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Direct measurement of SNS activity

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Electrodermal Activity (skin conductance)
SNS activation => sweat production
higher sweat production = higher electrical activity

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Chronic activation of SNS as a result of

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high anxiety and neuroticism

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How does stress affect cardiovascular activity?

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Stress => SNS activation => inc BP and HR
Linked to Type A personality

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Measurements of brain activity

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PET and (f)MRI
Noninvasive techniques for mapping

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Biochemical analyses of blood to look for:

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Monoamine Oxidase - removes neurotransmitters (norepinephrine, serotonin and dopamine) from the brain

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Biochemical analysis of saliva for:

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Immune system fxn
Hormone levels

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Physiological theories of extraversion-introversion

Eysenck + Hebb

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Difference in AROUSABILITY

Introverts show larger/faster NS response to moderate stimulation

Ascending Reticular Activating System (ARAS)
- Structure in brainstem controls cortical arousal
- Introverts have higher baseline cortical arousal and .t. are more sensitive to stimulus
- Eysenck’s Theory

Optimal Level of Arousal
- Ind differences in optimal level for any given task
- Introverts attempt to regulate arousal downward
- Extraverts attempt to regulate arousal upward
- Arousal curve: Rainbow shape; work best at peak
- Hebb

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Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory

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Physiological theory of sensitivity to reward + punishment

Ppl differ in sensitivity of BIS/BAS
BIS: responsive to punishment, frustration, uncertainty; vulnerable to negative affect, high anxiety, and neuroticism
BAS: vulnerable to positive affect, high impulsivity, and extraversion

Gray

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Physiological theories of sensation seeking

Hebb, Zuckerman, MAO

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Sensory deprivation => motivation to acquire any sensory input

Optimal Level of Arousal Theory (Hebb):
- ppl are motivated to reach their optimal level of arousal through tension reduction or tension seeking
- sensation seekers look to inc arousal

Sensation-Seeking Scale (Zuckerman):
- measure need for novel/exciting experiences + thrill enjoyment
- predicts sensory deprivation tolerance (high sensation seeking = lower tolerance)
- moderate positive correlation between extraversion and sensation seeking

Monoamine oxidase
- MAO fxn: decomposes NTs ∴ inhibits neurotransmission to control muscles, thots, emotions
- high sensation seeking = low MAO = high neurotransmission = low inhibition

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Tridimensional Personality Theory for Neurotransmission

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Cloninger

Dopamine: ↓ dopamine = ↑ novelty seeking (seeking pleasure/reward)
Serotonin: Abnormalities in uptake/metabolism = harm avoidance
Norepinephrine: ↓ NE = reward dependence

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Which hemisphere is most activated during negative affect

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right frontal

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Which hemisphere is most activated during positive affect

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Left frontal

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Right hemisphere dominance correlated with

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Lower optimal level of arousal: ↑ cortisol response ∴ ↓ threshold for negative emotional response (↑ irritability)

Meditation can train a shift toward left-sided assymmetry

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Dimensions of Zuckerman’s Sensation-Seeking Scale

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Thrill + adventure seeking
Experience seeking
Disinhibition
Boredom susceptibility/Impulsivity

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Trends of Zuckerman’s Sensation-Seeking Scale

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Men > Women (stable across time but gap narrows)
Inc age = dec scores
Peak in late adolescence
Habituation: repetitiveness decreases arousal ∴ have to find new, more exciting activity

Novelty seeking linked to creativity
Fear/anxiety not correlated, BUT high sensation seekers will enjoy the thrill of fear

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Adaptations

Darwin

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Inherited solutions to survival/reproduction problems caused by events that impede survival

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Sexual Selection

Define and 2 forms

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Evolution of characteristics because of mating benefits (vs survival)

2 forms:
- Intrasexual competition: members of same sex compete for greater access to members of opposite sex (victory = inc mating opportunites)
- Intersexual Selection: choose mate based on preferences of characteristics (inc prefered characteristics = inc offspring)

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Inclusive Fitness Theory

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“Inclusive” fitness = personal reproductive success PLUS ind effect on the reproductive success of genetic relatives
- weighted by degree of genetic relatedness
- cost of helping relative must be less that benefit of reproduction of common genes

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Differential gene reproduction

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Reproductive success relative to others
Result of survival and/or successful mate competition

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3 products of the evolutionary process

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1) Adaptations: primary product
- reliably developing structure in the organism
- affected by environment
- meshes with recurrent structures of the world (selective envmt)
- must facilitate the solution to an adaptive problem (“special design”)

2) Byproducts of adaptations
- incidental effects of evolution
- e.g. nose for smelling (adaptation) and for holding up glasses (byproduct)

3) Noise
- random variants
- neutral with respect to selection (no hinderance to adaptation fxn)

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Evolutionary Psychology (3 premises and limitations)

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Evolutionary processes create many specialized mechanisms to solve particular adaptive problems. These adaptive mechanisms are:
1) Domain Specific
2) Numerous
3) Functional

Limitations:
- archival
- conditions change
- mult theories for phenomena (not all falsifiable)

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Evolutionary Analysis Hierarchy

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1) Evolution by selection (survival + reproduction)
2) Middle-level evolutionary theories (e.g. parental investment)
3) Hypotheses
4) Specific predictions (if true, then what?)

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Value and tenability of a theory

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determined by specific predictions in an if… then format

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Empirical research of the evolution hypothesis

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Evolutionary psychology proceeds through deductive (top-down, theory-driven) and inductive (bottom-up, data-driven) research

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Human Nature - Need to Belong

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Hogan: most basic human motivators are status and acceptance (increases resources such as protection, food, mates)

Establish cooperative relations with group and negotiate hierarchies in order to survive and reproduce

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Evidence for need to belong as survival mech

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inc threat to survival = inc group cohesion

resources linked with group membership = inc bonding

inc time with others = inc self-esteem

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Social anxiety adaptation

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Social anxiety is a species-typical adaptation to prevent exclusion

Exclusion activates physical pain system (ACC)
Self-esteem monitors social inclusion

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Key adaptive functions of group (Baumeister & Leary)

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Sharing: food, info, resources
Protecting: against external threats
Access: inc concentration of mates for reproduction
Kin: opportunity for altruism + inclusive fitness

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Evolutionary Altruism (Burnstein)

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Helping others is a direct function of recipient’s ability to enhance the inclusive fitness of the helper

⬆︎ helping by:
↑ genetic relatedness
↓ age
↑ reproductive value

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3 perspectives on universal emotion

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1) Interpretation across cultures
- if all humans share an emotional expression, then likely to be a core part of human nature

2) Emotions are adaptive psych mechs that signal various “fitness accordances” in the social envmt
- emotions guide toward goals that would have conferred fitness in ancestral envmt

3) Manipulation hypothesis: emotion designed to exploit psych mechs of other people
- e.g. express rage to back-up threat

Ekman: emotions are an evolved part of human nature bc universally expressed/recognized

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Evolutionary-Predicted Sex Differences

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Sexes will differ in domains that have different adaptive problems

e.g. women need stable resources to support pregnancy + lactation ∴ find mate that can reliably support them

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Evolutionary predictor of aggression

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Patterns of aggression predicted by intrasexual competition (women are valuable, limited resource for reproduction)

Long history of effective polygyny in men ∴ more often perpetrators/victims of violence

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Effective polygyny

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Some males gain many offspring, meanwhile other men are shut out from contributing to the ancestry of future gens

↑ effective polygyny = ↑ intrasexual competition = ↑ sexual dimorphism in size and form = ↑ variance in offspring

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2 main theories of evolutionary jealousy

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1) Infidelity risks
- Men more sensitive to sexual infidelity bc of risk of investing in children who are not their own
- Women more sensitive to emotional infidelity bc of need for stable resources
- Low empirical support

2) Attachment-fertility (Miller + Fishkin)
- ↑ offspring survival with parental investment from both ∴ selective pressure favouring men who could develop bond with kids and mother
- jealousy evolved to preserve bonds

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4 main evolutionary mechs to explain ind differences in adaptive traits

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1) Envmtl triggers
- degree of exposure to evoking conditions

2) Contingency on other traits
- use adaptive self-assessments to determine social strategies (personal strengths + weaknesses)

3) Frequency-dependent strategies
- heritable variation decreases as successful variants replace the less successful
- frequency-dependent selection: 2 or more heritable variants maintained
- success of variant depends on commonality
- life history strategy (differences in effort allocated to reproductively relevant problems)

4) Optimum value of trait changes with time and place
- value of trait = forces of selection
- ind diffs due to dif evolutionary selection processes in local ecologies
- i.e. risk taking: selection for cautious vs risk-taking traits depend on food security vs scarcity

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Reactively heritable

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Secondary consequence of heritable trait
(e.g. body build –> aggression)

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Adaptive Rumination Hypothesis

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Depression is an adaptation that evolved as a response to social stress relating to survival/fitness
Function: sustain rumination/analysis of complex problems

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K-strategy of life history

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Survival + parenting > obtaining many mates
∴ ↑ attachment, ↓ risky bhvr

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How are stable individual differences maintained

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Motivational reactions (solutions) to particular classes of adaptive problems
Personality differences maintained by balancing selection => dif levels of trait adaptive in different environments

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Correlations between Big 5 and adaptive solutions

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Agreeableness: cooperation
Emotional stability: sensitivity to exclusion
High neuroticism: ↑ vigilance, ↑ stress + depression
Extraversion: risk-taking and short-term mating
Conscientiousness: goal pursuit + delayed gratification

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Difference-detecting mechanisms (define and Big 5)

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Notice and remember individual diffs in solving relevant adaptive problems

Extraversion: hierarchy/status, dominance
Agreeableness: cooperative, reciprocative, loyal
Conscientiousness: reliable, dependable, industrious
Emotional stability: coping, draining, time
Openness + intellect: advisor

Ellis: suggests physical attractiveness (health/fertility) & physical prowess (protection)

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Psychic Energy

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Motivates all human activity
Source: instincts
Fixed amount of energy
Personality change = redirection of energy

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Freud’s theory of Instinct

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Life and death instinct interact

Life instinct (sexual + self-preservation instincts):
- libido
- pleasure oriented
Death instinct:
- thanatos
urge to destroy, harm, or aggress against others or oneself

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Levels of awareness in motivation

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Conscious: thots, feels, perceptions in present awareness
Preconscious: thots, feels, perceptions not currently aware of but could easily be brought to mind
Unconscious: thots + memories that person is unaware of

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Psychic Determinism + Talking-Cure

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Nothing happens by chance - discover unconscious cause of symptoms to cure psych symptoms

Recall repressed memories –> express associated feelings –> emotional catharsis –> removes cause of symptoms –> symptom disappears
- Dream analysis
- Talking-cure (Freud + Breuer)

Therapist takes passive, unseen position so that patient isn’t influenced by microexpression

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Process of Psychoanalysis (3)

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Insight: intense emotional experience that accompanies repressed material being reintegrated into conscious awareness

Resistance: forces of repressed impulses/traumas are resistant to psychoanalytic process (signifies that important material is being uncovered)

Transference: displace feelings of someone else onto analyst

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Id (fxn, age, principle, process)

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Fxn: sources of drives + urges
Age: birth
Principle: pleasure (immediate gratification)
Process of thinking: primary - w/o logic, reality, rules

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Ego (fxn, age, principle, process)

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Fxn: constrains id to reality
Age: 2-3yrs
Principle: reality (find outlet for urges)
Process: secondary - strategies for problem solving and obtaining satisfaction

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Superego (fxn, age, principle, process, sources)

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Fxn: upholds social values + ideals
Age: 5
Principle: idealistic
Process: Guilt to enforce right + wrong; Not bound by reality
Source: internalized morals (parents), conscious (past learning through reinforcement), ego-ideal (past learning through reward)

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Which personality components are conscious? (freud)

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Ego!

And sometimes superego (past learning through reinforcement)

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Internal conflict

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Id vs Superego
Leads to anxiety

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Ego depletion

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Psychic energy depleted by efforts toward self-control (ego), leaving low energy for subsequent self-control situations

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3 Types of Anxiety + defence

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1) Objective
- response to a real, external threat to the person
- ego control threatened by EXTERNAL factor
2) Neurotic
- id vs ego
- worry that ego may lose control to an unacceptable desire
- ego control threatened by an INTERNAL factor
3) Moral
- id vs superego
- based on a feeling that one’s internalized values (superego) are about to be compromised (id)

Defence Mechanisms: protect ego and minimize anxiety/distress

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Techniques of Pyschoanalytic Therapy

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Deliberately restructure personality by finding unconscious causes
Techniques:
- Free association: look for themes
- Dream analysis: focus on latent content (symbols of wishes + desires) over manifest content
Projective techniques: coded symbols

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Repression

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Unconscious denial of threat existence
most basic defence mech

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Fixation

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Remaining (long-term) at particular stage of development (psychosexual or psychosocial)

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Denial

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Conscious denial of existence of an external threat or traumatic event

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Reaction Formation

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Express an id impulse that is opposite to the one driving the person (taking the other extreme)

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Projection

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Attribute a disturbing impulse to someone else
(extreme case is paranoia)

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Regression

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Temporary retreat to an earlier, less frustrating period of like => display bhvr characteristic of that period
Emotion > cognition

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Rationalization

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Reinterpret bhvr to increase acceptance, decrease threat

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Displacement

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Shift id impulse (anger) from threatening/unavailable object (boss) to an available one (boyfriend)

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Sublimation

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Alter id impulses by diverting instinctual energy into socially acceptable bhvr (e.g. exercising when distressed)

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Introjection

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Incorporate the positive qualities of other into view of self

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Levels of psychosexual development

(not stages)

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Fixation: remain at stage long-term
Poor resolution: less psychic energy available for subsequent maturation tasks
Successful personality development: able to be productive and maintain loving relationships

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Stages of psychosexual development (list and describe)

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1) Oral - “taking in”
- birth –> 18 months
- conflict: biological (nourishment + pleasure) and psychological (fear of abandonment) components
- fixation: oral stimulation, overly dependent

2) Anal - self-control
- 18 months –> 3yrs
- conflicts:
-↓ self-control => dirty, sloppy bhvr
-↑↑ self-control => pleasure in little acts of self-control
- fixation: compulsive, overly neat, rigid, never messy, stingy

3) Phallic - discovery of own genitals/pleasure
- 3-5yrs
- conflicts:
- Oedipal: attraction to mom, jealous (identification) + threatened by dad (castration anxiety)
- Electra: blame mom for penis envy, attraction to dad (without fear of mom ∴ no strong motivation to give it up)

4) Latency
- 6yrs -> puberty
- lack of sexual conflict

5) Genital - sexual awakening
- puberty onwards

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Weston associated with

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the neo-analytic movement (contemporary psychoanalysis

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Weston defines contemporary psychoanalysis based on (5)

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1) unconscious plays a large role in life, but not so far Freud thot
2) Bhvr often reflects conflicts among mental processes
3) childhood plays important role in personality development
4) mental representations of the self and relationships guide interactions
5) Personality development involves regulating impulses and moving from immature, social dependent relationships to mature, independent style

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Loftus associated with…

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repression and false memories

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Variables contributing to construction of false memories (4)

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1) Popular press: provide strong suggestions that abuse could have happened without memory of it

2) Leading questioning

3) Spreading activation: priming constructive memory by providing associated mental elements

4) Therapist behaviour: imagination inflation effect, therapist with confirmatory bias

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Two differing views on the unconscious

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Motivated unconscious view (freud)
Cognitive unconscious view (contemporary)

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Cognitive unconscious view

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Info can get into memory without ever being aware of it (e.g. subliminal processing/priming), ∴ unconscious thots aren’t always repressed id

Unconscious info doesn’t influence motivations - influence on bhvr, thots, feels are rule governed, specific, and bound to reality

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Erikson view on psychoanalysis/ego

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Psychosocial development (vs psychosexual)
Personality development through life (vs formed by 5)
Psychosocial conflicts lead to adaptive or maladaptive resolutions
Shift from id to ego focus
- Body ego (satisfaction compared to beauty ideals)
- Ego ideal (satisfaction dependent on gap b/w self vs “perfect self”)
- Ego identity (social role varies with context)

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Karen Horney

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Reconceptualized psychoanalysis from biological to social influences

Disputed Freud’s notion of penis envy => instead, girls have desire for the social power + privilege that comes with

Cultural + historical determinants of personality (gender differences in traits/roles)

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Narcissistic paradox

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appear to have high self-esteem, but internal self-representations are fragile + vulnerable to criticism

Kernburg + Kohut

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Ego psychology

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Primary fxn of ego: establishing a secure identity/sense of self

Difficulty establishing identity => identity crisis (time of adjustment)

Psychosocial stages of development

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Premises of psychosocial stage of development

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Every stage has interaction of opposites -> conflict between dystonic (disruptive) and syntonic (harmonoious) elements
- Must hold both perspectives to gain identity strength (virtue)

Too little ego strength at one stage will lead to core pathology @ later stage

Stages are biological in nature

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Motives (define, influence, core ideas)

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Internal states that arouse + direct behaviour toward specific objects/goals

Caused by a deficit or need (state of tension)

Propel ppl to perceive, think, and act in a way that helps reduce tension

Core ideas:
- ind diffs in type and intensity
- diffs are measurable
- diffs based on ind life goals
- relative amounts are stable/t
- connects dispositional and intrapsychic domains

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Needs (define, types, associations)

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Readiness/potentiality to respond in a certain way under given circumstances
Ind diffs in hierarchy/strength of needs
Organize perception and action to reduce state of tension

Viscerogenic (primary): satisfied by physical means
Psychogenic (secondary): satisfied by emotional/mental
State level of need: specific need fluctuating with situation
Trait level of need: average tendency toward a specific need

Each needs associated with:
- a specific desire/intention
- particular set of emotions
- specific action tendencies
- described with trait names

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Motive dynamic

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Interaction of various motives within a person

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Press

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Need-relevant aspects of the envmt
Alpha press: objective reality
Beta press: subjective reality

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Apperception (define, influences, assessments)

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Act of interpreting the envmt & perception of the meaning of an event
Influenced by needs and motives
Greatest with ambiguous stimuli

Thematic Apperception Test: participant describes and interprets an ambiguous image to assess psychoanalytic concepts, motives, needs
Multi-Motive Grid: pictures selected to prime either achievement, power, or intimacy motive, then answer questions about motivational states

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Need for Achievement (nAch)

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Desire to improve, succeed, and feel competent

Characteristics:
- Prefer moderate levels of challenge
- prefer outcomes that htey are personally responsible for
- prefer tasks with available personal feedback

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Need for Power (nPow)

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Readiness/preference for having an impact on others

Social experiences determine profligate impulsive behaviours
- i.e. responsibility training decreases alcohol abuse

Winter

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Need for Intimacy

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Recurrent preference/readiness for warm/close/communicative interactions

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Implicit vs Explicit motives

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Implicit motivation:
- based on needs - reflect real, unconscious/automatic motivations
- measured in fantasy-based measures
- better predictor of long-term, spontaneous bhvrl trends/t

Explicit motivation:
- self-attributed - reflect conscious awareness about self-understanding
- better prediction of responses to immediate, specific situations and of choice behvaiours and attitudes

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Humanistic Tradition and approach to motivation

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Motive to self-actualize
Meaning of life found in personal choices and responsibility taken for them

Characteristics of humanistic approach to motivation:
- emphasis on conscious awareness of needs, choices, personal responsibility
- emphasis on human need for growth and realization of one’s full potential (human nature is positive and life-affirming)
- growth based (self-actualization) vs deficit-based (big 3)

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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Most important/motivated to least important:
1) physiological
2) safety
3) belongingness
4) esteem
5) self-actualization

Satisfaction of attaining higher goals > lower goals
Additional, final level: self-transcendance

Collectivistic cultures place belonging as the most important, and remove esteem

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Self-actualization associations with Big 5

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↑ conscientiousness, openness to experience, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability

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Self-actualization and Fully Functional Person

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Carl Rogers: everyone is capable of self-actualization when free from barriers

Fully functioning person: on their way to self-actualization without barrier
- open to new/novel experiences
- centred in the present
- trust in oneself
- unconditional positive self-regard
- responds to anxiety (discrepancy b/w self-concept and experience) by altering self-concept (vs using defence mechs)

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5 components of ability emotional intelligence

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5 abilities:
1) know one’s own emotions
2) regulate own emotions
3) motivate oneself and
4) know how others are feeling
5) influence how others are feeling

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4 dimension of Trait emotional intelligence (with Big 5)

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1) Well-being
-ve correlation with neuroticism
+ve correlation with extraversion
2) Self-control
-ve correlation with neuroticism
+ve correlation with openness
3) Emotionality
+ve correlations with extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness
4) Sociability
-ve correlation with neuroticism
+ve correlations with extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness

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Dimensions of trait emotional intelligence that are associated with social and artistic interests

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Wellbeing
Emotionality
Sociability (social, not artistic)

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Dimensions of trait emotional intelligence that are associated with business interests

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Self-control
Sociability

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Client Centred Therapy (Rogers)

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For progress to occur, there must be:
- atmosphere of genuine acceptance
- unconditional positive regard from therapist
- empathic understanding

Therapist reflects back client’s thots and feels; no interpretations or directions

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Perception (styles)

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Witkin
Perceptual style: the way ppl perceive envmt and navigate info
Field-dependence: rely on external/visual cues
- strong social skills
- more attentive to social context
Field-independence: rely on internal cues
- skillful at analyzing complex situations and focusing attention
- more creative
- low social skills

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Pain tolerance theory (perception)

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Petrie

Reducer/Augmenter Theory:
- individual differences based on NS reactivity
- low pain tolerance (augmenters) = NS amplifies sensory stimulation
-Reducers seek more stimulation to reach optimal level of arousal

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Interpretation (3 theories/models)

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Kelly:
- Primary human motivation = find meaning in life and use this to understand, predict, and control life
- Personal Construct Theory: individual differences in personal constructs (meaning/interpretation of the world) that are habitually employed

Rotter:
Locus of Control: perception of responsibility for life events
- Social Learning Theory: value and expectations of reinforcement
- Expectancy Model: expectations for reinforcement held across variety of situations (generalized expectancies) influence appraisal of control in new situation
- external vs internal locus of control

Learned Helplessness
- Caused by being stuck in an unpleasant situation that is considered to be outside of one’s control
- Explanatory style: dif ways of interpreting and explaining the causes of events. 3 broad dimensions:
1) Internal/external
2) Stable/unstable
3) Global/specific
- Pessimistic style: internal, stable, global
- Optimistic style: external, unstable, specific

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Goals (cognition) 5 theories/models

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Focus: what ppl want to happen (intention) and they want to achieve

Personal Projects Analysis (Little):
- relevant actions intended to achieve goal
- correlation with big 5:
↑ neuroticism = experience difficulty + dissatisfaction in accomplishing one’s goal
↓stress, ↑optimism, ↑control predicts happiness + satisfaction with life

Cognitive Social Learning Theory (Bandura):
- emphasizes cognitive and social factors in value and motivation toward goals
- Self-system exists for self-regulation of bhvr in pursuit of goals
- Self-efficacy = belief that goal pursuit is realistic
↑ self-efficacy ↔︎ ↑performance

Theory of Mastery Orientation (Dweck)
- Entity view of intelligence: unchangeable internal characteristics (avoid challenge)
- Incremental view of intelligence: malleable, changed with effort (↑ motivation, stable self-esteem, accept challenges)

Theory of Regulatory Focus (Higgins)
- regulate goal directed behaviour in 2 ways:
1) Promotion focus: concerned with advancement and accomplishment (eager, determined, extraversion, BAS)
2) Prevention focus: concerned with protection and prevention of -ve outcomes (vigilant, cautious, neuroticism, harm avoidance, -ve impulsivity)

Cognitive-Affective Personality System
- ind diffs in organization of cog + affective processes relative to specific situational characteristics
- if.. then

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Intelligence

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Application of cog. skills and knowledge to solve problems, learn, and achieve goals that are valued by the individual and culture

Achievement view: educational attainment in comparison to age cohort
Aptitude view: ability to become educated (i.e. IQ test)

Intelligence correlated with mental speed
- Inspection Time Test: discriminate between 2 objects

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Erikson’s Psychosocial stages of development

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1:
- trust vs mistrust
- virtue: hope
2:
- autonomy vs shame/doubt
- virtue: will
3-5:
- initiative vs guilt
- virtue: purpose
6-12:
- industry vs inferiority
- virtue: competence
13-18:
- identity vs role confusion
- virtue: fidelity
19-39:
- intimacy vs isolation
- virtue: love
40-64:
- generativity vs stagnation
- virtue: care for others
65+:
- integrity vs despair
- virtue: wisdom

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