates GABA action (neurotransmitter that helps calm body)
- issues of tolerance, side effects and withdrawal
SSRIs correct answers - antidepressant medication
- also treat anxiety disorders
- act on neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine by inhibiting breaking
and blocking reuptake
CBT + medication correct answers - most effective combo in treating depression & anxiety
Electroconvulsive Therapy correct answers - treatment that involves inducing mild seizure by
delivering an electrical shock to brain
Lithium correct answers - drug used to treat bipolar disorder and blood problems
- suppresses swings between mania and depression
Double-blind experiment correct answers - both patient and researcher/therapist are uninformed
about which treatment the patient is receving
Aggression correct answers - behaviour whose purpose is to harm another
Frustration-aggression hypothesis correct answers - principle stating that animals aggress only
when their goals are thwarted
- negative mood (affect) may cause aggression
Gender correct answers - best predictor for aggression
- socialization and testosterone may be causes
Cooperation correct answers - behaviour by two or more individuals that leads to mutual benefit
Discrimination correct answers - positive or negative behaviour toward another person based on
their group membership
Prejudice correct answers - positive or negative evaluation of another person based on their
group membership
Difference between prejudice and discrimination correct answers - negative beliefs on people
- discrimination when one acts out negative beliefs usually excluding people
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