PSYCH LF PART 1 Flashcards
SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY
Sought to analyze the adult mind defined as the sum total of experiences from birth to present in terms of the simplest definable components.
“Physical Framework”
“Analyze Consciousness”
“mental processes”
“consciousness=introspection”
Structuralism
Two person involved in Structuralism
Wilhelm Wundt
Edward Titchner
Who coined the term structuralism?
Edward Titchner
Self observation of One’s own experience
Introspection
It is the process of examining and measuring mental activities.
Developed by Wilhelm Wundt
Objective Introspection
Father of Scientific Psychology
Established the first psychological laboratory in the university of Leipzig, Germany
Founded Psychology as a scientific discipline
Wilhelm Wundt
States that the mind is made up of building blocks in the form of various types of sensation and perception and these building blocks could be discovered through introspection ( looking into one’s own mind )
STRUCTURALISM
SCHOOLS OF PSYCHOLOGY
“EVOLUTIONARY FRAMEWORK”
Developed in the U.S
Study how the mind works so that an organism can adapt to and function on its environment.
FUNCTIONALISM
What is functionalism’s most important contribution?
Changing the focus of psychology to
Learning
Motivation
Thinking
He objected structuralism and believed that psychology should focus on reflexes or behaviors instead of internal or mental event.
William James
Founder of functionalism which investigates the function or purpose of consciousness rather than its structure.
William James
The ability of the mind to make a body work ( conciseness x behavior )
Functionalism
Keyword : “unconscious”
Psychoanalysis
Two personalities associated with Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
States that libido is not only sex drive but also will to succeed.
Carl Jung
Famous physician and psychiatrist who attempted to find the cause and cure of personality disorders.
Postulated the existence of UNCONSCIOUS MENTAL PROCESS
“LIBIDO”
His theories emphasized the importance of unconscious mind, childhood experience, dreams and symbolism
SIGMUND FREUD
WHAT ARE THE THREE LEVELS OF CONCIOUSNESS
CONSCIOUS
PRE CONSCIOUS
UNCONSCIOUS
STRUCTURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- DEALS WITH REALITY
EGO (conscious)
STRUCTURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- deals with VALUES and IDEALS
superego (preconscious and unconscious)
STRUCTURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS:
deals with PRIMAL URGES (instincts)
ID (preconscious and unconscious)
Sigmund’s method of treatment is called ________ which emphasizes the free association.
PSYCHOANALYSIS or PSYCHOTHERAPY
Patient freely associate on his thoughts and experiences and with the help of psychiatrist analyzes the causes of difficulties.
PSYCHOANALYSIS
States that personality develops through a series of childhood stages in which the pleasure seeking energies of the ID become focused on certain erogenous areas.
PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT:
Characterized as an area of the body that is particularly sensitive to stimulation.
Erogenous Zone
PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT:
birth to one year
mouth
ORAL STAGE
PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
1 - 3 years
bowel and bladder control
ANAL STAGE
PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
3-6 years
genitals
learn the difference between male and female
sexuality
PHALLIC STAGE
PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
sexual feelings are inactive
puberty
LATENT PERIOD
PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
Puberty to death
maturing sexual interest
GENITAL STAGE
POSTULATED DEFENSE MECHANISMS
Anna Freud
Any group of mental processes that enables the mind to reach compromise solutions to conflicts that is unable to resolve.
Defense Mechanisms
What are the three clusters of defense mechanisms
NARCISSISTIC
IMMATURE
ANXIETY/ NEUROTIC
What are defense mechanism under NARCISSISTIC CLUSTER
PROJECTION
DENIAL
SPLITTING
“all good or all bad”
“black or white; no grays”
- The nurses from the day shift are great
The nurses from the night shift sucks.
SPLITTING
The conscious refusal to perceive that painful facts exist.
“avoid becoming aware of painful reality”
Ex. Not accepting the fact that she is diagnosed with cancer
DENIAL
Attribute feelings or thoughts to someone else.
A form of defense mechanism in which unwanted feelings are displaced onto another person, where they appear as a threat form the external world.
Ex. “ I don’t like a boy named Mike, and I say “ I know that dude hates me, I know it! “
PROJECTION
What are the defense mechanism under IMMATURE
BLOCKING
REGRESSION
SOMATIZATION
INTROJECTION
PSYCH PROBLEM BECOMES PHYSICAL
“I had a terrible headache during the exam “
SOMATIZATION
UNCONSCIOUS IMITATION
” The physician acts and dresses like the attending physician he admires the most “
INTROJECTION
TEMPORARY INABILITY TO REMEMBER
” I don’t remember his name, It’s on the tip of my tongue”
Blocking
A return to earlier stages of development and abandoned forms of gratification belonging to them, prompted by dangers or conflicts arising at one of the later stages. (going back to a child like stage)
“My 7 years old is bedwetting again, since he found out he is having a sister”
REGRESSION
DEFENSE MECHANISMS UNDER ANXIETY
ACTING OUT DISPLACEMENT DISSOCIATION UNDOING REPRESSION RATIONALIZATION REACTION FORMATION ISOLATION EFFECT INTELLECTUALIZATION PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE
The redirection of an impulse usually aggression onto a powerless substitute target.
Addressing threatening feelings to less threatening people or objects.
“My dad was angry with my mother, and started yelling to my baby sister”
Displacement
The withdrawal from consciousness of an unwanted idea, affect or desire by pushing it down or repressing it into unconscious part of the mind. (subduing/not addressing the problem)
REPRESSION
Reality accepted without emotional response.
Isolation of affect.
Use of intellectual processes to avoid affective expression.
Intellectualization.
The cognitive distortion of the facts to make an event or an impulse less threatening. ROBIN HOOD MENTALITY
ex. I did not pass the exam cause it is way more difficult than the other years.
Rationalization
Emotional outburst.
Covers up reality.
TEMPER TANTRUMS
Acting Out
Unacceptable impulse turned into opposite.
Ex. Pyromaniac becomes a firefighter.
Reaction Formation
The ACTION of reaction formation.
Acting Out the reverse of the unacceptable behavior.
Ex. Pyromaniac putting down fire.
Undoing
Unconscious passive hostility.
ex. She agreed to share notes with me but after class, she went straight home.
Passive Aggressive
Separate from one’s experience;
Like outer body experience
Ex. When woman was being raped, she felt like watching it from above
Dissociation
Expression of thoughts or feelings without discomfort
Ex. Im gonna die forever alone HAHAHA
Humor
Healthiest of Mechanism.
Diversion of INSTINCTUAL drives, usually sexual ones, into non instinctual channels. (Conversion of something negative to positive)
Ex. Pyromaniac starts working in a special fx company where he can blow things up.
Sublimation
Conscious forgetting.
Ex. I’d rather forget that my dog was ran over by a car.
Suppression
Any physiological service provided by a trained personnel that primarily uses forms of communication and interaction to ASSESS, DIAGNOSE, AND TREAT dysfunctional emotions, thinking and behavior.
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis was invented by?
Sigmund Freud
A pxt’s displacement or projection ONTO the ANALYST of those unconscious feelings originally directed toward important individuals (parents) in the pxt’s childhood.
TRANSFERENCE
The therapist’s unconscious rxn’s to the pxt’s transference.
Countertransference
Personalities involved in Gestalt Psychology
Koffka
Kohler
Wertheimer
believed that behavior is not determined by their individual elements but from the nature of the whole.
Max Wertheimer
States that the WHOLE is greater than the sum of its parts.
Wolfgang Kohler