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Chapter 2 Flashcards

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Biological Perspective

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How brain and nervous system impact behaviour

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Behavioural Perspective

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Environmental values that reinforce behaviour

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Cross- Cultural approach

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How cultural and social influences effect behaviour

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Reductionism

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Focuses on reducing complex phenomena into its most basic parts

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Frontal Lobe

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Motor Cortex, involved in motor skills, higher level of cognition and expressive knowledge

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Occipital Lobe

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Visual Cortex: Involved in interpreting visual stimuli and information

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Parietal Lobe

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Soma-sensory cortex, involved in processing sensory information like pressure touch and pain

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Temporal Lobe

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Auditory Cortex: Involved in interpreting sounds and language we hear

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Psychodynamic Perspective

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ID, EGO AND SUPEREGO impact behaviour

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ID

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Driven by pleasure principe: Satisfies unconscious desires. Like hunger= Attempt to eat

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EGO

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Is based on the reality principe to satisfy ID’s desires. Weighs in the pros and cons

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Super EGO

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Ethical component of personality and provides moral standards by which the ego operates

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Phenomenal

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In the moment

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Access

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Recalls experiences from memory

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Psychoanalysis

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Talk Therapy: Involves attempting to affect behavioural change through having patients talk about their difficulties.

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Active Imagination

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Activating our imaginal processes in waking life in order to tap into unconscious meaning of our symbols

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Archetypes

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Primordial images reflect basic patterns or universal themes common to us all that are present in the unconscious. (Children are innocent)

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Individualizations

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Unique calling in life that each person must fulfill by uniting their conscious and unconscious thoughts

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Introvert

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Needs privacy and space

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Extrovert

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Needs Sociability

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Thinking Function

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Sees cause and effect relations

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Feeling Function

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Has a sense of valuing positively or negatively

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Sensing Function

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Orientated toward the body and senses

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Intuitive

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Goes with hunches, impatient and impractical

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Latent content

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Relates to deep unconscious wishes or fantasies or hidden meaning of the dream

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Manifest Content

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Superficial and meaning less

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Threat simulation theory

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Dramas should be seen as defence mechanism. They help practice to respond to threatening events.

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Expectation fulfillment theory

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Dreaming serves a discharge to emotional arousals.

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Active- Synthesis Theory

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Dreams don’t mean anything

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Classical Conditioning

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Behaviours shaped by pairing of stimuli

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Law of effect

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If an association is followed by satisfaction, it will be strengthened. If it followed by annoyance, it will be weakened

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Law of Use

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The more association is used, the stronger it will become

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Law of disuse

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The longer an association is unused, the weaker it becomes

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Law of recency

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The most recent response is more likely to occir

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Humanistic Psychology

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Hopeful, constructive view of human beings and of their substantial capacity to be self determining

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Gestalt Therapy

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Focuses on present. Makes an individual be aware of their feelings

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Cognitive Psychology

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Study of mental processes such as attention, memory, perception, language use, and thinking

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Evolutionary Psychology b

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Seeks to develop and understand ways of expanding the emotional connection between individuals and the natural world

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