Psyc1

Question 1

Classic Conditioning.

Answer 1

Learning in which a NATURAL response is elicited by a conditioned, or learned, stimulus that previously was presented in conjunction with an UNCONDITIONED stimulus

Question 2

What is an example of Classic Conditioning?

Answer 2

Pavlov’s Dog

• Ringing bell (conditioned or learned stimulus)
• Salivation (natural response)
• Food (unconditioned stimulus)

Question 3

Operant Conditioning.

Answer 3

Learning in which a particular action is elicited because it produces a reward

Question 4

Types of operant conditioning.

Answer 4

• Positive Reinforcement
  
  • mouse presses button to get food
• Negative Reinforcement
  
  • mouse presses button to turn off loud noise
• Punishment
  
  • repeated adverse stimulus stops unwanted behavior
• Extinction
  
  • discontinuation of reinforcement (+ or -) eventually eliminates behavior

Question 5

What is Transference?

Answer 5

Patients projects feelings about formative or other important persons onto Physician
-e.g., psychiatrist is seen as parent

Question 6

What is Countertransference?

Answer 6

Doctor projects feelings about formative or other important persons onto patient

Question 7

What are Ego Defenses?

Answer 7

unconscious mental processes used to resolve conflict and prevent undesirable feelings

Question 8

What are the immature defenses?

Answer 8

Acting out
DIssociation
Denial
Displacement
Fixation
Identification
Isolation (of affect)
Projection
Rationalization
Reaction formation
Regression
Repression
Splitting

Question 9

Example of what Immature Defense?

-Tantrums

Answer 9

Acting out

Question 10

Example of what Immature Defense?

-Multiple personality disorder (extreme form)

Answer 10

Dissociation

Question 11

Example of what Immature Defense?

-Common reaction in newly diagnosed AIDS or cancer patient

Answer 11

Denial

Question 12

Example of what Immature Defense?

-Mother yells at child, because her husband yelled at her

Answer 12

Dislacement

Question 13

Example of what Immature Defense?

-Grown man obsessed with sports

Answer 13

Fixation

Question 14

Example of what Immature Defense?

-Abused child models behavior of his abuser

Answer 14

Identification

Question 15

Example of what Immature Defense?

-Describing murder in graphic detail with no emotional response

Answer 15

Isolation (of affect)

Question 16

Example of what Immature Defense?

-A man who wants another woman thinks his wife is cheating on him

Answer 16

Projection

Question 17

Example of what Immature Defense?

-After getting fired, claiming that the job was not important anyways

Answer 17

Rationalization

Question 18

Example of what Immature Defense?

-Patient with libidinous thoughts enters a monastery

Answer 18

Reaction formation

Question 19

Example of what Immature Defense?

-Previously toilet trained toddler starts wetting bed after birth of new sibling

Answer 19

Regression

Question 20

Example of what Immature Defense?

-Not remembering a conflictual or traumatic experience; pressing ad thoughts into the unconscious

Answer 20

Repression

Question 21

Example of what Immature Defense?
-Patient says all nurses are cold and insensitive but that the doctors are wamr and friendly (All or Nothing) – Seen in Borderline Personality Disorder

Answer 21

Splitting

Question 22

What are the Mature Ego defenses?

-Examples?

Answer 22

• Altruism
• mafia boss donates money to charity
• Humor
• student jokes about boards
• Sublimation
• Teenager’s aggression toward father is redirected to perform well in sports
• Suppression
• Not thinking about Exam until week of

“Mature adults wear a SASH”