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Exam 4 Flashcards

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Personality definition

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An individual’s unique patter of: thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that persist over time across situations

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Personality definition focuses on:

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Unique differences (diversity)
Stable, enduring differences (although change in stability-change)

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Biological/genetic influences

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Temperament, traits influenced by genes (nature)

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Environmental (experience) influences

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Learning, parents, peers, situation, chance events influence traits (nurture)

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Sociocultural influences

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Norms influence what traits are valued, notion of “self/personality”, shape behaviors (diversity)

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Psychodynamic influences

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Unconscious dynamics influence motives, guilts, conflicts, and defenses

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Humanist approaches influence

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People can exercise free will to determine who they will be (change)

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Objective personality tests

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Standardized tests
Minnesota Multiphasic personality inventory-2 (over 550 questions)
Measures such things as social introversion, depression, schizophrenia, etc.
Strength: relatively easy to administer and score/analyze results
Limitations: rely entirely on self-report; familiarity with the test affects responses

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Projective personality tests

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Use of ambiguous stimuli
Rorschach test (inkblots)
Thematic apperception test (TAT; pictures)
Strengths: difficult to fake “correct” response . Responses are not random. Believe responses uncover unconscious aspects of personality, which are “projected” onto the ambiguous stimuli, that cannot be detected by objective tests
Limitations: difficult to score/analyze responses; greater subjectivity in interpretation- who decides what the person’s reports mean?

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Personality theories attempt to explain: personality development

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How personality is formed (e.g., born with OR learned is acquired? if acquired, how so?)

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Personality theories attempt to explain: Personality structure

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What personality is made up of (e.g., id, ego, and superego OR traits?)

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Personality theories attempt to explain: motivation

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“Why” people behave the way they do (e.g., conscious causes OR unconscious causes of behavior?)

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Personality theories attempt to explain: personality change

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Is change possible? As a function of time (growing older)? Or through therapy? (stability-change)

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Psychopathology and psychological health

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Unhealthy, maladaptive personality
Healthy, adaptive personality

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Freud’s theory

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See behavior as the result of psychological dynamics within the individual: much of mental life is unconscious. Mental processes can be in conflict. Personality patterns start in childhood experiences. Personality involves learning to self-regulate

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Freud’s psychosexual stages

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Oral stage: first year; mouth-oral gratification; weaning
Anal stage:2-3 years; anus; toilet training
Phallic stage: 3-5/6 years; genitals; oedipus (in boys) and electra (in girls) complexes-successful resolution is the child’s identification with the same sex parent
Latency stage:5/6-adolescence; sexual interests repressed; focused on other things
Genital stage: adolescence to adulthood; genitals; reawakening of sexual desires

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Erogenous zones (Freud)

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Pleasure regions of the body

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Overcoming fixation at each stage

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Developmentally stalling at a particular stage, which influences adult personality later in life (e.g., anal retentive personality type).

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Personality structure

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Conscious: ideas, thoughts, and feelings of which we are aware
Preconscious: material that can be easily recalled
Unconscious: well below the surface of awareness

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Ego

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self reality principle

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Superego

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Ego ideal
moral guardian

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ID

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Pleasure principle
unconscious urges and desires

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Motivation psychic determinism

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Belief that there are causes for our behaviors, thoughts, feelings- they do not occur randomly or by chance
Causes- early childhood experiences, often of a mind sexual sort, hidden within the unconscious mind

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Freudian slips

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Say or do one thing when meant to say or do another. Unconscious desires are being expressed causing the slip/mistake

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Motivation opposing instincts

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Life (Eros; libido; sexual) and death (Thanatos; aggressive) instincts

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Psychopathology

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Result primarily from early, unconscious childhood sexual conflicts that are real or imagined

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Personality change

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Psychoanalysis: dream interpretation and free association- the “talking cure”- to get at deep, hidden, and emotionally troubling unconscious conflicts, memories, wishes, and urges

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Jung Collective Unconscious

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The part of the unconscious that is inherited and common to all members of a species. Experiences we have in the world are the result of these inherited, inner predispositions to experience that world in particular ways

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Jung archetypes

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Structural components of the collective unconcious. They are universal thought forms, associated with emotion, that create images or visions. Examples: ideas of hero and villain, supreme deity, wise seer, mother. Thus, see reference to these throughout the history of the human race, including today in our culture

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Jungs personality types

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Extravert: focuses on external world; very social; energized by social situations and activities, being around many other people
Introvert: focuses more on own thoughts, feelings, not very social; energized by solitary pursuits, time spent alone or perhaps with a good friend

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Cain

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Introverts… celebrate your introversion and recognized all you have to offer in the world/ Sometimes, the strongest voices are the quietest

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ambiverts

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people who are in the middle of intraverts and extraverts

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Adler

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Feelings of inferiority: natural for people to have such feelings. Consider how vulnerable and dependent on others we are as infants/children. Can be positive and lead to positive growth and development, but can also lead to negative, maladaptive complexes
Superiority complex: believe you are better than others
Inferiority complex: fixation on feelings of personal inferiority that results in emotional and social paralysis

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Horney

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Proposed that nonsexual factors play a larger role than sexual ones (contrary to Freud)
Womb envy: men envious of women-can bear/nurse offspring
Neurotic trends: negative coping strategies that help people deal with emotional problems but result in loss of independence and the following negative personality types- submissive, aggressive, detached

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Erikson’s 8 stage theory

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Life span approach: personality develops across all stages of life
Each stage is associated with its own crisis that must be resolved

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Five factor model

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Openness: to experience/culture/intellect
Conscientiousness: reliable, dependable, ethical
Extroversion: outgoing, talkative, assertive
Agreeableness: kind, trusting, compassionate
Neuroticism: anxious, tense, unstable

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Our behavior is a result of the interaction of:

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Our cognitions (thoughts), learning, and environment, especially the social environment

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Humanistic theories

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Emphasizes the potential for growth and positive change

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Maslow

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Hierarchy of needs:
Lowest: physiological (food, water, sex)
safety (security/stability)
belonginess/love
esteem
highest: need for self actualization

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Self actualization

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Achieving the highest human potential

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Rogers

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Fully functioning person
Helped along with unconditional positive regard, which is good for children
Conditional positive regard-will love one’s child only if he or she behaves in a certain way.
Conditions of worth on the child-> not good for children

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Trait theories

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Traits: dimensions or characteristics on which people differ in distinctive ways that guide their behavior in various situations

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Bandura

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Expectancies guide our evaluation of a situation

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Self efficacy

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an attitude that our effort will be successful- we can do what needs to be done, accomplish what needs to be accomplished

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Rotter

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Locus of control: an expectancy about whether reinforcement, good or bad experiences, success or failure in life are under internal or external control
Internal: one can control his or her own fate
External: one’s fate is determined by chance, luck, or the behaviors of others

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Know this general point

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Each of the above theoretical perspectives has made its contributions to our understanding of personality, but each has its limitations

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Optimistic

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Appear to be more careful in their choices
serves as a protective factor-being optimistic has positive effects on physical and mental health

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Pessimistic

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Higher risk taking behavior
negative effects on physical and mental health

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Social psychology

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Scientific study of how people think about (ex. stereotypes), influence (ex. persuasion), and relate to (ex. aggression/loving) one another

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Norms

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A culturally shared idea or expectation about how to behave
An example of social influence

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powerful examples for social influence

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Jonestown massacre and Heaven’s Gate cult

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4 major points of emphasis within social psychology

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  1. Power of the situation: to influence behavior (external factors)
  2. Power of the person: to influence behavior (internal factors)
  3. Power of cognition: to influence behavior (our attitudes and beliefs)
  4. Power of application: apply our understanding of social psychology to address prejudice, racism, etc. to improve social relations
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Milgram’s obedience to authority studies

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the four major points are represented

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Lewin’s study of leadership styles

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Lewin’s view that behavior= F(person, situation), which is read as “behavior is a function of the person and the situation.” Both influence behavior

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Conformity and Asch’s line-length study of conformity

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People conform to be liked by others and to be “right or correct” in their behavior

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The results of Lewin’s study of leadership-Which style is best?

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Democratic

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What did Milgram’s shock study demonstrate?

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Blind obedience is not limited to the fascists mentality. It is part of the basic human condition brought out by situational forces

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What is the fundamental attribution error?

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The tendency people have to overemphasize personal characteristics and ignore situational factors in judging others behavior

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What did Zimbardo’s Standford Prison study demonstrate?

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We all have the capacity to be good or bad. Waiting for the right or wrong situation to bring it out.

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What did Jane Elliot’s brown eyed/blue eyed classroom demonstrate?

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Prejudice and discrimination

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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Prolonged vague but intense fears that are not attached to any specific object or circumstance

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Social anxiety disorder

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Social phobia-excessive, inappropriate fears connected with social situations or performances in front of other people. So called “performance only” type for people who fear only performance situations

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Agoraphobia

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The anxiety is out of proportion to the actual danger or threat in the situation, which lasts for a minimum of 6 months (rules out temporary fears)

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PTSD

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Traumatic, life-threatening event, leading to reexperiencing of the trauma, increased psychological arousal/anxiety, avoidance, and persistent negative alterations in cognitions and mood

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Major depressive disorder

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Disturbances in emotion, behavior, cognition, and body function. Marked loss of interest or pleasure in nearly all activities. Can lead to suicide

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Diathesis (vulnerability)- stress model of depression

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Individual vulnerabilities (biological/genetic factors-nature) interact with external stresses or circumstances (environmental factors-nurture) to produce mental disorders

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Bipolar disorder

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Episodes of both depression and mania, which is excessive euphoria-extremely talkative, easily distracted, make bad decisions (e.g., spends money excessively, gets into financial trouble)

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Antisocial personality disorder

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Antisocial behavior (lying, stealing, manipulating others, violence); lack of guilt, shame, empathy

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Borderline personality disorder

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Marked instability in self-image, mood, and interpersonal relationships

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Narcissistic personality disorder

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Grandiose sense of self-importance. Believe they are extraordinary, need constant attention and admiration, display a sense of entitlement, and tend to exploit others. Given to envy and arrogance, lack the ability to really care for anyone else

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Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personalities)

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Controversial disorder; two or more distinct personalities, each with its own name and traits, either self-reported or reported by others. Includes recurrent gaps in recall for traumatic and everyday events

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Schizophrenia

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Severe disorders in which there are disturbances of thoughts (delusions), communications (disorganized speech), emotions, and/or presence of hallucinations. No longer identify different types, but rather uses the “dimensional approach to rating severity for core symptoms.”

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Anorexia nervosa

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Intense fear of weight gain (and persistent behavior that interferes with weight gain) and a distorted body image

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Bulimia Nervosa

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Binges of eating followed by self-induced vomiting at least once weekly

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Binge-eating disorder

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Binges of eating without the self-induced vomiting (at least once weekly over the last three months)

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Biopsychological perspective

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Causes of psychological disorders are biological (bio), cognitive (psycho), and environmental (social). Thus, approaches to treatment/therapy are likely to be of various types and with more than one approach used for a particular disorder

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Biological treatments

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Drug therapies, shock therapy, and neurosurgery

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Behavioral therapies

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Using classical and operant conditioning principles/procedures to treat disorders. Examples include systematic desensitization/exposure therapy, aversion therapy, token economy, and modeling

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Cognitive therapies

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Change irrational, unproductive ways of thinking to produce a change in behavior and treat disorders. Examples include stress-inoculation therapy, Ellis’ rational-emotive behavior therapy, Beck’s cognitive therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy

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Family therapy

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Each member forms part of a larger, interacting system, thus, treatment involves the family, not just the individual with the disorder. Changing family behavior can benefit all individuals

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Couples therapy

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Focus on resolving conflicts, improve problems of communication and interaction

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Self-help groups

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People with a common problem meet and provide mutual support to one another. Can be effective, as well as inexpensive

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Theraputic alliance

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The bond of confidence and mutual understanding established between therapist and client that allows them to work together to solve the clients problem

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Attitudes

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important because they often influence our behavior

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Dissonance

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Experienced as unpleasant psychological tension in such situations
Change one’s attitude to reduce dissonance

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Interpersonal attraction

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Is influenced by proximity, physical attractiveness, and similarity

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Strategies for reducing prejudice and discrimination

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Improving group contact-one on one contact with members of other groups that cooperate to achieve shared goals, provided there is equal status between the groups

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Mob behaviors

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Influenced by deindividuation-people can feel anonymous in a group, leading them to feel less responsible as individuals

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Altruistic behavior

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Helping others without personal gain and the bystander effect-less likely to offer help to someone when the others than when alone

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Group polarization

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Group discussion on a topic that people disagree on leads people to become more extreme in their attitudes-greater disagreement because of the discussion

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Social loafing

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When people do not work as hard, they “loaf” when working as part of a group

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Groupthink

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Ignore alternatives, do not criticize group consensus, do not want to speak up and go against the group

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Definition of mental illness

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is relative not absolute

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Historical views

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Late 18th century, disturbances were due to demonic possession, “treatment” was often imprisonment, not real treatment; Pinel and Dix established humane treatments

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Prevalence

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Frequency of disorders over a period of time, for example, a year

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Insanity

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a legal term not a psychiatric term

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Stigma

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collection of adverse and unfair beliefs about people with mental illness that leads them to feel shame, become isolated, and keeps them from reaching out for help that is available

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Define psychological disorders

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Society- does behavior violate social norms (unusual, rare)?
Individual- does behavior make me happy/unhappy (emotional distress/discomfort)?
Mental health professional- is behavior maladaptive (self-defeating, dangerous) or functional (good, beneficial)?

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Definition of abnormal behavior

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relative not absolute
behavior that is rare or dysfunctional, causes personal distress, or deviates from social norms

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Late 18th century perspective

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Unusual behaviors were attributed to supernatural powers. Emotional disturbances were sign of demonic possession

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Biological model cause of disorders

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Biochemical/physiological imbalances stemming from hereditary/genetic factors (psychiatry and the interdisciplinary field of neuroscience)

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Psychoanalytic model cause of disorders

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Unconscious internal conflicts

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Cognitive-behavior model cause of disorders

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Faulty/maladaptive/irrational/negative cognitions (beliefs) about self, world, and future, along with maladaptive ways of behaving, resulting from learning experiences

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Diathesis-stress model cause of disorder

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Also known as the vulnerability-stress model
Combination of biological predisposition to develop a mental illness (nature) and negative life experiences and psychological stresses (nurture)

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Systems model (biopsychosocial model)

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Same as diathesis-stress model but also considers social factors that contribute to psychological disorders. Emotional problems as “lifestyle diseases” as heart disease is viewed today

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Prevalence of disorders

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approx.= 18% (1 in 5 people) of the population
Serious mental illness approx.=4 %

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