Mod 1 - Behavior Flashcards
Behavior
The manner in which an individual acts or functions
Normal Behavior
A subjective term that is defined by a society that one lives in.
3 Common Traits of Normal Behavior
Adaptation, understanding of Cause & Effect, and Time Oriented.
Defense Mechanism
Mental strategies or copes that are performed by someone who aims to decrease negative feelings. These can be either subconscious or conscious, and the copes can be healthy or unhealthy.
Denial of Reality
simplest defense mechanism where there is an effort to block out the truth or reality by ignoring it.
Represssion
Selective forgetting. Uncomfortable/painful thoughts are deliberately excluded from the conscious mind.
Rationalization
Justifying bad behaviors with logic that initially seems reasonable, but really isn”t.
Fantasy
Daydreaming or any imaginative activity allowing a temporary escape from reality.
Projection
Where unwanted internal feelings about oneself are forced on someone else thus blaming them for it.
Overcompensation
one deals with a lack, weakness, or unwanted feeling by making up for it in another area.
Conversion
One has emotional conflicts that are expressed in muscular, sensory, or bodily symptoms of disability, malfunctioning, or pain.
Identification
a person tries to raise his own self esteem by patterning his behavior after the behavior of another person.
Regression
A person returns to reaction patterns they have outgrown.
Emotional Insulation
Characteristics of this defense mechanism include resignation, apathy, and boredom.
The individual breaks emotional involvement with the environment; he draws back from any emotional or personal involvement.
Reaction Formation
The individual suppresses his real thoughts and attitudes (the ones which are unacceptable in his group) and vigorously supports the opposite attitudes (ones which are acceptable in his group).
Displacement
An individual can’t direct impulses at the appropriate target; therefore, he directs his impulses at a substitute target.
Ritualistic Behavior
Some little act performed by the individual will magically, he thinks, make everything turn out all right.
Negativism
An individual actively or passively resists ideas without consciously realizing he is doing so.
Neurosis
The presence of mental disorders that can damage one’s ability to think, but not lose touch with reality.
Anxiety Neurosis
Suffers from uncontrollable anxiety and apprehension.
Constant state of tension, worry, and uneasiness.
Some inadequacy & depression.
Hysterical Neurosis
The individual loses emotional control, or develops some physical symptoms, when there seems to be no underlying cause for either.
Phobic Neurosis
A consistent fear of an object or situation that isn’t truly dangerous. The person magnifies the fear out of proportion of reality. Different than normal fears.
Depressive Neurosis
Similar to depression, but lasts for abnormally longer, usually sparked by a traumatic event.
Psychotic Behavior
Has a severe mental illness marked by loss of contact with reality.
Alcoholic Psychosis
A secondary psychosis that occurs in a variety of alcohol-related conditions showing itself in the form of hallucinations and delusions
Acute Alcoholic Hallucinosis
Where the patient appears normal, but hears voices. Starts with one, but can grow to several voices attacking the persons most private thoughts and condemning them. This can last several days or weeks and can trigger from alcohol use, but can also stem from other unhealthy behaviors
