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Sigmun Freud

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Psycho dynamic theory

Freud’s iceberg

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Precocious

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Thoughts that can be brought to mind easily by asking

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Conscious

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Thoughts we are currently “thinking” and aware of at any given moment

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Unconscious

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Repressed memories, traumas, anxieties, sexual and aggressive urges

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Id, ego, Superego

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Id- the devil

Superego- the angel

Ego- the mix between the two

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Repression

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Blocking out a memory of something that is upsetting or anxiety producing

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Regression

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Acting like a child, in reaction to something upsetting or anxiety producing

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Reaction formation

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Acting the opposite of how you feel about things to cover up your true feelings

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Projection

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Saying or assuming that someone else feels the way you actually feel

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Rationalization

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Making up an excuse to try to explain your behavior or your feelings

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Displacement

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Taking out your frustrations and anger on something or someone else that is less threatening

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Sublimation

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Taking out frustrations or urges in a socially acceptable way

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Denial

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Not accepting that bad news or a bad memory is real, pretending like it never happened

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Identification

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Acting like someone else that you look up to to protect yourself from your unwanted feelings

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Mei-Freudians

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Personality structure of Id, ego, Superego
Importance of unconscious
Importance of child hood
Anxiety and defense mechanisms

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Adler

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Inferiority complex

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Inferiority complex

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Cause by our need to take control of our own lives

Move from inferiority to superiority

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Horney

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Toward, against, or away in order to counter anxiety

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Jung

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Agreed that unconscious was important, but not the sexual and aggressive unconscious

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Collective unconscious

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Innate ideas and behaviors that all humans share

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Archetypes

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A collectively inherited thought or idea

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Projective test

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Contains open ended questions usually to ambiguous scenes and images

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Rorschach inkblot test

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A series of inkblot images in which the respondent is asked to identify what they see

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Thematic Apperception Tests (TAT)

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A series of ambiguous and vague pictures to which the respondent needs to add a story or information. Identifies personality traits or current concerns and anxieties.

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Draw a person test

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Draw a person

Evaluates cognitive ability or their personality based on what they draw

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Abraham Maslow

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Humanistic

Hierarchy of needs

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Hierarchy of needs

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Self actualization 
Esteem
Love/belonging
Safety
Physiological
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Rogers

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Believed people were Genuine, accepting, and empathetic

UPR

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Unconditional positive regard

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People make mistakes but that doesn’t mean they are a bad person

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Real vs ideal self

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Real- what you are

Ideal- what you want to be

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Fully functioning individual

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Mix between ideal and real self

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Client ap entered therapy

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Called a client not a patient and therapist serves as a guide

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Albert Ellis

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Cognitive theory

ABCs

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ABCs

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Activating event

Belief

Consequences

Our beliefs control our emotions

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Beck

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Learned helplessness

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Internal and external locus of control

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Internal- i am in control of what happens to me

External- forces outside of me such as Luck are in control of what happens to me

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Bandura

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Behavioral cognitive perspective

Reciprocal determinism

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Reciprocal determinism

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Personal/ cognitive component

Environment

Behavior

These influence our behavior

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Individualist and collectivist culture

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Individualist- does things for themselves

Collectivist- does things for the good of the group

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Allport

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Father of the trait theory

Identified 4000 personality traits and labeled them as central or secondary traits

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Traits

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Consistent and predictable patterns of behavior

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Cattell

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Took allport’s list and created tests to identify his 16 main personality characteristics

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Isabell and Katherine Briggs

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Myers-Briggs personality inventory

Introversion vs. extroversion
Sensing vs. intuition
Thinking vs. feeling
Judgment vs. perception

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Eyesnck

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Personality driven out of genetics

Introversion vs. extroversion
Emotional stability vs instability
Psychoticism

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Introversion vs extroversion

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Introvert- more reserved

Extroversion- more outgoing

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BFI Big five inventory

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Contentiousness- aware of things around you 
Agreeableness- flexible 
Neuroticism- overly perfectionistic 
Openness- how open are you to new ideas 
Extroversion- not shy

CANOE

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MMPI

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567 true/false questions created to identify strengths, weaknesses, habits, fears, and mental problems

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CPI

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This test is made up of 434 true/false questions used to measure social and interactive characteristics of a “normal” person but NOT built to measure mental illness

Shares 194 questions with the MMPI

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