Human Behavior In The Enviornment Flashcards
A baseball player is thrown out of the game and kicks the water cooler in the dug out =?
The defense mechanism by which one redirects one’s emotions or impulses on a less threatening target then the one eliciting the response.
Displacement
51 y.o. Actress insists on playing a teenage rock star despite her matronly appearance =?
Denial
A child loosing an argument to a friend exclaims “you are so stupid” =?
The mechanism by which one places unacceptable impulses, thoughts, or characteristics that are being experienced into someone else.
Projection
When asked to share his feelings about his wife leaving him a man tells a story about how she met the other man-more a story about other ppl…no affect present =?
Defense mechanism focusing on intellectual events vs dealing w troubling emotions-removing self from the situation…
Intelectualization
Defense mechanism to deal with emotional conflict or stress by pointing out funny/ironic content of the situation =?
Humor
A loss of integration of the consciousness, memory, perception of self or surroundings, or sensory/motor behavior =?
Disassociation
40 year smoker gets dx with terminal lung cancer-blames tobacco co bc they deceived him into thinking it was safe despite several other warnings =?
Substituting a seemingly logical or rational reason for the real reason.
Rationalization
A wife found standing over her dead husbands body with a smoking gun-has no recollection of shooting him despite the evidence =?
Repression
Adopting the opposite belief for emotion because expressing the true one will cause anxiety or dissonance =?
Reaction formation
Dude attacked by a mugger with a knife and is so ashamed that he was so helpless and unable to defend himself he refuses to think of it years later =?
Consciously attempting to remove an anxiety producing memory or thought
Avoiding the truth by consciously forcing it out of consciousness
Suppression
As a child Mimi’s mother made her p-corn when she had a rough day. Her marriage is on the rx and she has found herself making p-corn up to 3x/day despite not eating it for a number of years =?
Regression
B describes her rape as if she is telling someone else’s story-there is no emotional content =?
The process of separating A traumatic event or emotional conflict from the attendant emotions. Memory of the event remains w/o the affect associated with it.
Isolation of affect
Brenda hated her brother but found that expressing this got her nothing positive. She became the spy for her mother helping her to catch his every misbehavior and earned mom’s praise =?
Finding a way to act out an unacceptable impulse in a socially acceptable manner
Sublimation
Believing or behaving as if one has special powers or abilities accompanied by the belief that one is superior to others =?
Dave is very obese and is teased my his coworkers but suffers this magnanimously as he knows he has the power to beat them all up if he desired to.
Omnipotence
Bob did not receive any significant encouragement from either of his parents. He now is involved on various organizations where he gains constant recognition =?
Focussing on meeting the needs of others to deal w emotional conflict or stressors-the Indv. feels good about service to others and is reinforced by their response.
Altruism
Camille’s newborn died of SID-she has exuded to never get pregnant again because she is such a bad mother.
Devaluation
Frank bragged that his therapist was so competent that he couldn’t help but be cured if his problem. His anxiety about his problem went away but his problem was still there =?
Handling emotional conflict or stressors by assigning exaggerated positive attributes to others.
Idealization
The process by which parental problems are passes down or projected on the children therefore, stunting the colds ability to differentiate. =?
FamilyProjection Process
Levels of differentiation and emotional processes projected onto children who then pass degrees of immaturity on through generations. Low levels of differentiation progress lower through generations.=?
Multigenerational transmission process
Unable to differentiate successfully a family member emotionally or physically distances or separates self from family/completely withdraws=?
Emotional cutoff
Theory by Walter Toman focused on Indv. who were raised in the same _____________ have similar traits.
Sibling position
A theory of human behavior that views the family as an emotional unit and uses systems thinking to describe the complex interactions in the unit. It is the nature of a family that its members are intensely connected emotionally. Often people feel distant or disconnected from their families, but this is more feeling than fact. Family members so profoundly affect each other’s thoughts, feelings, and actions that it often seems as if people are living under the same “emotional skin.” People solicit each other’s attention, approval, and support and react to each other’s needs, expectations, and distress. The connectedness and reactivity make the functioning of family members interdependent. A change in one person’s functioning is predictably followed by reciprocal changes in the functioning of others. Families differ somewhat in the degree of interdependence, but it is always present to some degree.
Bowen family systems theory
Assessment tool used to map the dynamic of a family. Squares =men , circles = women, horizontal lines = marriage, vertical lines = children. Indicates major turning points and difficult relationships.
Genogram.
Projecting what will happen or how things will turn out in the future
Fortune telling
