4.2 Flashcards
Conscious
-aware of your surroundings when your awake
Unconscious
- lacking awareness or consciousness
- not awake
preconscious
- the part of the mind in which preconscious thoughts or memories reside
free association
- The patient is allowed to talk without pause in a stream of words
- Freud believed this shows the thinking which would lead to the unconscious mind.
- FREE speech
projective tests
- a personality test in which subjects are shown images and asked to interpret them
- the bunny or duck picture
Defense mechanism
dealing with impulses and emotions
repression
- the route of all other mechanisms
- when you try to banish your impulses
displacement
- a defense mechanism that involves transferring negative feelings from one thing to another.
- ex: a person angry at their boss take it out their anger on a family member.
projection
- when you try to think of another way to get what you want
- ex: the man whore fucks everyone but he actually just wants to fuck his mom but he cant so he finds another way which is being a whore
-put your impulses on to others
rationalization
- excuse that someones a bitch because blah blah but its not a real reason
reaction formation
- converting your impulses into the opposite actions
- ex: being mean to a girl because you like her (opposite)
regression
- going back to the stages where sex wasn’t an issue
- ex: sucking your thumb at a grow age
sublimation
- ex: Vhango cut his ears drew it and boxed it up shipped it to a girl
- taking your impulses and craziness and putting into smt you do (workout, planning, work in general)
Person-Centered
- therapy where the client does most of the talking
- literally regular therapy
Unconditional Positive Regard
- complete support and acceptance of a person no matter what that person says or does
- you will love hem no matter what they do or say (husband)
self serving bias
when you do smt good you think your the best and when you do bad you think you the worst
big five
- acronym OCEAN
- openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism
Extraversion
- outgoing and tend to gain energy in social situations.
nurotisum- stability
characterized by:
- sadness
- moodiness
- emotional instability
Openness
- high in openness tend to have a broad range of interests
- eager to learn new things and enjoy new experiences.
Agreeableness
- more cooperative while those low in this personality trait tend to be more competitive and sometimes even manipulative.
- someone more likely who is liked and trusted
Conscientiousness
- Highly conscientious people who tend to be organized and mindful of details.
- They plan ahead: consider how their behavior affects others
- are conscious of deadlines.
temperament
- being your self
- a person’s natural personality traits, including their mood, emotional reactivity, and behavioral style
Reciprocal Determinism
- a person’s behavior is influenced by their thoughts, beliefs
Self-Efficacy
- belief we have in our own abilities
- our ability to meet the challenges ahead of us and complete a task successfully.
learned helplessness
- occurs when an individual continuously faces a negative situation but stops trying to change their circumstances, even when they have the ability to do so
-ex: a smoker may repeatedly try and fail to quit.
locus of control
- when people believe that they have full control what happens in their life.
internal
- when you belive you attribute success of your own life
external
- when you believe you cant control your fate because its out of my hands
- someone else control your destiny
instinct
- something that you just know from birth
- birds build nest bc they just know how to
-complex behavior
drive-reduction theory
- the drive to do something
- caffeine drive, hunger drive (drive to eat because your hungry)
incentive
- external stimuli (the smell of and the cookies in general)
- Ex: when you go out to eat full don’t want to eat but mom makes cookies you smell them and even though before you didn’t want anything now you do
sensation seeking
- trying to elevate arousal
experience-seeking
- cultural stimulation
- ex: listening to music
thrill-seeking
- thrill stimuli
-rollercoaters
Disinhibition
- sexually drawn/stimuli
Boredom susceptibility
-cant be bored
self determination theory
- says thats there are two main types of motivation—intrinsic and extrinsic
- shapes how we behave and think
Intrinsic
- doing smt bc you enjoy it or want to
- you like painting so you doing it is intrinsic
- you play volleyball and you like it so your head is IN-trinsic the game
- inerfeeling of satisfactory
Extrinsic
-doing smt bc im paying you to do it wether you like it or not
glucose
sugar
leptin
supreses appatite
orexin
- hungrin
- makes you hungry
- makes you look for food but you wont just eat anything (bc of low blood sugar)
grelin
- makes you stomach growl
- you dont care what you eat you just need to eat now
Anorexia
- doesn’t include anything about method
- when your under 15% under body weight and still not feeling skinny so you still dieting
- most common in women
Bulimia
- binge eat then they then take steps to avoid weight gain.
-ex: eating alot then vomiting it all up to lose the weight.
-ex(kinda): binge workouting (working out but overly working out)
Yerkes- Dodson Law
- when your at a moderate level stress and arousal which your a your peak performance.
- baseball player x
display rules
- how much emotion a person can display and how much emotion is appropriate in each culture
- under what circumstances are you allowed to display emotion
-ex: in china anger is not appropriate to be displayed but in iraq it is appropriate
elicitors
- the actual face expression that evokes a response or reaction from someone or something
catharsis
- when you bottling the anger up and you don’t vent your anger out
- cats build up anger thats why they’re mean