Christian Counseling/Psych Midterm

Question 1

3 methods of influence

list and define

Answer 1

1. Fear: seems to be effective only if the feared consequences are perceived as real
2. Identification: influencer is a model. youth leads that dress and talk like young people
3. Internalization: influencer is important; influence occur due to person is a trustworthy expert

Question 2

Cognitive Dissonance is:

Answer 2

an inner tension resulting from the attempt to hold two contrasting thoughts at the same time

Question 3

When Dissonance occurs the individual does what?

Answer 3

tries to relieve that tension by changing opinion, changing action, or adding new ideas to thinking

Question 4

Describe self fulfilling prophecy

Answer 4

the expecting of something to happens in our relations with others make the expected mor likely to happen

Question 5

Kohlberg has developed a theory of how:

Answer 5

children develop moral reasoning abilities

Question 6

What is group think?

Answer 6

a group fails to evaluate ideas adequately because of the desire for agreement

Question 7

Fowler developed a theory of what?

Answer 7

How faith develops

Question 8

Proverbs stresses what as a necessary part of a child’s environment?

Answer 8

discipline

Question 9

Lidz defines adolescence as what?

Answer 9

The period between puberty and physical maturity… the transition from childhood, initiated by the pre-puberty spurt of growth and impelled by the hormonal changes of puberty, to the attainment of adult prerogatives, responsibilities and self-sufficiency

Question 10

What are som common problems in the preschool years?

Answer 10

tantrums, obesity, bed wetting, soiling, nail biting, fears and sleep issues, depression and stress

Question 11

5 stages of Freud’s psycho sexual theory

Answer 11

oral 
anal
phallic
latency
genital

Question 12

how many stages of social and emotional development did Erikson identify?

Answer 12

eight

Question 13

Erikson defines the key issue in infancy is what?

Answer 13

trust verses mistrust

Question 14

What is the development focus of the toddler years?

Answer 14

Autonomy or shame

Question 15

Myers identified three areas of consideration in social psychology they are:

Answer 15

1. The way people think about one another
2. How they influence on another
3. How they relate to on another
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Question 16

Piaget says cognitive development occurs as children…

Answer 16

Discover and learn to apply rules that govern interaction with the environment

Question 17

School phobia can develop for what reasons?

Answer 17

over dependence up on mother
lack of exposure to other children
immaturity

Question 18

What are three common problems in the school years?

Answer 18

death
grandparents
handicaps

Question 19

Personality is what?

Answer 19

the ingrained pattern of behavior thoughts and feelings consistent across situation and time

Question 20

How many theories of personality are there?

Answer 20

4

Question 21

Psychoanalysis emphasized that individuals must work through what?

Answer 21

Conflicts

Question 22

The primary defense mechanism of histrionic personalities is to what?

Answer 22

deny their own sinful thoughts feelings wishes and or motives when they become obvious to those around them.

Question 23

T or F
Sigmund Freud believed that a person’s early interactions with his or her parents were the major factor that shaped an individual’s personality.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Carl Jung founded what?

Answer 24

analytical psychology

Question 25

T or F
Freud vents his frustration in his book Future of Illusion, declaring that religion can be compared with neurosis (mental illness)

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Who influenced Freud even more than his mother?

Answer 26

His nanny

Question 27

Tell me about William James

Answer 27

He linked religious experience with self-acceptance, concern for others, and peak experiences

Question 28

when the christian faith is allowed to transform believers completely what happens?

Answer 28

they become more Christ like and thus less prejudiced

Question 29

T or F
Schaefer emphasized the need to ground young children in the word of God and teach them shy we believe what we believe. We must communicate Christianity in a way that any given generation can understand.

Answer 29

True

Question 30

What are some problems that are spiritually based?

Answer 30

Lack of intimacy with God
the need to deal with a specific sin
demonic influence

Question 31

In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, each level of need requires some degree of ___________ before the person can move on to the next higher lever of need

Answer 31

fulfillment

Question 32

Allports theory of religious prejudice suggests that….

Answer 32

religious individuals are more prejudiced than non religious individuals