Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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What is the superego?

A

Right and wrong consciousness, the part of your brain that tells you you “should” or “shouldn’t” do something

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2
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What is the ego?

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Everyday personality

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3
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What is the id?

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Pleasure center

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4
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What is compensation?

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an unconscious process in which a person makes up for his or her perceived shortcomings by strongly developing an asset that will strengthen his/her self-image

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5
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What is denial?

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inability to acknowledge an objectionable impulse, or unacceptable thought, face, behavior, or situation or its effects or importance

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6
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What is displacement?

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The release of feelings and impulses on a safe person or object as a replacement for the person that provoked the feelings

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7
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What is dissociation?

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Experiencing a break in the functions of memory, consciousness, and perceptions. Blocking an anxiety provoking event from the conscious mind.

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8
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What is identification?

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An attempt to increase self-worth by acquiring certain attributes and characteristics of an individual one admires

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9
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What is intellectualization?

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Expresses logic, reasoning, and analysis as a method to avoid all emotions

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10
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What is introjection?

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integrating the beliefs and values of another into one’s own identity

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11
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What is isolation of affect?

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separating a thought or memory from the feeling tone or emotion associated with it

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12
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What is passive aggressive?

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Indirectly expressing aggression, or resistance towards others

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13
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What is projection?

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Attributes one’s own unacceptable feelings or impulses to another person

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14
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What is rationalization?

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Attempting to make excuses to justify feelings or behaviors

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15
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What is reaction formation?

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Preventing unacceptable or undesirable thoughts or behaviors from being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors

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16
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What is regression?

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Responding to stress by retreating to an earlier level of development

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17
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What is repression?

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Involuntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one’s awareness

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18
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What is splitting?

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View others or situations as either all god or all bad and cannot incorporate mixed feelings

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19
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What is sublimation?

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Rechanneling of drives or impulses (sex or aggression) that are unacceptable into constructive activities

20
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What is suppression?

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The voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one’s awareness

21
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What is undoing?

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Symbolically negating an experience through a behavior or action

22
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What is Part I of the ABCX framework?

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Deals with factors determining the crisis: 4 parts - ABCX

23
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What is A?

A

the stressor event and interacts with B

24
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What is B?

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A interacts with the family’s resources or strengths, and this interacts with C

25
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What is C?

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C is the definition or meaning that the family attributes to the event. Very important on whether the event produces a crisis.

26
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What is Part II?

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The adjustment that follows a crisis and involves a period of disorganization, recovery, and reorganization

27
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What happens with disorganization?

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roles and patterns of the family change

28
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What happens with the period of recovery?

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learns new resources/gets additional resources to get back to level or functioning

29
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What happens with the period of reorganization?

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New level of functioning, may realize thy survived a difficult time and have new skills, abilities, and confidence

30
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What are characteristics of a crisis-prone families?

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Consistently perceive and define events and their situation as threatening & overwhelming, tend to perceive stressor events as crises, more vulnerable to crises because of limited resources and coping abilities, fail to learn from past crises

31
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What are characteristics of functional families?

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Able to see events as understandable and manageable, and time limited. Learn from past crises and use recently formed coping behaviors to deal with the situation, learn to enlarge their support network and resources

32
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What is part of the family subsystem?

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Individual members, dyads, triads, parental subsystem, and sibling subsystem

33
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What is the suprasystem?

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larger networks that includes extended family, school, church, community organizations

34
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What is the first phase of the family life cycle?

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Launching the single young adult

35
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What is the second phase of the FLC?

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joining families through couple formation

36
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What is the third phase of the FLC?

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Becoming parents and caring for young children

37
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What is the fourth phase of the FLC?

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parenting adolescents

38
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What is the fifth phase of the FLC?

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launching children and moving on

39
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What is the sixth phase of the FLC?

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experiencing later life

40
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What are transitions during the family life cycle?

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birth of a child, employment changes, retirement

41
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What are interruptions during the family life cycle?

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serious illness, death, divorce

42
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What is boundary function?

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Clear individual boundaries
Clear generational boundaries
Clear family boundaries

43
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What is communication function?

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Straight, clear messages
No manipulation
Safe expression of positive and negative feelings

44
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What is emotional-supportive function?

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mutual positive regard
deals with conflict
uses resources for all family members
allows growth for all family members

45
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What is socialization function?

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Children growing and developing in a health pattern
Mutual negotiation of roles by age and ability
Parents feeling good about parenting
Spouses happy with each other’s role behavior

46
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What are healthy family qualities?

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Commitment to the family
Demonstrates appreciation to family members
Communication
Time spent together
Spiritual wellness
Ability to cope with stress