Histories, Theories and Practices Flashcards

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what year did modern psychology form

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1878

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What year did psychodynamic psychology emerge

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1874

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what year did organizational psychology emerge

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1910

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what year did clinical psychology emerge

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1907

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what year did counseling psychology emerge?

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1900

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what year did behavioural psychology emerge?

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1900

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what year did developmental psychology emerge

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1900

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what year did educational psychology emerge

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1900

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culture informs and influences individual’s

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  • understanding of health and wellbeing
  • mental processes and behaviours
  • expression and understanding of emotion
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key concepts and markers used to identify and thus include/exclude people from group belonging or participation

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age, gender, religion, race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, (dis)ability

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what is a culture

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  • culture is complex and embedded in many aspects of life and living
  • culture is an expression of human adaption to an environment
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Phinney (1996) 3 aspects of ethnicity have psychological importance

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  • ethnic groups share a distinguishable set of cultural values, communications, and behaviours
  • ethnic group members share a subjective sense of belonging (identity component)
  • experiences associated with minority status, including powerlessnesss, discrimination and prejudice
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phenotype

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physical appearance

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enculturation

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the process of learning about and being indoctrinated into a culture

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ethnocentrism

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positivism

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  • seeking universal truths
  • yes or no
  • generalisation
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Whiteness in Psychology

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  • descriptor or identifier
  • it is an experience that involves receiving unearned privileges based on race
  • ideology, social structure, or worldview that is based on a system of exploitation based on the idea of white supremacy
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Model for developing a white identity

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Stage 1 - pre-exposure
Stage 2 - Conflict
Stage 3 - Antiracism
Stage 4 - Immersion
Stage 5 - Autonomy

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stage1 pre-exposure

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  • racial identity unexamined. colour-blind
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Stage 2 conflict

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  • Increased knowledge about racial knowledge due to education or interaction with members of a minority group
  • Conflict between wanting to conform to white norms and wanting to uphold nonracist values
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Stage 3 Antiracism

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  • strong pro minority group stance, guilt over their white identity
  • difficulty dealing with people with racist values, avoidance sometimes results
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Stage 4 Immersion

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  • Learns about institutionalised nature of racism and impacts on oppressed
  • starts to unpack myths about people of colour and work with other whites to challenge racism
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Stage 5 Autonomy

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  • freed self from racism and denial of white identity
  • flexible view of self and own racial group does not see others as psychological threat
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what worldview and culture does psychology hold?

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  • predominantly western view of the nature of humans and the best way to generate new knowledge
  • research conducted to discover truth
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Indigenous psychologies
- Psychological models that reflect local customs, experiences and beliefs - reconceptualisation of Brofenbrenner's ecological model - validation of indigenous cultures and histories
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Reconceptialisation of Brofenbrenner's ecological model
- variation on the model, tailoring it to non-western values and culture
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constructionist approach
- this means that humans actively construct their environments - beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviours are created by people
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cultural competence
requires more than becoming aware of practicing tolerance - ability to identify and challenge one's own cultural assumptions, values, and beliefs. - engage in process of developing and practicing appropriate, relevant and sensitive interventions.
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cultural awareness
- taking responsibility for own biases, stereotypes, values and assumptions - need to develop ways of working that take into account client's historical cultural and environmental contexts
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cultural respect
- involves the recognition, protection and continued advancement of the inherent rights, cultures and traditions of Aboriginal peoples
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Cultural safety
- extends beyond cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity - developed in nursing context in Aotearoa/New Zealand - Cultural safety is an outcome - Requires critical reflexivity
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Elements that enhance cultural competence
3 Components - Attitudes/beliefs - Knowledge - Skills
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Sue's (2001) multidimensional model of cultural competence
- race and cultural specific attributes - components of cultural competence - the foci of cultural competence
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Critically reflective practice
Critical reflexivity as central to culturally competent practice, which involves - recognising and critically engaging our own subjectivities in the context of relating across cultural boundaries - examining our own social and cultural identities and the power and privilege we have because of these identities
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problematising cultural competence
- failure to recognise diversity within racialised groupings - oversimplification of culture into systematized lists of facts and presumed values
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Psychoanalytic period
1880-1920
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Freud was born?
1856
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Hysteria
- broad range of symptoms - mostly diagnosed in women
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free association
- say whatever comes into one's mind - theoretically used to bring unconscious thoughts to conscious
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Fanny Moser
- treated by Freud - symptoms of tics, hallucinations, odd noises, nightmare - free association
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resistance in psychoanalysis
- the inability to remember traumatic events
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Ego
Psychological component
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Superego
Social component
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ID
biological component
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Key freudian defense mechanisms
- occur when the ego cant satisfy the id and superego at the same time - repression - regression - denial - when defenses fail, the patient experiences neurosis
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downfall of psychoanalysis
- explains but does not predict - cannot be tested - mostly developed using himself and his patients - reliant on case studies
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legacy of psychoanalysis
- popularised the talking therapy - helped us understand that mental health was related to thought/mind/feelings - some concepts (defense mechanisms) still used broadly within psychology - some psychologists still take a psychodynamic approach, which draws from Freud's work
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Defense mechanisms
- repression - reaction formation - denial - sublimation - displacement - projection - rationalization - regression - intellectualization - identification - suppression
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Repression
- pulling into the unconscious
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Reaction formation
taking the opposite belief because the true belief is unacceptable and causes anxiety
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Denial
arguing against or refusing to acknowledge an anxiety provoking stimulus- doesnt exist
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Sublimation
acting out/channelling unacceptable impulses in a socially acceptable way
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Displacement
Taking out/transferring feelings that causes anxiety to a less threatening target
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projection
placing or attributing your own unacceptable impulses/feelings onto another
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rationalization
supplying a 'logical/rational' reason to cover up the true reasons for actions
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regression
returning to a previous stage development
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intectualization
avoiding unacceptable emotions by focusing on intellectual aspects
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identification
the unconscious modelling of oneself upon another person
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Suppression
pushing into the unconscious
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behaviourists
- Ed Thorndike - Ivan Pavol
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Ed Thorndike
- chick maze experiment - chicks had to find food water and other chicks - they got better at it
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John Watson
- mr behavioursim - had difficulty expressing his emotions - little Albert experiment - little interest in the mind; only what is observable - felt psychoanalysis could not predict behaviour - no difference between man and animal
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Behaviourism
- humans are like machines
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B.F Skinner
- neobehaviourist (trying to formalise the laws of behaviour) - operant conditioning - how does this differ from classical conditioning? - Skinner box - Walden Two - Skinner's fairly unsuccessful novel
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Critical Psychology
- no universal definition of critical psychology two main perspecctives - critical approach to psychology - offers a critique of mainstream psychology - critical psychology - new type/form of psychological practice
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Critical psychology key principals
gaze - positioning those outside discipline as other Reductionism - focus on individual focus on positivism interpretation - value laden 'psychologist knows best' neutrality - 'fake neutrality' in framing of research
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crit psych developed from different standpoints
- diverse socio-cultural contexts - connections with anti-racist and feminist research - important in raising awareness of different forms of oppression
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Crit psych 'new' type of psychological practice
- alliances - between academics, professionals and service users - culturally attuned practice - provide resourfces to overcome alienation/ objectification of participants/clients - action research methodology - standpoint - importance of reflexivity
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Gender as a social determinant of health and wellbeing
- occupations are gender typed - personality and skills are gender typed and/or sex typed; women are seen as caregivers - exposure to family and sexual violence
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