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Analytical psychology

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the psychoanalytic system of psychology developed and practiced by Carl Jung.

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Archetypes

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universal symbols that tend to reappear over time; includes models of people, behaviours, and personalities

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Cerebrum

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The cerebrum processes complex sensory information and controls voluntary muscle activity.

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Classical conditioning

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a type of learning where a once neutral stimulus comes to produce a particular response after pairings with a conditioned stimulus ex bell and food

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Client centred therapy

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a humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers in which the client plays an active role

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Cognition

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he mental processes in the brain associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering

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Collective unconscious

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the shared, inherited pool of memories from our ancestors

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Conditioned stimulus

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an originally neutral stimulus that comes to trigger a conditioned response after being paired with an unconditional stimulus

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Conditioned responce

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the learned response to a previously neutral stimulus

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Conscious

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information that we are always aware of; our conscious mind performs the thinking when we take in new information

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Correlation

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a measure that indicates a relationship between two factors but does not indicate causation; in a positive correlation, one variable goes up precisely as the other goes up; in a negative correlation, one variable goes up precisely as the other goes down

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Defence mechanism

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he ego’s way of distorting reality to deal with anxiety

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Denial

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a defence mechanism whereby

a person refuses to recognize or acknowledge something that is painful

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Displacement

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the shift of an emotion from its original focus to another object, person, or situation

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Ego

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Freud’s term for the rational part of the mind, which operates on the reality principle
ego identity:

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Extinction

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in operant conditioning, the diminishing of a conditioned response due to a lack of reinforcement

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Fixation

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the continued focus on an earlier stage of psychosocial development due to an unresolved conflict at the oral, anal, or phallic stage

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Free association

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a method used in psychoanalysis where a patient relaxes and says whatever comes to mind

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Id

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Freud’s term for the instinctual part of the mind, which operates on the pleasure principle
Angle and devil

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Identity crisis

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a time in a teenager’s life filled with extreme self-consciousness as he or she attempts to test and integrate various roles finding your self

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Logo-therapy

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a form of psychotherapy that tries to help the patient find the aim and meaning of his or her own life as a human being without accessing the medical aspect of mental health

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Neo freudians

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psychologists who modified Freud’s psychoanalytic theory to include social and cultural aspects

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Neuroscientist:

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a scientist who specializes in the study of the human brain

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Neurotic disorder

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neurotic disorder:

a mental disorder involving anxiety and fear

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Operant conditioning:

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a type of learning that uses rewards and punishment to achieve a desired behaviour

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Personality

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an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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Projection

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a defence mechanism whereby a person attributes their own threatening impulses onto someone else

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Psychoanalytic

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Sigmund Freud’s theory that all human behaviour is influenced
by early childhood and that childhood experiences influence the unconscious mind throughout life

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Psychodynamic

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an approach to therapy that focuses on resolving a patient’s conflicted conscious and unconscious feelings

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Repression

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a process in which unacceptable desires or impulses are excluded from consciousness and left to operate in the unconscious

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Self actualization

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reaching one’s full potential; occurs only after basic physical and psychological needs are met

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Superego

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Freud’s term for the moral centre of the mind

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Unconditioned response:

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the natural response to an unconditioned stimulus

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Unconditioned stimulus:

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a stimulus that naturally triggers a response

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Unconscious

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information processing in our mind that we are not aware of; according to Freud, it holds our unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and memories; according to Jung, it includes patterns of memories, instincts, and experiences common to all

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