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Personality & Abnormal Flashcards

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William Sheldon

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characterized people by body type, relating body type to personality type

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endomorphy

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soft & spherical- relaxed, comfortable, extroverts

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mesomorphy

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hard, muscular & rectangular- active, dynamic, assertive, aggressive

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ectomorphy

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thin, fragile, and lightly muscled- introverted, thoughtful, inhibited, sensitive

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Humanism

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free will & the idea that people should be considered as wholes rather than in terms of stimuli & responses ( behaviorism) or instincts (psychoanalysis)

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General Paresis

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disorder characterized by delusions of grandeur, mental deterioration, eventual paralysis & death –>cause by brain deterioration from syphillis

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Sigmund Freud’s Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Theory

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  • id- unconscious (pleasure principle/wish-fulfillment)
  • ego- mostly conscious (reality principle)
  • superego- mostly preconscious (moral branch; ideal not real)
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defense mechanism: repression

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unconscious forgetting of anxiety producing memories

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defense mechanism: suppression

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deliberate, conscious form of forgetting

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defense mechanism: projection

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attribute forbidden urges to others

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defense mechanism: reaction formation

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a repressed wish is warded off by its diametrical opposite

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defense mechanism: rationalization

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process of developing a socially acceptable explanation for inappropriate behavior or thoughts

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defense mechanism: regression

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reverting to an earlier stage of development in response to a traumatic event

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defense mechanism: displacement

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pent up feelings (often hostility) are discharged on objects & people less dangers than those objects or people causing the feelings

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defense mechanism: sublimation

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transforming unacceptable urges into socially acceptable behaviors

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Alfred Adler’s inferiority complex

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striving toward superiority drives the personality

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Object-Relations Theory

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“object” refers to the symbolic representation of a significant part of the young child’s personality

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Behaviorism

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behavior is learned as people interact w/ the environment

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B.F Skinner’s idea of behaviorism

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personality is a collection of behavior that happens to have been sufficiently reinforced to persist

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Albert Bandura

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Bobo doll–> modeling observed behavior (social learning theory)

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Martin Seligman’s Learned Helplessness

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study w/ dogs

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Beck’s Cognitive Therapy for Depression

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negative thinking rather than underlying conflicts causes depression–> think in less destructive ways

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Rational Emotive Therapy (RET)

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recognize irrational beliefs and change to more rational

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Abraham Maslow

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hierarchy of human needs–> once lower needs are satisfied then higher ones can be satisfied

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George Kelly

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believed individual to be like a scientist, a person who devises and tests predictions about the behavior of significant people in his or her life

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Carl Rogers

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client-centered therapy

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DSM Axis

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Axis I- most frequently diagnosed disorders, except personality disorders & mental retardation

Axis II- personality disorders & mental retardation

Axis III- relevant general medical conditions

Axis IV- psychosocial & environmental problems

Axis V- global assessment of psychological, social, & occupational functioning (GAF) –>0-100 scale

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Positive symptoms of Schizophrenia

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behaviors, thoughts or affects added to normal behavior (delusions, hallucinations, etc)

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Negative symptoms of Schizophrenia

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absence of normal or desired behavior ( flat affect)

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Dopamine Hypothesis

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excess of dopamine at certain sites–> or sensitivity to dopamine

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Double Bind hypothesis

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as a child, received contradictory and mututally incompatible messages by his or her primary caregiver (usually the mother)

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Somatoform Disorders

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presence of physical symptoms that suggest a medical condition but which are not fully explained by a mental condition

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Conversion disorder

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unexplained symptoms affecting voluntary motor or sensory functions

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Dissociative amnesia

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inability to recall past experience

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dissociative fugue

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amnesia that accompanies a sudden, unexpected move away from one’s home or location of usual daily activities (may assume new identity)

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dissociative identity disorder (DID)

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(formerly known as multiple personality disorder) 2 ore more personalities that take control of persons behavior

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depersonalization disorder

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person feels detached, like an outside observer of his or her mental processes and/or behavior

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Diathesis-Stress Model

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having a predisposition to a disorder, which is triggered by stress

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David Rosenhan (1973)

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Being Sane in an Insane Place

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