3rd Test - focus on psychology aspect Flashcards
Define schools of thought
Systematic instruction ways of approaching questions related to human behavior that have different sets of underlying assumptions for example but inserts for psychology can only study and manipulate what it conceive
what Is the brain
What is physically inside the skull, and it’s study consists of understanding the functions of its various structures
What is the mind
Refers to the mental processes and it’s study is an attempt to understand the conscious and the unconscious
Define psychodynamic theory
And approach to therapy that focuses on resolving a patient’s conflicted conscience and unconscience feelings
Define psychoanalytic theory
Sigmund freud’s theory That all human behavior is influenced by early childhood and childhood experience influence the unconscious mind throughout life
Define unconscious
Information processing in her mind that you’re not aware of, like unacceptable thoughts, feelings and memories according to John it includes patterns of memories, instance, and experience is common to all
Define conscious
Information that we are always aware of, our conscience mind preforms the thinking that we take in new information
Define ego
The term for the rational part of the mind, which operates on the reality principle
Define ID
Term for instinctual part of the mind, which are on the pleasure principle
Define super ego
The term for the moral center of mind
Define defense mechanism
The ego’s way of distorting reality to deal with anxiety
Define repression
A process in which unacceptable desires her impulses are excluded from consciousness and have to operate and unconscious
Define denial
But defense mechanism whereby person refuses to knowledge or recognize something that is painful
Define displacement
A shift of an emotion from its original focus to another object, person, situation
Define free association
A method used in psychoanalysis where patient relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
Define projection
A defense mechanism whereby a person attributes their own threatening impulses on to someone else
Define neo-freudians
Psychologist modified his social and cultural aspects
Who is karen horney
She was a neo-freudian who believed with his basic theories However she alter some of them to include feminism… founder of feminine psychology
Define neurotic disorder
A mental disorder involving anxiety
Define analytical psychology
Branch of psychology founded by Carl Jung based on the fountain person psych would allow the person to reach his or her full tension
Define collective unconscious
The shared, and inheritance pool of memories from our ancestors
Define archetypes
Universal symbols that tend to reappear overtime, includes models of people, behaviors and personalities
What did Joan believe the two parts to the unconscious were
The personal and collective
Define personal unconscious
A unique aspect to each individual
Define personality
And individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting
Who is Narcissis
The Greek God who loved himself and only cared about himself
Define psychopathy
A mental disorder in which individual manifests a moral and antisocial behaviors, lack ability to love or establishment for personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, and failure to learn from experience
What is the dark triad
The person has three traits, narcissism and psychopathy and Machiavellianism, said they are the ultimate evil