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What is motivation?

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Something that energizes behavior and directs it towards a goal

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What is instinct theory?

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says all behavior driven by instincts

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Problems with instinct theory?

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Motivation is biological and intrinsic and we participate in things that are not biologically innate

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What is drive-reduction theory?

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As drive state becomes strong, behavior is motivated

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What is a drive

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psychological state – an aroused state caused by physiological need

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what is a need?

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physiological state (hunger, water, etc)

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incentives

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positive/negative stimuli that can also motivate behavior

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Environmental cues

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Just after eating a big lunch, you find something that you want to eat

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What is the hierarchy of human needs

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There is an order to needs people are driven to meet All human behavior seeks to meet and satisfy these needs

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What are “d-needs”?

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Physiological needs (Strongest needs) Deficiency needs (1-4) – when we are deficient in these areas, there will be some indication

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What are the strongest needs

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Deficiency needs (1-4) – when we are deficient in these areas, there will be some indication

Physiological, safety, belongingness and love, and esteem

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Weakest needs?

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5&6: Self-actualization and self-transcendence

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Do Americans fulfill all of the needs

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Americans’ needs are only partially fulfilled: 85% fulfill physiological needs, 70% safety, 50% love, 40% self-esteem, 10% actualization

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How might Maslow’s theory be different cross-culturally?

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In the US, he believed that self-esteem is very important while it isn’t in other cultures

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How do the narratives from Nazi concentration camps support Maslow’s hierarchy?

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Fathers and sons fight “tooth and nail” over a piece of food

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What did researchers do in the semi-starvation study by Ancel Keys (1950)?

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Researchers gradually took away the food supply from 36 men

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How did Keys’ study provide support for Maslow’s hierarchy?

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Once the food supply was cut, they noticed that they rapidly lost weight, lost interest in everything that wasn’t food, lost ability to concentrate, they were obsessed with food because their d-needs were not being met

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Define self-control

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the ability to control ones emotions, behavior, and desires in order to obtain some reward or avoid punishment

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What is a cold motivational state

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complex, flexible, develop with age (learned over time)

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Hot motivational state

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When we are preoccupied with meeting a need; innate; simple and fast

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What conclusion can we draw about self-control with Mischel’s different studies?

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The participants were in hot motivational states. As adolescents…had less behavior problems in school, higher scores on coping with stress inventories, almost 200 points higher on college placement tests As adults…reported higher quality relationships, greater social competence, rated as more dependable workers

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What happens in the brain when we experience hunger?

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Increase in glucose

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What specific parts of the brain influence hunger (e.g., trigger hunger or slow/depress hunger)?

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The hypothalamus monitors appetite hormones

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What do experiments with animals manipulating these different areas show

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Found that many mice were missing leptin and therefore, once they were injected with leptin, they lost weight

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Does the mouse experiment work for humans

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Leptin shots don’t work for humans

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What hormone has been linked to obesity in rats and in some few humans?

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Leptin

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Social facilitation

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other people increase our natural behavioral tendencies

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Longitudinal research of social networks and likelihood of obesity (Christakis & Fowler, 2007)

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If your friend becomes obese, you are 57% more likely to become obese as well

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What is anorexia nervosa

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Excessive fear of gaining weight/becoming overweight Sometimes engage in excessive exercise May begin as a weight loss diet Usually adolescents; mostly female Fall significantly below normal body weight

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What is bulimia nervosa

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May also be triggered by weight loss diet Repeated (pattern of) binging and purging Late teens, early 20s; mostly female More common than Anorexia (NIMH, 2009)

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Which is the more common condition; Bulimia or Anorexia?

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Bulimia

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Cognition difference between anorexia and bulimia

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thoughts preoccupied by weight (anorexia) vs. sweets (bulimia)

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Psychological health difference between anorexia and bulimia

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those with bulimia more prone to depression

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Personality difference between anorexia and bulimia

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impulsivity (B), self-control (A), and achievement seeking (A)

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Contingent self-esteem

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specific areas of which self-esteem is derived Physical attractiveness, specifically thinness is one of the most valued characteristics

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Body image

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beliefs and feelings toward physical body

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emotion

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a brief feeling state that involves cognition, physiological responses, and behavioral reactions to events

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three components of emotion

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cognition, physiological responses, and behavioral reactions to events

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How does an emotion differ from definitions of mood or affect?

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Mood – an enduring, longer lasting feeling state Affect – a broad descriptor used to denote evaluation, can represent emotion or mood

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What is the Circumplex model?

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The model of emotions

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41
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What dimensions does Circumplex model cross

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Pleasant/unpleasant and activation/deactivation

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What division of the nervous system is activated in fight-or-flight?

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Sympathetic

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How does this system affect us (i.e., what are the physical effects)?

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Release stress hormones; release excess sugar into bloodstream

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With the exception of physiological arousal, what are various ways in which researchers can determine the emotions individuals are experiencing?

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Self-report – we can ask them Context – we can make inference Laboratory measures (electromyography)

45
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What is EMG?

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electromyography; detect brief changes in facial muscles

46
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What does corrugator activity indicate

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frowning muscle” Absence sometimes used to indicate positive emotion

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zygomatic activity?

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“smiling muscle” Combined with the orbicularis oculi

48
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the Duchenne smile

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The “true” smile

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What have researchers found regarding left/right sides of the brain and positive vs. negative emotions?

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Left side of the brain –positive emotion Right side of the brain – negative

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What does activity in the frontal lobes show? (Davidson, 2000; Harmon-Jones et al., 2002; Hecht, 2010)

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Depressed people have more right frontal lobe activity than non-depressed; less left frontal lobe activity compared to right Vs. Individuals who tend not to experience depressive states (e.g., alert infants, goal-oriented adults) show more left frontal lobe activity

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Currently, what is the best explanation for the above associations?

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Left side has more dopamine receptors

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James-Lange theory

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Physiological arousal experienced first, then we experience emotion Counter-intuitive

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Cannon-Bard theory

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Arousal not distinct enough to signal emotion and emotion happens too quickly Physiological arousal and emotion occur at same time

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Two-factor theory

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addressed cognition related to emotion Physiological arousal and cognition happen together, and then emotion is experienced Other theories didn’t give attention to this step

55
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Which theory or theories have received the most empirical support?

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Two factor theory and the Cannon and Bard theory

56
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What is a spill-over effect? Provide an example

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our physiological arousal from one event ‘spills over’ to influence emotional response to another event Example: physiological arousal from a run may intensify an emotion that comes later

57
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What did the study by Dutton and Aron (1974) do

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can physiological arousal increase feelings of attraction? Misattribution of arousal Iv – varied physiological arousal Dv – attractiveness; did they call?

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What did the study by Dutton and Aron (1974) find

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Men who were approached on the bridge were much more likely to call the woman

59
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Can emotion precede cognition?

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Yes, Priming studies reveal that we are influenced by emotions that are experienced on an unconscious level (i.e., “low-road”; Zajonc, 1980, 1984)

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Neuroscience evidence (Whalen et al., 2004); Emotions precede cognition

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Participants primed with fearful or happy eyes in fMRI Amygdala showed response despite no self reported awareness

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What is the facial feedback hypothesis?

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bodily reactions can influence emotional experience

62
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findings of Strack et al. (1989)

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When asked who was happiest, someone holding a pencil in their teeth was perceived to be happier than someone holding it in their hand and in their lips

63
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How did Ekman develop his emotion atlas?

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analyzed hundreds of films and photographs of people experiencing real emotion

64
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What six emotions did Ekman argue were primary?

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Surprise, anger, sadness, disgust, fear, and happiness

65
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Which emotional expression is most universal according to cross-cultural research by Ekman and colleagues?

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Combination of sadness and happiness

66
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What is emotion detection?

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ability to recognize emotion

67
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On average, how good are we in detecting emotion

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General performance is good We are particularly good for certain emotions

68
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Does detecting emotion differ with regard to positive or negative emotions?

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faster to detect single angry face than the single happy face

69
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How do prior experience, personality, and gender influence emotion detection abilities?

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Experience Physical abuse Personality Extraversion More introverted detect emotions better Gender Gender and “emotion literacy” Women

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What is happiness?

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a positive state of mind; also called subjective well-being

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What effects of happiness have been shown in experimental research?

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Flexible thinking, creativity, interest and exploration “Feel good, do good phenomenon”

72
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Describe the relationship between wealth and happiness

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If we don’t have any, we are miserable; once we have enough to be comfortable, increases in health/money matter less

73
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Describe two phenomena that have a large influence on our happiness

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Adaptation level and relative deprivation

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Adaptation level

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the tendency to judge stimuli relative to those we have previously experienced; means we will adapt quickly and the new thing will be the norm “We always recalibrate”

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Relative deprivation

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sense that we are worse off than others

76
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What is personality?

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a person’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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What is the contemporary approach to personality?

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Adult human personality reflects differences along five broad dimensions

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What do studies of personality and U.S. geography reveal? Specifically, describe a ‘Midwesterner’

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  • Personality traits tend to cluster in regions. Sociable, considerate, and traditional
79
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Who was Sigmund Freud?

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  • Not a psychologist by training
  • Was a physician and wanted to become a neurologist
  • Developed his own theory of personality
80
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What is conversion hysteria?

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  • Those with physical symptoms with no apparent biological cause
81
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How did Freud think about the unconscious in a unique way?

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  • He saw it as a reservoir of unacceptable resources. Where we thought of things that were too unacceptable to be said out loud
82
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What are three techniques Freud used in his psychoanalytic therapy?

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Free association

Dream interpretation

Slips of the tongue

83
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Free association

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  • relax, say whatever comes to mind
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Dream interpretation

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  • believed dreams were the “royal road to the unconscious”
85
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Slips of the tongue

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“faulty actions”; errors in speech, memory, or behavior

86
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What were the three interacting systems of personality according to Freud?

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Id

Ego

Superego

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Id

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basic drives; operates on pleasure principle (as soon as newborn baby needs something, it cries; present from birth)

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Ego

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operates on reality principle; conscious thoughts, perceptions, and memories; wants to meet needs but in reasonable manner (develops from 3-4)

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Superego

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what we “ought” to do; parents’ wishes, values, and morals; strive for perfection (forms around age 5)

90
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How was personality like an iceberg according to Freud?

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  • Different parts operate at different levels of awareness
  • Most of our personality is hidden like the majority of an iceberg is underwater
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What was the Oedipus complex? How was it resolved?

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  • Pertains to boys and says that boys obtain an unconscious sexual desire for their mother and this desire causes jealousy and hatred for the father and this was resolved by them identifying with their father
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What is a defense mechanism? Provide some examples of them

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  • created by the ego to help deal with anxiety about losing control; they each distort reality in different ways

Repression

Regression

Reaction formation

Projection

Rationalization

Displacement

Denial

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Repression

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underlies all; banish from consciousness

94
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Regression

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return to an earlier, safer time

95
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Reaction formation

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makes unacceptable feelings, desires, and impulses look like their opposite

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Projection

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attributes own unacceptable feelings, desires, and impulses to another

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Rationalization

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rationalize; self-justify

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Displacement

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  • directs unacceptable feelings away from a person or object that aroused the feelings and toward a more acceptable target
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Denial

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refusing to believe

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