Anxiety Disorders

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DELAYED REINFORCEMENT

Reinforcement that happens after a response. Delay may be signaled or unsignaled.

DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY

Flexible therapy combining principles of behaviour therapy, cognitive and mindfulness behaviours.

DISCRIMINATION TRAINING

1. process where an operant esponse is reinforced. 2. Sport. Training to be able toidentify task relevany cues.

DIVERGENT THINKING

Thinking that formulates new solutions to problems. Compare convergent thinking.

DYSPHORIA

Mood characterised by sadness.

EMOTIONAL CONFLICT

The state of disharmony between incompatible intense emotions such as love and desire.

EMOTION-FOCUSED COPING

Coping strategy focusing on regulating negative emotional reactions to a stressor. See secondary coping. Compare problem focused coping.

EPILEPTOID PERSONALITY

Personality pattern including irritability, selfishness, aggressiveness and being uncooperative.

EXACT REPLICATION

Repeating an experiment where the goal is to have the conditions as close to the original conditions as possible.

EXPOSURE THERAPY

Used to treat anxiety disorders by confronting the stimulus causing anxiety.

LIKERT SCALE

a scale which measures a perceived opinion of an object by a participant by using statements which reflect either a

MANUAL ARTS THERAPY

is the use of manual arts such as woodworking and metalworking as rehabilitative activities.

MEDICAL FAMILY THERAPY

attempts to combine the doctrines of psychotherapy and biopsychosocial systems in the context of a family situation to help other

METAPATHOLOGY

in the context of humanistic psychology, metapathology is the frustration and anxiety which arises from an inability to fulfil ones

MODALITY

is one experimental process or therapeutic technique.

MULTIPLE HURDLE MODEL OF SELECTION

is a battery of selection test typically employed when someone is applying for a position, they must pass each station

NEGATIVE TROPISM

is the action of actively moving away from a specific source of stimulation.

NORMATIVE-REEDUCATIVE STRATEGY

with regard to cultural psychology, the concept ascertaining that societal alterations ought to be based upon active re-education of persons

OPERANT CONDITIONING

initially explained by B.F. Skinner, the procedure wherein behavioral alterations take place as an act of the consequences of behavior.

OVERLOAD

noun. a psychological state wherein scenarios and encounters are so mentally, perceptually, and emotionally arousing that they drain or even