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exM 3 STUDY GUIDE Flashcards

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Anthropomorphism

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Portraying animal behavior in human terms

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UnConditioned reflexes (Pavlov)

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the reflexes associated with the direct influence of a substance on the receptors within the mouth

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Conditioned reflexes

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reflexes that only occur under 2 conditions:
specific situation, or a specific environment in which the reflex is formed

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Learning curve

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described the dynamic of learning being a habit. also indicates the connection between learning + the time it takes to learn

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the puzzle boxes

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Animals were placed in a puzzle box which was a specially designed cage where an animal could escape by tripping a latch mechanism that opened a door. It would take an animal many times to free itself from the box the first time, but this decreases thereafter

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Reflexology (BEKHTEREV)

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name of bekhterv’s theory, the central concepts of which were reflex and adaptation

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Objective Psych

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focus on behavior and physiological processes taking place within the brain and the nervous system

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Energy transformation

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the main mechanism by which to describe physical and biological processes

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George Romanes

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introduced the term comparative psych

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Tropism

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claims that physical, chemical, biological, and social forces influence organism

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what did watson do

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Described mental illness as habit disturbance; believed that the causes of both mental illness and deviance were in maladaptive habits

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how did Watson divide emotions

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into 3 categories: love, fear and rage

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what was the goal of jungian therapy

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Individuation: process of a person’s psychological growth and awareness of his or her own individuality

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castration anxiety

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irrational fear in men of loss of the genitals

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dreams

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wish fulfimllent containing manifest (the story) and latent contents (repressed desires)

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id

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the impulsive (and unconscious) part of our psyche which responds directly and immediately to basic urges, needs, and desires

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ego

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Making compromises between the id and the environment, Guided by the REALITY principle

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Superego

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moral guide with unconscious features that tells us what we should and should not do

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reality principle (freud)

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the realization of the demands of the environment and the adjustment of behavior to these demands

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pleasure principle (freud)

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the demand that an instinctual need be immediately gratified

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little hans

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They believed the source of his fear of horses was due to his attachment to his mom and viewed his dad as a threat for his mother’s love. But because it was his father he still had to love him. Afraid of acting on his anger, they thought he developed castration anxiety and related it to horses.

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rat man

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an obsessive patient whom Freud helped allow undesirable obsessions coexist in his mind

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compensation (adler)

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attempts to overcome the discomfort and negative experiences caused by a person’s inferiority feelings

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organ inferiority

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physical or psychological difficulties that become impediments

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social interest

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the desire to connect to others
A motivating source for development of personality

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Degeneration

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attempted compensation is unsuccessful and person falls out of normal course of life

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neurosis

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individual is sliding from comfortable to difficult times

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genius

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compensation brings success and a life free from pain and inferiority

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Gestalt psychology

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the whole is different than the sum of its parts

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gestalt therapy

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a therapeutic model, initial assumptions of which were based on the holistic principles of gestalt psych

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phi phenemonon

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the observable fact of pure motion when two images are projected in succession

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topology (lewin)

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the complex study of the properties of geometric figures and spaces in terms of their connectedness, continuity, and orientation

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Ziegarnik effect

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unfinished behavior is remembered better than accomplished actions

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hodological space

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a finely structured place; its parts are composed of certain regions; direction and distance within this space are defined as paths

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authoritarian

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the leader makes all the decisions

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democratic

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the leader makes decisions after consulting with the group

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Laissez-fare

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The leader does not try to exercise control over the group and gives group members only general instructions and advice

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Isomorphism

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the correlated phenomena that people experience and the underlying processes in the brain

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freud vs jung (3)

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-freud used psychoanalysis, jung used analytical psych/.dividulization
-jung had broader definition of libido
-jung believed unconscious played a greater role

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death wish

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repressed instinctual tendencesies that lead toward destruction

41
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who are the 3 principal fathers of gestalt psych

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max wertheiemer
wolfgang kohler
kurt koffka

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originator of gestalt theory

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max wertheiemer

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insight

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ability of seeing into a situation, understanding its “inner” nature; a sudden perception of useful relations in a given situation

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freuds views of women

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-inferior
-lives were dominated by sexual reproductive functions
-women were men without pensises which is why they had penis envy

45
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case of dora

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a traumatized 18 year old girl but because of her resistance she couldn’t comprehend solutions offered to her by her therapist

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what did lewis henry morgan argue

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argued that animals, like humans, possess many mental abilities, such as reason, creativity, and moral judgment.

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field theory (lewin)

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the acting and thinking individual is part of a dynamic field of independent forces such as geometry, topology, and psychology

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