Exam 3 Prep

Question 1

What are libido and Thanatos?

Answer 1

Libido is life affirming energy. That need to satisfy and is pleasure oriented.

Thanatos is that need to destroy. Harm and aggression

Question 2

What is the pleasure principle? What component of mind is it linked to?

Answer 2

The desire principle is the desire for immediate gratification and is linked to the id.

Question 3

Define Id, Ego, and Superego

Answer 3

Id:
- The Id is primal urges we are born with.
Ego:
- The part of the mind that works with reality. Executive chef
Superego:
- The part of the mind that internalizes the values, morals, and ideals of society. Upholder

Question 4

What is the reality principle? What component of the mind is it linked to?

Answer 4

The reality principle is what we call a reality check. Linked with the Ed as the executive director

Question 5

What is terror management theory? How is it distinct from the death instinct

Question 6

What is the Thematic Apperception Test? What is it designed to measure

Answer 6

A test of black and white images to help us understand perception. Measures apperception.

Question 7

nAch

Answer 7

Need for achievement

• opportunities to engage in challenging pursuits, responsibilities for decisions. Attracted to business and creativity.
  Do better, be successful, work hard.

Question 8

nPow

Answer 8

Need for power. The desire to have an impact on others.
Politics, we need leaders with that. But they are also more likely to war under admin.

Question 9

nInt

Answer 9

Desire for warm and fulfilling relationships with others.

Question 10

nAff

Answer 10

Darker, more needy approach to nInt. Affiliation arousal. Negative social feedback and unsuccessful pledges to frat

Question 11

Who developed client centered psychotherapy and how does it work?

Answer 11

Rogers coined the term. He states that the client is never to be given the interpretation of their problem. The therapist tried to create the right conditions in which the client can change themselves.
- Geniune acceptance
- Unconditional positive regard
- Empathic Understanding

Question 12

What is the Rod and Frame Test?

Answer 12

Inn a dark room, an individual is asked to watch a red rod and detail how it’s positioned to when they’re rotated. It tests field dependence and field independence.

Question 13

What is the embedded Figures Test?

Answer 13

Large picture, small objects. It tests out field dependence field Independence.

Question 14

Field Independence

Answer 14

Relies on their own sensations, using information from their bodies.

Question 15

Field Dependence

Answer 15

Using external cues.

Question 16

Learned helplessness

Answer 16

When someone is so hurt and trapped in their trauma that even without the continuous stimulus of punishment and the presented opportunity of escape, they just can’t.

Question 17

What sort of attributions for negative events describe the “pessimistic explanatory style”

Answer 17

They emphasize internal, stable, and global causes. They internalize it, making it a them issue.

Question 18

What are accessible attitudes and how are they measured?

Answer 18

these states that some attitudes are stronger than others. States that strong attitudes predict behavior better and have some general functionality.

Question 19

Who is Erik Erickson and what was this stage theory?

Answer 19

Erickson was a psychologist who disagreed with Freud and believed the important periods of development occurred within a lifespan, not childhood.

There are 8 stages of development that we all pass through. And they begin at infancy and end at old age with despair vs. integrity.

Question 20

What is the strange situation and what are the 3 types attachment identified?

Answer 20

Strange situation is when a mom and her baby enters a room. The kid plays with toys as the mom is pulled away by a stranger. Coming back, their reaction to the mom is being videotaped and watched.

-Secure attachment
Endures the separation and explores. When mom returns, they are glad to see them. Confident mom would return.

• Avoidantly
  Infants who avoided the mom when she returned, did not give her much attention.

-Ambivalentlyy
Anxious about mom leaving, they cried. When mom returned, they showed both anger and desire. Approached mom but didn’t want to be held/

Question 21

What is sodium Amytal and what does it intend to do to people?

Answer 21

It is truth potion. Basically a sedative and an anti-anxiety medication.

Question 22

What are false memories and how might therapists contribute to them?

Answer 22

Humans have constructive memories, that our memories contribute to or influences in various ways that is recalled. Therapists can help hypnosis, suggestive interviewing, interpretation of symptoms as signs of past trauma, pressure abut authoritative figures to recall trauma, and/or dream interpretations. They foster the recollection of events that did not actually happen.