Human Behaviour In The Social Environment Flashcards
What are the 8 stages of the family life cycle?
1) family of origin experiences
2) leaving home
3) premarriage stage
4) childless couple stage
5) family with young children
6) family with adolescents
7) launching children
8) later family life
What are the 5 stages of couple development?
1) romance
2) power struggle
3) stability
4) commitment
5) co-creation
What is the defence mechanism of acting out?
Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings
What is the defence mechanism of compensation?
Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies
What is the defence mechanism of conversion?
Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body functions, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system
What is the defence mechanism of decompensation
Deterioration of existing defences
What is the defence mechanism of denial?
Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behaviour, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable
What is the defence mechanism of devaluation?
Where the person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or other. (BPD)
What is the defence mechanism of dissociation?
A process that allows a person to split mental functions I a manner that allows them to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action (ie fugue states, amnesia, dissociative neurosis)
What is the defence mechanism of displacement?
Directing a wish, impulse, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation
What is the defence mechanism of idealization?
Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another
What is the defence mechanism of identification?
Universal mechanism whereby a person patterns them self after a significant other. Plays a significant role in personality development, especially superego development
What is the defence mechanism or identification of aggressor?
Mastering anxiety by identifying with a powerful aggressor to counteract feelings of helplessness and to feel powerful oneself. Usually involves behaving like an aggressor
What is the defence mechanism of incorporation?
Primitive mechanism in which psychic representation of a person is (or parts are) figuratively ingested
What is the defence mechanism of inhibition?
Loss of motivation to engage in (usually pleasurable) activity, avoided because it might stir up conflict over forbidden impulses (writing, learning, social shyness)