Psychology Modules 53-55 (BONUS)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Behavior Therapy | Therapy that cripples learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors. |
| Counter Conditioning | A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke how responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning. |
| Exposure Therapies | Behavior as tech., such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid. |
| Psycho Therapy | Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth. |
| Meta-analysis | A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies |
| Systematic Desensitization | A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli, commonly used to treat phobias. |
| Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy | An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears; such as an airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking. |
| Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) | A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized person |
| Repetitive transcranial magnetic simulation (rTMS) | The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain. Used to stimulate or suppress brain activity. |
| Psychosurgery | Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior. |
| Evidence-based Practice | Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences. |
| Biomedical Therapy | Prescirbed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervous system |
| Psychoparmacology | The study of the effects of drugs on the mind or brain. |
| Interpretation | In psychoanalysis, the analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight. |
| Transference | In psychoanalysis, the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships. |
| Electric Approach | An approach to psychotherapy that depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy. |
| Resistance | In psychoanalysis, the blocking from conscious of anxiety laden material. |
| Aversive Conditioning | A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as alcohol) |
| Token Economy | An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the toke for various privileges or treatments. |
| Attitude | Feelings often influenced by our benefits that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events. |
| Central route to persuasion | Occurs when interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts. |
| Peripheral rout to persuasion | Occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues such as speaker's attractiveness. |
| Cognitive Therapy | Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways to thinking and acting |
| Cognitive behavior therapy | A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy |
| Family therapy | Therapy that treats the family as a system views an individuals behaviors as influence by, or directed at, other family member |
| Lobotomy | A now rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to emotion - controlling centers of the inner brain. |
| Antipsychotic Drugs | Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of sever though disorder |
| Tardive Dyskinesia | Involuntary movements of facial muscles tongue, and limbs. A possible neurotoxic side effect of long term use of anti psychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors. |
| Antianxiety Drugs | Drugs used to control anxiety/depression. |
| Antidepressant Drugs | Drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety; different types work by altering the availability of neurotransmitters. |
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