3rd Test - focus on psychology aspect Flashcards

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Define schools of thought

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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

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what Is the brain

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What is physically inside the skull, and it’s study consists of understanding the functions of its various structures

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What is the mind

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Refers to the mental processes and it’s study is an attempt to understand the conscious and the unconscious

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Define psychodynamic theory

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And approach to therapy that focuses on resolving a patient’s conflicted conscience and unconscience feelings

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Define psychoanalytic theory

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Sigmund freud’s theory That all human behavior is influenced by early childhood and childhood experience influence the unconscious mind throughout life

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Define unconscious

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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

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Define conscious

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Information that we are always aware of, our conscience mind preforms the thinking that we take in new information

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Define ego

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The term for the rational part of the mind, which operates on the reality principle

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Define ID

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Term for instinctual part of the mind, which are on the pleasure principle

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Define super ego

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The term for the moral center of mind

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Define defense mechanism

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The ego’s way of distorting reality to deal with anxiety

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Define repression

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A process in which unacceptable desires her impulses are excluded from consciousness and have to operate and unconscious

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Define denial

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But defense mechanism whereby person refuses to knowledge or recognize something that is painful

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Define displacement

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A shift of an emotion from its original focus to another object, person, situation

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Define free association

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A method used in psychoanalysis where patient relaxes and says whatever comes to mind

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Define projection

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A defense mechanism whereby a person attributes their own threatening impulses on to someone else

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Define neo-freudians

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Psychologist modified his social and cultural aspects

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Who is karen horney

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She was a neo-freudian who believed with his basic theories However she alter some of them to include feminism… founder of feminine psychology

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Define neurotic disorder

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A mental disorder involving anxiety

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Define analytical psychology

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Branch of psychology founded by Carl Jung based on the fountain person psych would allow the person to reach his or her full tension

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Define collective unconscious

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The shared, and inheritance pool of memories from our ancestors

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Define archetypes

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Universal symbols that tend to reappear overtime, includes models of people, behaviors and personalities

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What did Joan believe the two parts to the unconscious were

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The personal and collective

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Define personal unconscious

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A unique aspect to each individual

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Define personality

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And individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting

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Who is Narcissis

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The Greek God who loved himself and only cared about himself

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Define psychopathy

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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

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What is the dark triad

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The person has three traits, narcissism and psychopathy and Machiavellianism, said they are the ultimate evil

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What is Machiavellianism

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Doing bad, Cunning, deceitful things but having the be justified as long as it’s for political power

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Define narcissist

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Very full of him or herself

31
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Define sadism

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The condition in which sexual gratification depends on causing pain or degrading of others

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Define masochism

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The condition in which sexual gratification and I’m suffering physical pain or humiliation

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Is the dark triad an inherited trait

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It’s thought that only caught the fee and narcissism are however Machiavellianism is not

34
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What did Stanley Milgram do

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Conducted the shock test to see if people would obey authority even if they knew they were hurting somebody. This test consisted of an electrical shock that was fake, but the person in this experiment did not know that

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What is antisocial personality disorder

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The tendency to disregard right in boundaries of others, sociopaths and psychopaths are this

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Define psychopath

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Does not have a conscience. If they lie or steal they will not have moral compass

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Define Sociopath

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Typically have a conscious, but it’s weak and they may know that lying g and stealing is wrong and may feel some guilt but they will not stop the behavior.

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Explain a little bit about the fight or flight response

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It’s also called the acute stress response. Was first described by Walter cannon in the 1920s as a theory animals reacted to threats with a general discharge of sympathetic nervous system. But it was later recognize as the first stage General adaption syndrome that regulate stress response among vertebrae’s and other organisms

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When does the frontal lobe fully developed

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Around the age of 25

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What is stress

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Your body stress response kicks in when you receive your under threat. Mammals have a ball to the soup herb mechanism to ensure we have the best possible chance of survival when facing life-threatening situations

41
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Define neuroscientist

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A scientist who specializes in the study of the brain

42
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How’s it possible to see the brain in real time

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Through functional magnetic resonance imaging

43
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Tell a little bit about Phineas Gage

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He’s a 25-year-old who in the 1848 had a metal rod go through his skull, but he survived however he had a completely different personality after

44
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What is Noam Chomsky’s theory

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Language must be learned by puberty. If it isn’t, then a person cannot fully learn a language

45
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What was the early theories of language acquisition

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A man by the name of skin or fat the language development by means of environmental influences. He argued that children learn language based on behavioral reinforcement principles by associating words with meanings and correct her and says were positively and forced

46
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Who is Victor

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A feral child who was left in the woods in France. he never fully learned to speak

47
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Define homicide

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Legally, homicide is a neutral term the causing of death of a human being

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What is capable homicide

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intentional

49
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What are the types of capable homicide

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Murder
Manslaughter
Infanticide

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Define murder

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The intentional killing of a human being

51
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Define manslaughter

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Unlawful homicide without intent or premeditation

ex. DUI (Driving drunk and hitting someone(s) which leads to their death.

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Define infantcide

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The crime of killing a child within a year of birth

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What are the different degrees of murder

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1, 2, 3

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what is first degree murder

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—When a person kills another person after deliberation or premeditation

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Define second degree murder

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When a person kills another person with no premeditation, but intent

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Define mass murder

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Three or more victims at a single geographical location with no cooling-off period between the killings

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define spree murder

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Three or more victims without a cooling-off period, usually at two or three different geographical locations.

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define serial murder

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—A minimum of three victims over time

—Cooling-off period

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what are the types of serial murder

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Visionary Serial Killer
The Mission-Oriented Serial Killer
Hedonistic Serial Killer
Power Control Serial Killer

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Define visionary serial killer

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Serial killers who commit murders in response to an inner voice that demands that some person be killed
Ex. Ed Gein
He believed that by eating the corpses of women who looked like his mother, he could preserve his mother’s soul inside his body

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Define mission-oriented serial killer

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Serial killers who are motivated to rid the world of a particular type of person that they consider undesirable
Function on a day-to-day basis without demonstrating aberrant behaviour
Examples
Joseph Paul Franklin
Killed 12 black men for being with white women. (did not like mixed race couples.

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define hedonistic serial killer

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Serial killers who are thrill-seeking murderers who get excitement and sexual pleasure from their acts
Lust killer, Thrill Killer, Creature-Comfort killer
Example
John Wayne Gacy
Dennis Rader (BTK - Bind, Torture, Kill)
Jeffery Dahmer

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define Power Control Serial Killer

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Serial killers who enjoy having complete control over their victims
Kill for dominance
Example
Cameron Hooker
Kidnapped a woman and held her hostage as a sex slave for over seven years (1977-1984)

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What are the types of mass murder

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  1. Disciples
  2. Family Annihilators
  3. “Set and run” killers
  4. Pseudo-commandos
  5. Disgruntled employees
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Define disciples

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A person who commits murder at the behest of a charismatic leader
Example: Charles Manson

66
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define family annihilators

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A person who kills his family and commits suicide

Examples: Chris Benoit, WWE Wrestler, who killed his wife, his seven year old son and himself in 2007

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define set and run killers

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A person who plans an escape route following the killing aftermath
Examples: Timothy McVeigh & Terry Nicholas.
The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist bomb attack on the Alred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19,1995
The Oklahoma blast claimed 168 blast lives, including 19 children under the age of 6 and injured more than 680 people

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define pseudo-commandors

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A person with an obsession for guns and a fantasy for murder

69
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define disgruntled employees

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A person who seeks revenge for real or imagined wrongs at the hands of co-workers or employers.

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different categories of motivation

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Five categories of motivation applicable to both serial and mass killing
Power
Revenge
Loyalty
Profit
Terror