Changing goals, taking actions, preparing for a stressful situations, are techniques/ methods of dealing with stress.
Psychologist use scales to try to define what is normal and abnormal behavior. There is no absolute state of normal and abnormal behavior. Experiencing distress is correlated to abnormal behavior, which leads to the inability of functioning in one's daily life.
Axis II within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders regard personality disorders and mental retardation. Behavior patterns that are on-going and rigid.
Dissociative disorders ultimately mask or avoid anxiety. These disorders include personality seperation and the avoidance of unwanted memories from surfacing the conscious state of mind.
According to the cognitive approach to schizophrenia, overattention happens when an individual focuses extremely on one stimuli, and loses focus on all others. This will lead to mental meltdowns.
During psychodynamic therapy, the individual's unconscious state of mind will resist releasing information it's holding. This makes psychodynamic therapy very difficult to obtain any information, prolonging successful treatment. This is known as resistance.
IPT stands for Interpersonal therapy.
Psychosurgery is the surgical procedure of an individual's brain, to cure or reduce symptoms, of a mental disorder.
One forms impression of others by paying attention to important major traits. Those major traits are known as central traits.
Sales associates use techniques of compliance to influence others behavior.
Passionate love is a psychological state where one wants an intense social absorbtion from another individual.
