Psych in film exam 1 Flashcards
- perpetuation of stigma
- attitude change
- accuracy of portrayal
- compare and contrast
- historical context
- professional ethics
- treatment
what are the types of psychology in film?
understanding…
- cultural norms and myths
- the film makers personal reality
- a specific moment in time
- fantasy
- spectatorship
- underlying meaning
- the characters psychologies
what are goals of using film to understand psychology?
the discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism’s physical state, mental state, and external enviornment
what is psychology?
reyling on evidence gathered by careful observation, eperimentation, or measurement
empirical
the ability and willingness to assess claims and make objective judgements on the basis of well-being supported reasons rather than emotion and anecdoate
critical thinking
ask questions
define your terms
examine the evidence
analyze assumptions and biases
don’t oversimplify
aviod emotonal reasoning
consider other interpretations
tolerate uncertainty
critical thinking guidelines
pleasure principle
id
reality principle
ego
moral right or wrong
super ego
denail
repression
regression
reaction formation
projection
rationalization
displacement
introjection
sublimation
defense mechanisms
becomes problematic when they don’t think it happened at all
denial
pushing thoughts out of our conscious
repression
psychologically distressed you to go back to a less mature time
- when men get sick they act like children
regression
what you are feeling you do the opposite
- the opposite of what you do is how you feel
reaction formation
the feeling is put on you not me, more feeling
projection
overly intellectualize what you desire/are thinking about
rationalization
you taking your frustration out on something else, more action
ex: fetuish
displacement
i internalize that which is fear
- you are the bully, so I be like you
introjection
converts or channels unexceptable
- most healthy defense mechanisms
sublimation
distress
disability
deviance
the three D’s
experiencing something that causes you distress
distress
impact to the point where you can’t function
- lower level of functioning
disability
deviate against sociaital norms
- the things to look out for when diagnosing
- don’t want to over or under diagnosis
deviance
- the danger of over diagnosis
- the power of diagnostic labels
- confusion of serious mental disorders with normal problems
- the illusion of objectivity and universality
concerns with diagnostic labels
a mood disorder involing disturbances in emotion (excessive sadness), behavior (loss of interest in one’s usual acitivities) cognition (thoughts of hopelessness) and body function (fatigue and loss of appetite)
major depression
- depressed mood
- reduced interest in almost all activites
- significant weight gain or loss
- sleeping too much or too little
fatigue
-feelings of worthlessness or guilt
symptoms of depression
psychomotor agitation
psychomotor retardation
vegetative symptoms
mood disorders
- chronic depressive disorder (dysthymia)
- prementrusal dysphooric disorder
- disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD)
depressive disorders
- bipolar disorder
- bipolar II disorder
- cyclothymia disorder
bipolar
