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Psyc Final Flashcards

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approach that states that all behaviors have a cause and don’t happen on accident; there’s a reason behind the behaviors that you do

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determinism

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Freud element of personality that is entirely unconscious and has no contact with reality; follows the pleasure principle; libido; iceberg metaphor

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Id

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Freud element of personality that is conscious; follows reality principle (keeps you out of trouble); follows laws, social expectations, and rules.

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Ego

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Voice of morality; conscious; punishes you by experiencing guilt and shame when you do something bad

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Superego

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sum total of all the things that are good and worthy

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ego-ideal

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When part of you stays in one of the psychosexual development stages

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fixation

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Psychosexual development stage that happens at 0-18 months; errogenous zone is the mouth; conflict is weaning; if you are fixated you still chew on things, are gullible, or have sarcasm

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Oral stage

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Psychosexual development stage that happens at 18 months - three years; errogenous zone is anus; conflict is potty training; if you are fixated you are obsessed with orerliness and tidiness or messy and disorganized

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Anal stage

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fixation obsessed with orderliness and tidiness

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anal retentive

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fixation where you’re messy and disorganized

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anal expulsive

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Pyschosexual development stage that happens at 3 -5 years; errogenous zone is the genitals; boy conflicts are oedipus complex and castration anxiety; girl conflicts are electra complex and penis envy; fixation is problems with sexuality and sex

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Phallic stage

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conflict in the phallic stage where boys are competing with their fathers for possession of his mother

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oedipus complex

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conflict in the phallic stage where boys are afraid that their dad will cut their genitals off

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castration anxiety

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conflict in the genital stage where girls realize they don’t have a penis

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electra complex

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Period within psychosexual development that happens between age 6 to teenage years where ego and superego emerge, sexuality is not expressed, and there is no new conflict

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Latency Period

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Stage of psychosexual development that occurs from adolescence to adulthood; few completely achieve this; ability to gratify own needs while achieving mutual gratification with partner; need complete libido control; no fixations

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Genital Stage

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defense mechanism in which ego helps us find a safer target and take our anger out on something else

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displacement

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defense mechanism in which ego tries to forget memories that may cause anxiety

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repression

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defense mechanism in which ego lets you return to a safer time in life

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regression

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20
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defense mechanism in which ego turns an unwanted thought into its logical opposite

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reaction formation

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Approach that says traits are simply collection of learned behaviors; behaviors are reinforced/punished

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behaviorism

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Person who believes in radical behaviorism; free will doesn’t exist; deterministic

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Skinner

23
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Always a reason for the behaviors you do

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deterministic

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approach believed by Rogers and Maslow; people are born inherently good and adaptive

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Humanism

25
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love

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positive regard

26
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experience love and support, but it seems to have strings attached

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conditional positive regard

27
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we love you no matter what

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unconditional positive regard

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Personality approach that measures and describes people’s personality; mathematical and statistical

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Trait Theories

29
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An anxiety disorder characterized by having sudden and repeated attacks of intense fear; feeling of being out of control during a panic attack; worry about when next one will happen

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Panic disorder

30
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fear of unfamiliar places

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agoraphobia

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Anxiety disorder characterized by restlessness, wound-up, or on edge; fatigue; difficulty concentrating; irritable; sleep problems; “free floating”

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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Anxiety disorder characterized by having obsessions and compulsions

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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Anxiety provoking thought

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Obsession

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Behavior caused by anxiety provoking thought

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compulsion

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Anxiety disorder characterized by an irrational fear of a specific object; one of the most common disorders

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phobia

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anxiety disorder characterized by flashbacks to a certain event; feeling tense or on edge; distorted feelings like guilt or blame

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post traumatic stress disorder

37
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affective disorder characterized by persistsent sad or “empty” mood, hoplessness or pessimism; irritability; guilt; loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities; decreased energy or fatique

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major depression

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reactive

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caused by event

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endogeneous

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no cause/idea

40
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affective mood disorder that cycles between depression and mania

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bipolar depression

41
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affective mood disorder in which people can’t think, may experience hallucinations, delusions, movement disorders, thought broadcasting, delusion, reduced pleasure, reduced speaking; positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms

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schizophrenia

42
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states that possible cause of schizophrenia is by inheritance couples with a stressful environment

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diathesis-stress hypothesis

43
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dissociative disorder that includes trying to get away from stressful event which leads to memory loss

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fugue state

44
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Type of therapy where you talk to someone

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psychotherapy

45
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type of therapy where you are prescribed meds

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biomedical approach

46
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exposure treatment; fear of snakes, hold snakes

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implosion therapy

47
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teach relaxation techniques; create a fear hierarchy

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systematic desentitization

48
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example: you bite your nails, so you put something on your nails that taste bad

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Aversive conditioning

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