Chapter 3 (E1) Flashcards
What is defined as the forces at work within a family that produce particular behaviors or symptoms. The way families live and interact with one another.
Family dynamics
What is the definition for treatment of the family as a whole?
Family therapy
A type of talk therapy that focuses on the complexity and inner workings of the mind is called?
Psychotherapy
Who is the “Father of Psychiatry”
Sigmund Freud
Who is an Australian neurologist that claims the most psychological disturbances are the result of early trauma or incidents that are often not remembered or recognized?
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud identified 3 layers of mental activity. What are they?
The conscious
The preconscious
The unconscious
What is the conscious mind with Freuds 3 layers of mental activity?
Current awareness
What is the preconscious mind with Freuds 3 layers of mental activity?
Mind that lies below the surface.
Easy accessible with conscious effort
What is the unconscious mind with Freuds 3 layers of mental activity?
Where our primitive feelings, drives, and memories reside (stay in one place permanently)
Freuds definition of “Id” is what?
Pleasure seeking, impulsive part of our personalities that lurks in the unconscious mind.
Freuds definition of “ego” is what?
The problem solver and reality tester that navigates the outside world.
Freuds definition of “superego” is what?
The moral component of the personality
What is the definition that is used to search for forgotten and repressed memories?
Free association
Feelings of a therapist’s personal thoughts and feelings onto a client.
Countertransference
What is the definition for the patient projecting intense feelings onto the therapist?
Transference
A hands on system in which therapists actively guide and challenge maladaptive behaviors and distorted views?
Interpersonal therapy (IPT)
Who investigated classical condition and what is it?
Ivan Pavlov
Involuntary behavior and reflexes can be conditioned to respond to neutral stimuli
Who conducted a research that voluntary behaviors are learned through consequences of positive or negative reinforcement?
B. F. Skinner (1938)
Learned responses that can be reversed by first promoting relaxation and then gradually facing a particular anxiety producing stimulus is called?
Systemic Desensitization
A therapy used to eradicate unwanted habits by associating unpleasant consequences with them?
Ex: Antabuse is a medication that when you ingest alcohol you become very ill.
Aversion therapy
Part of the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs:
At the top, refers to the drive to go beyond the personal self?
Self-Transcendent
A therapy based on both cognitive and behavioral therapy. Seeks to modify negative thoughts that lead to dysfunctional emotions and actions?
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
Unique assumptions about ourselves, others, and the world around us is called?
schemata
What is the primary biological treatment for mental disorders?
Psychopharmacology
What is an effective treatment therapy for severe depression and other conditions?
Procedure that uses electrical current to induce a seizure.
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Surgically implanted electrodes stimulating a specific area of the brain?
Deep brain stimulation
A higher frequency electrical pulse instead of electricity to induce a seizure is called?
Magnetic seizure therapy (MST)
An electromagnetic device to deliver a rapidly pulsed magnetic field to the cerebral cortex to activate neurons is?
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
A Swiss psychologist that concluded that cognitive development was a progression from primitive awareness to complex thought and responses
Jean Piaget
Who is a child psychoanalyst that described development as occurring in 8 different life stages?
Erik Erickson
Gathering of 2 or more people who share a common purpose?
Group
Type of leader:
Exerts control over the group?
Autocratic leader
Type of leader:
Supports extensive group interaction in the process of problem solving?
Democratic leader
Type of leader:
Allows the group members to behave in any way they choose and does not attempt to control the group?
Laissez-faire leader
Therapeutic milieu is also called?
Healthy environment
When a relationship of 2 people is stressful and unstable, a 3rd person comes in to stabilize the system.
This is called?
Triangulating
A form of displacement in which a family member is blamed for another family members distress.
This is called?
Scapegoating
A no-win situation.
This is called?
Double bind
