Psych Flashcards
Negative reinforcement
desired behavior removes negative stimulus
Transference
Patient thinks doctor is important formative person
Coubtertransferrnce
Doctor projects feelings of importance onto a patient
Acting out
Immature ego defense. Tantrum
Dissociation
Immature ego defense. Temporary change in personality to avoid conflict. Split personality.
Denial
Immature ego defense. Nothing is wrong!
Displacement
Immature ego defense. Avoided feelings are transferred onto neutral object. Yelling at the dog.
Fixation
Immature ego defense. Partial reversion childish behavior. Sports.
Identification
Immature ego defense. Modeling behavior after superior person in terms of power.
Isolation
Immature ego defense. Separation of feelings from ideas or event.
Projection
Immature ego defense. Unacceptable internal impulse attributed to another source.
Rationalization
Immature ego defense. Claiming logical reason for behavior which is false to avoid conflict.
Reaction formation
Immature ego defense. Acting the opposite way to ward off the unwanted feeling.
Repression
Immature ego defense. Forcing memory out of brain. forgetting a rape
Regression
Immature ego defense. Turn back emotional clock
Splitting
Immature ego defense. Intolerance of ambiguity. Morally black and white.
Classic conditioning
Natural response elicited by learned stimulus
Altruism
Mature ego defense. Do good kid
Humor
Mature ego defense. I didn’t want to be a doctor anyway
Sublimation
Mature ego defense. Redirect energy in a similar thing but positive. Like workout out
Suppression
Mature ego defense. Voluntary ignoring a feeling.
Conduct disorder
Basically doesn’t respect other basic rights. Fights and stealing.
Oppositional defiant disorder
Defying authority figures just cause
Autism
Fixation on objects more than people
Aspergers disorder
Mild autism. Basically obsession over things but no language defects.
Retts disorder
Girls only. Maturation reverses at age four
NT change: anxiety
High norepinephrine
Low GABA serotonin
NT change: depression
Low norepinephrine and serotonin and dopamine