Psych 🍍 Final Flashcards

Question

What are the three dimensions that Seligman proposed for understanding and defining happiness?

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Pleasant life : enjoying daily pleasures Good life : using skills for enrichment Meaningful life : contributing to the greater good

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The science of happiness, area of psychology designed to identify and promote qualities that lead to greater fulfillment in life.

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When an internal mechanism breaks down or can no longer performed its normal function. Also the dysfunction must be harmful and lead to negative consequences

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Disturbances in thoughts feelings and behaviors Reflect some kind of biological psychological or developmental dysfunction Lead to significant distress or disability in life Disturbances do not reflect culturally acceptable responses to certain events like grief after death

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characterized by persistent and excessive worry about a number of different things. People with GAD may anticipate disaster and may be overly concerned about money, health, family, work, or other issues. Individuals with GAD find it difficult to control their worry. They may worry more than seems warranted about actual events or may expect the worst even when there is no apparent reason for concern. These symptoms include constant worry, restlessness, and trouble with concentration.

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Social anxiety disorder (also called social phobia) is a mental health condition. It is an intense, persistent fear of being watched and judged by others. This fear can affect work, school, and your other day-to-day activities. Symptoms may include excess fear of situations in which one may be judged, worry about embarrassment or humiliation, or concern about offending someone.

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Panic disorder is a type of anxiety disorder. It causes panic attacks, which are sudden feelings of terror when there is no real danger. You may feel as if you are losing control. You may also have physical symptoms, such as. Fast heartbeat. Symptoms include stress that's out of proportion to the impact of the event, inability to set aside a worry, and restlessness.

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Specific phobia is an intense, irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger. Although adults with phobias may realize that these fears are irrational, even thinking about facing the feared object or situation brings on severe anxiety symptoms. ``` a feeling of imminent danger or doom. the need to escape. heart palpitations. sweating. trembling. ```

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common, chronic, and long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and/or behaviors (compulsions) that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over. OCD often centers on themes such as a fear of germs or the need to arrange objects in a specific manner. Symptoms usually begin gradually and vary throughout life.

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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event.

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Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest and can interfere with your daily functioning. The persistent feeling of sadness or loss of interest that characterizes major depression can lead to a range of behavioral and physical symptoms. These may include changes in sleep, appetite, energy level, concentration, daily behavior, or self-esteem. Depression can also be associated with thoughts of suicide.

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A disorder associated with episodes of mood swings ranging from depressive lows to manic highs. Manic episodes may include symptoms such as high energy, reduced need for sleep, and loss of touch with reality. Depressive episodes may include symptoms such as low energy, low motivation, and loss of interest in daily activities. Mood episodes last days to months at a time and may also be associated with suicidal thoughts.

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Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impairs daily functioning, and can be disabling.

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A disorder characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality states. Dissociative identity disorder is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality identities. Each may have a unique name, personal history, and characteristics.

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ADHD is a disorder that makes it difficult for a person to pay attention and control impulsive behaviors. He or she may also be restless and almost constantly active. Symptoms include limited attention and hyperactivity

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a complex developmental condition that involves persistent challenges in social interaction, speech and nonverbal communication, and restricted/repetitive behaviors. ``` Abnormal Body Posturing or Facial Expressions. Abnormal Tone of Voice. Avoidance of Eye Contact or Poor Eye Contact. Behavioral Disturbances. Deficits in Language Comprehension. Delay in Learning to Speak. Flat or Monotonous Speech. Inappropriate Social Interaction. ```

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A Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness characterized by pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image, and behavior. These symptoms often result in impulsive actions and problems in relationships. People with borderline personality disorder may experience intense episodes of anger, depression, and anxiety that can last from a few hours to days.

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Antisocial personality disorder, sometimes called sociopathy, is a mental disorder in which a person consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others. People with antisocial personality disorder tend to antagonize, manipulate or treat others harshly or with callous indifference. They show no guilt or remorse for their behavior. Those with antisocial personality disorder tend to lie, break laws, act impulsively, and lack regard for their own safety or the safety of others. Symptoms may lessen with age.

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The closing of large asylums by providing people to stay in their communities and be treated locally. Mistreatment and malpractice led to the downfall of the asylums

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A Talk therapy based on belief that the unconscious and childhood conflicts impact behavior - Patient talks about his past Play therapy Psychoanalytical therapy wherein interaction with toys is used instead of talk; used in child therapy Patient (child) acts out family scenes with dolls Behavior therapy Principles of learning applied to change undesirable behaviors Patient learns to overcome fear of elevators through several stages of relaxation techniques Cognitive therapy Awareness of cognitive process helps patients eliminate thought patterns that lead to distress Patient learns not to overgeneralize failure based on single failure Cognitive-behavioral therapyWork to change cognitive distortions and self-defeating behaviors Patient learns to identify self-defeating behaviors to overcome an eating disorder Humanistic therapy Increase self-awareness and acceptance through focus on conscious thoughts Patient learns to articulate thoughts that keep her from achieving her goals Medications used to treat psychological disorders are called psychotropic medications and are prescribed by medical doctors, including psychiatrists.

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individual therapy, also known as individual psychotherapy or individual counseling, the client and clinician meet one-on-one The clinician will work with clients to help them explore their feelings, work through life challenges, identify aspects of themselves and their lives that they wish to change, and set goals to help them work towards these changes. In group therapy, a clinician meets together with several clients with similar problems One benefit of group therapy is that it can help decrease a client’s shame and isolation about a problem while offering needed support, both from the therapist and other members of the group Couples therapy involves two people in an intimate relationship who are having difficulties and are trying to resolve them Family therapy is a special form of group therapy, consisting of one or more families. Although there are many theoretical orientations in family therapy, one of the most predominant is the systems approach. The family is viewed as an organized system, and each individual within the family is a contributing member who creates and maintains processes within the system that shape behavior

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embodied cognition is an approach that explores how our unique physiology informs how we understand the world. Embodied cognition theorists challenge mind-body dualism, and argue that there is a closer connection between our bodies and our minds than we realize. They argue that the content and structure of our minds is deeply tied to our physical experience. we describe and make sense of our world through metaphors drawn from embodied experience. As beings living in and through a physical world, we directly experience such concepts as up, down, front, back, in, out, near, far, bright, dark, hard, soft, light, heavy, and so on. From these basic concepts we are able to build up a world of metaphors.

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expressive individualism. Expressive individualism assumes that personal authenticity is our highest priority, and that moral autonomy is the highest good in life. The best way to explore expressive individualism is to discuss the work of the famous psychologist Carl Rogers Carl Rogers theory of the real self and ideal self and incongruencia

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Therapeutic deism is worldview that treats God like a master therapist who helps us feel happy about ourselves. Believing that all we need to do is ask god for healing but doing anything ourselves From the worldview of therapeutic deism, love is incompatible with moral discernment. From this view, a mother who weeps when her children leave the Church or commit sin is failing to fully love them, because she is not affirming her children’s choices

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We are always motivated by what we perceive to be in our own self interest Freud’s theories and psychoanalytic approach to psychology

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hedonism is simply the philosophical assumption that pleasure, satisfaction, and personal fulfillment are life’s highest goods, and that pain and suffering are inherent evils to be avoided. For example, most psychological perspectives operationalize the success of any particular therapy or intervention, for example, as the decrease of negative emotions. Therapy is considered successful if clients report an increase in positive emotions.

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Determinism that all our behaviors are triggered by environmental stimuli Indeterminism that all our behavior is completely random and not effected by anything Behaviorism theory is very into determinism

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