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Which theorist, who worked with Freud created individual psychology?

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Alfred Alder

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Which theorist, who worked with Freud created analytic psychology?

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Carl Jung

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Eric Berne’s transactional analysis (TA) posits which 3 ego states:

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  • The child
  • The adult
  • The parent
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How did Freud feel someone could successfully resolve the Oedipus complex?

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By identifying with the aggressor (the person of the same sex)

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What do the Freudian’s refer to ego as?

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Some refer to it as the police officer which controls the impulses from the id and superego, it acts as a mediator

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What does the word eros mean to Freudians?

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Eros means love and to Freudians it means self-preservation

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What does the word Thanatos mean to Freudians?

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Thanatos means death, or death instinct

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Which 3 theorists are associated with the analytic movement?

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  • Freud
  • Jung
  • Alder
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Who was Little Albert?

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  • Involved in Watson’s famous case, where he an 11 month kid was conditioned to be afraid of furry objects
  • Experiment has been used to demonstrate the behavioristic concept that fears are learned rather than unconscious
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What are some differences between psychodynamic and classical psychoanalysis?

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  • Psychodynamic utilizes fewer sessions
  • Doesn’t utilize a couch
  • Is performed face to face
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What is the preconscious mind capable of?

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  • Bringing ideas, images and thoughts into awareness with minimal difficulty
  • Can access information from the conscious as well as the unconscious mind
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What is the ego ideal?

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The perfect self or ideal self that one judges oneself against

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What are ego defense mechanisms?

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An unconscious process which serves to minimize anxiety and protect self from severe id and superego demands

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According to Freudian’s what is the most important defense mechanism?

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Repression

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What is reactive formation?

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Occurs when a person cant accept a given impulse and thus behaves in the opposite manner. They act in the opposite way as they feel.

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What is the difference between suppression and repression?

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Repression is automatic or involuntary

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What is sublimation?

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When a person acts out an unconscious impulse in a socially appropriate way

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What is introjection?

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Takes place when a child accepts a parent’s, caretakers or significant other’s values as his or her own

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What is displacement?

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Displacing anger at someone else, even when you are really mad at something else

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What is projection?

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A person who engages in projection attributes unacceptable qualities of his or her self onto others

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What is identification?

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Results when a person identifies with a cause or a successful person with the unconscious hope that they will be perceived as successful or worthwhile

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Organ inferiority relates mainly to the work of…?

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Alfred Alder’s individual psychology

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Jung (founder of analytic psychology) said men operate on the _____ principle, while women operate on the _______ principle

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Logos (logic), eros (intuition)

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Who emphasized the drive/strive for superiority?

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Adler

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What did neo-Freudians emphasize that Freud did not?
Social factors
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Who are some of the main neo-Freudians?
Alfred Adler, Karen Horney, Erik Erikson, Harry Stack Sullivan
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The terms introversion and extroversion are associated with...
Jung
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The personality types of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator are associated with the work of...
Jung
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Who was the first to discuss the use of group therapy in private practice?
Rudolph Dreikurs
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Who emphasized the concept of social connectedness, where people wish to belong?
Adler
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What are paradoxical techniques?
Clients are instructed to intensify or purposely engage in maladaptive behavior
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What is an archetype?
- It is material that makes up the collective unconscious, which is passed from generation to generation. - Its a universal symbol that means the same thing to men and women (ex: cross)
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What is the psychoanalytic concept of symptom substitution?
If you merely deal with one symptom, another symptom will manifest itself, since the real problem is in the unconscious mind
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The word eclectic is most closely associated with....?
Frederick C. Thorne
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B.F. Skinner's reinforcement theory elaborated on....
Edward Thorndike's law of effect
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What does "law of effect" refer to?
Asserts that responses accompanied by satisfaction will be repeated, while those which produce unpleasantness or discomfort will be stamped out
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Classical conditioning relates to the work of....?
Ivan Pavlov
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Skinner's operant conditioning is also referred to as...?
Instrumental learning (remember, Skinner has an "i", just like instrumental)
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What does respondent behavior refer to?
Reflexes (remember respondent and reflexes both have "r")
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What's the difference between Pavlov and Skinner?
Pavlovian conditioning is respondent while Skinner's is instrumental/operant
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What is differential reinforcement of other behavior?
Positively reinforcing an individual for engaging in a healthy alternative behavior
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What's negative reinforcement?
Requires the withdrawal of an averse (negative) stimulus to increase the likelihood that a behavior will occur
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What's the difference between reinforcers and punishment?
All reinforcers raise or strengthen the probability that a behavior will occur; punishment lowers it
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What's the difference between positive and negative punishment?
- Positive punishment is said to occur when something is added after a behavior and the behavior decreases - Negative punishment takes place when a stimulus is removed following the behavior and the response decreases
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What's the memory device for remembering the US/UCS with the Pavlovian meat example?
In the U.S. we eat a lot of meat. In the experiment, the US (sometimes written as UCS) is the unconditioned stimulus, the meat
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What is the most effective time interval between the CS and US
0.5 or half of a second
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What is experimental neurosis?
When the process of differentiation becomes too difficult because the stimuli are almost identical
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When does extinction occur?
- It occurs when the conditioned stimulus (CS) is "not" reinforced. - The behavior will eventually extinguish when reinforcement is withheld
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John B Watson's name is associated with?
Little Albert
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What is a response/extinction burst?
When there is an increase in behavior before its eliminated
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What is a "chain?"
A sequence of behaviors in which one response renders a cue that the next response will occur
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What are behavior modification strategies based on?
Skinnerian principles (operant, instrumental)
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What is behavioral therapy based on?
Pavlovian principles (classical, respondent)
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What is a paradigm?
A choice
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Who created the 5 point scale to measure empathy, genuineness, concreteness and respect?
Robert Carkhuff
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What is an operant?
Any behavior which is not elicited by an obvious stimulant
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What is a respondent?
A consequence of a known stimulus
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What does an EEG measure?
It monitors brain waves
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What does an EMG measure?
It measures direct muscle feedback
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What does LPB stand for?
Low probability behavior
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What does HPB stand for?
High probability behavior
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What are the 2 classes of intermittent reinforcement?
Ratio and interval (based on time)
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Whats the most difficult intermittent schedule to extinguish?
Variable ratio
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Which is the most ineffective intermittent schedule?
Fixed interval
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What is a back up reinforcer?
It is an item or activity which can be purchased using tokens
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What is a form of behavioral sex therapy?
Sensate focus
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What is implosive therapy?
It is always conducted using the imagination and sometimes relies on symbolism
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What is flooding?
Occurs when the client is genuinely exposed to the feared stimulus
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What is logotherapy?
Healing through meaning, it is based on existentialism
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What is the purpose of existentialism?
Counselors help the client discover meaning in their life and focus on the here and now
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Name 3 existentialists
Frankl, Yalom, May
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What is ontology?
The philosophy of being and existing
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What does reality therapy incorporate?
- Control theory (aka choice theory) | - Often referred to as BCP (perception controls our behavior)
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How does reality therapy view behavior?
Our behavior is our best attempt to control our world to satisfy our wants and needs
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What is reality therapy based on?
The here and now
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What is "failure identity" according to reality therapists?
When someone dwells on past failures to reinforce negative self concept
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What is the focus when discussing the past in reality therapy?
Successful behaviors
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What is the final step of reality therapy?
That the client and counselor be persistent and never give up
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What is a bibliotherapy?
It is the use of books or writings pertaining to self improvement, can be a form of homework

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