Clinical Psychology - Key Terms

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A region of the brain which converts sensory information into thoughts and actions and has higher activity in OCD patients is known as what?
Orbitofrontal Cortex
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Learning a new response to a phobic object/situation is known as...
Counter-Conditioning
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Failure to function adequately is ...
When a person's behaviour means they are unable to cope with the demands of everyday life.
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Where a sufferer remains in the presence of a phobic stimulus but continues to experience high levels of anxiety is known as what?
Endurance
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The 10th revision of the Internal Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems is known as what?
ICD 10
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Beck suggested that there are 3 types of negative thinking in depressed individuals (The self, The world and The future). What is this called?
Negative Triad
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The name of the method used in behavioural treatment of phobias involves exposure to the phobic stimulus without being able to escape it is known as what?
Flooding (in-vivo)
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This treatment involves drugs, which usually affect transmitter levels.
Drug Therapy
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A behaviour that is statistically infrequent is known as:
Statistical infrequency
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This is a form of learning in which behaviour is shaped and maintained by its consequences.
Operant Conditioning
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The region of the brain involved in the coordination of movement which has been linked to OCD.
Basal Ganglia
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An irrational fear of a social situation is known as:
Social Phobia
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A behaviour therapy designed to gradually reduce phobia through the principle of classical conditioning is known as...
Systematic Desensitisation
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The behavioural approach...
is a way of explaining behaviour in terms of what is observable and in terms of learning.
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A behavioural explanation for phobias that suggests phobias are acquired through classical conditioning and maintained through operant conditioning.
Two-Process Model
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