Across
- 1. the perception that that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself
- 3. an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange tokens for privileges or treats
- 5. the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
- 6. the ability to control impulses and delay short term gratification for greater long term rewards
- 8. the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events called stressors that we appraise as threatening or challenging
- 9. a psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain
- 11. a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in which dangerously poor judgment is common
- 13. a false belief, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders
- 14. a disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions), actions (compulsions), or both
- 15. the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
- 16. surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
- 17. a psychological disorder marked by extreme inattention and/or hyperactivity and impulsivity
Down
- 2. compulsive fretting, overthinking our problems and their causes
- 4. behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors, exposure therapies and aversive conditioning
- 7. false sensory experiences, such as seeing emotion in the absence of an eternal visual stimulus
- 10. the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
- 12. fear or avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide open places, where one has felt loss of control and panic