Ch 5 Theories and Therapies Flashcards
Theory
statement that explains of describes relationship among events ideas or concepts
Model
example or pattern that helps explain a theory
Psychoanalytic theories include
those by freud
Id
-comes from
instincts
governed by pleasure
-early childhood memories
Ego
- when does it develop
- helps us to
active awareness consciousness -child becomes aware of self -around age 2 -cope with outside world
Superego is formed by
attitudes values role expectations taboos rules ideals standards
Superego
- conscience
- ego ideal
- punishes with guilt and anxiety
- rewards
Freud’s theory of personality development
sexual instinct growth in 4 stages
Freud believed humans were motivated by
procreation
libidinal energy
need to seek sexual pleasure
Psycho-sexual theory
- founder
- emotional disturbances from
- Freud
- instinctual biological drives
- early childhood
- unconscious attitudes and memories
- fixation from earlier psycho-sexual stages
- defenses to prevent change in person
Defense mechanisms
strategies to reduce or avoid negative states
commonly used defense mechanisms
denial
projection
fantasy
repression
Therapies for psychoanalytic therapy
dream analysis
free association
transference relationship
Dream analysis
superego sensors less
Id shows
interpret symbols
Free association
first word that comes to mind
transference relationship
transfer emotions from person in past to the therapist
Analytic theory was founded by
Carl Jung
Analytic theory believes
main driver is general life energy
adult personalities can change
3 levels of analytic theory
- conscious ego
- personal unconscious
- collective conscious
Archetypes
-what theory
stores of experience of all man’s ancestral past
Analytic
Extrovert and introvert were coined by
Carl Jung
Analytic theory is focused on
balance and wholeness
primary effort in life for analytic theory
to gain more awareness
Psyche
mental and spiritual
Soma
physical body
Individual psychotherapy
- aka
- founder
- adlerian psychology
- Alfred Adler
Individual psychotherapy
- infant
- child
- stars in position of inferiority
- must learn to master his world
Individual psychotherapy
-position of child in family creates
evaluation of self and others
Individual psychotherapy
-goal of life
to gain mastery of environment by coping with
- work
- belonging
- social interaction
- interaction with other genders
how self relates to individual psychotherapy
must define self
find meaning in life
Behavior in individual psychotherapy
meaningful only within social setting
to understand a person in individual psychotherapy
must see and hear for self
Mentally ill in individual psychotherapy
not mentally ill only discouraged
individual psychotherapy encourages client to
take responsibility to direct life in positive way
Basic anxiety
- founder
- child isolation
- Karen Horney
- not inherited
- result of social and cultural upbringing
Erich Fromm believed loneliness is
motivation for social interaction
Who developed idea of character/Personality types
Erich Fromm
interpersonal Psychology
- founder
- emphasises
- Harry Stack Sullivan
- Social nature of people
Interpersonal psychology
-identified what as having a critical role in personality development
anxiety
Interpersonal psychology
- personality
- Mental health problems
- -called
- pattern of interpersonal relationships
- result of distorted image of relationships
- -personification
Interpersonal psychology
-anxiety
vague feeling of uneasiness as a result of stress
Interpersonal development
six stages from infancy to adolescence
Cognitive development
- founder
- personality is result of
- Jean Piaget
- cognitive and emotional functions
developmental psycho-social task in cognitive development and when do they occur
Sensorimotor- birth to 2 yo
Preoperational- 2 to 7 yo
concrete operational- 8 to 11 yo
formal operational- 12 to 15 yo
sensorimotor stage
permanence
coordinated movements
goal directed behavior
imitation
Preoperational stage
symbolic mental ability
- thinking limited
- centered on self
- language as tool
- routine
- see only one part of situation
- only one dimension of object
- justifies behavior at all cost
Concrete operational stage
logical objective thinking
- understands math
- able to reflect and discover relationships in enviorment
formal operational stage
thinking abstractly
- consider all possibilities
- probability and proportions understood
- problem solving for conflicts
what is the foundation of behavioral theory
all behavior is learned
behavior in behavioral theory is result of
past learning
current motivation
biological differences
Objective psychology
- founder
- what is it
- B.F Skinner
- only observable behavior in current situations can be analyzed
B.F Skinner theories include
- operant conditioning
- positive and negative reinforcement
- shaping
- programmed learning
- all organisms more to pleasure and away from pain
shaping
overall approach to changing observable behavior
programmed learning
new knowledge is broken into smaller bits and presented at the learner’s pace
Joseph Wolpe believed
neuroses and anxiety are conditioned responses
Stimulus-response theory
- founder
- what is it
- Dollard and Miller
- reward forms new behavioral responses