Intro To Psychology Flashcards

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Roles of a psychologist

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  • Conduct research
  • Counselling
  • Assessing and treating people with mental disorders
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Types of psychology

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Community - works with individuals, community groups and organisations to help improve health and welfare of people in the community
Forensic - works with people in legal and criminal justice settings
Organisational - helps people in work places

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How to become a psychologist

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  • complete VCE or equivalent
  • complete 4 year bachelor degree
  • masters degree (2 yrs) - PhD (3 yrs) OR probation: 2 years work supervised
  • register with PRBV
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Responsibilities of a psychologist

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Competence - only deal with cases they are specialised in
Privacy & Confidentiality - respect the privacy of the client
Propriety - not aloud to exploit or take advantage of their client. That them with dignity

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Sleep

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A state of conscientious where the individual is unresponsive to external factors

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Why we sleep

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  • Our body needs to rest to function properly
  • Repair damaged brain cells
  • Conserve our energy for the day
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REM

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  • Rapid eye movement
  • Fluctuated heart rate
  • Fluctuated breathing rate
  • High & fast brainwave activity
  • Fully relaxed voluntary muscles
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NREM

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  • Very little eye movement
  • Slow & regular brainwave activity
  • Regular heart rate
  • Regular breathing rate
  • Some movement of voluntary muscles
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No sleep

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Hallucinations

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How much sleep do we need

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Infants (0-2 weeks) : 16-18
Babies (14-15 weeks) : 14-15
Young children (3-5 years) : 10-12
Teenagers : 9-10
Adults : 7-8
Elderly : 6-7
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Sleep talking

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The sleeper talks in their sleep. Generally, they don’t make much sense.

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Sleep walking

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A sleep disturbance where people walk and carry out daily activities while they are asleep

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Sleep eating

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The sleeper binge eats during sleep. They have no recollection of it on waking

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REM Behaviour Disorder

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  • Sleepers do not reach muscle atonia (paralysis)
  • Generally act out dreams while lying done.
  • Thrashing around of their limbs, can cause injury to person or sleep partner
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Sleep paralysis

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  • Opposite to REM Behaviour Disorder to a certain extent.
  • On waking from REM suddenly your muscles do not come out of atonia.
  • Can be very scary.
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What are dreams?

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  • Very personal and private experience.
  • Everyone dreams and this occurs 4-5 times a night. However, not everyone remembers their dreams.
  • Most dreams occur during REM sleep (90%)
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What happens when we dream?

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  • We see vivid images, faces, laces and colours.
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REM dreams

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  • Tend to follow a story line
  • More likely to be remembered
  • May include aspects of events in your life
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Do dreams have meanings?

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Some people say certain things can mean a certain thing (king/queen = parents) however a cigarette may just be a cigarette and nothing else.

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Freuds Psychoanalytic Theory

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  • Do not wish to access our unconscious state of mind
  • While awake negative emotions are blocked by our ego
  • While asleep our ego drops
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Problem Solving Theory

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  • Dreams have a purpose and help solve problems

- Studies show that people who are good dreamers overcome emotional difficulties

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Activation - Synthesis Theory

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  • Biological approach
  • Random firing of neutrons in our brain
  • While asleep their is a lack of sensory information coming in so our brain draws on previously stored memories
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Lucid dreams

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  • Able to control dreams once asleep

- Gradually realise you are dreaming, have the ability to change what is happening

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Day dreams

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  • During normal state of consciousness

- Block out external world

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Psychologist

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A person who studies thoughts, feeling and behaviours of humans.