Psych People

Question 1

John Bowlby

Answer 1

attachment theory, secure/insecure

Question 2

Carl Jung

Answer 2

growth of personality, individuation
founded the school of analytic psychology. It focused on the growth of the personality through one’s experiences.
“collective unconscious” and “archetypes”

Question 3

Harry Sullivan

Answer 3

human development a function of societal development

Question 4

Erik Erikson

Answer 4

multistage lifecycle, infant to grave
Most common PRITE Qs:
1. integrity: geri pt with satisfaction about life
2. industry vs inferiority: child proud of learning new skill
3. 40-60yo pts want to feel useful to society through behaviors that protect the future
4. autonomy vs shame/doubt = anal phase, OCD related to this phase

Question 5

Jean Piaget

Answer 5

cognitive development theory, concrete operations, conservation, moral reasoning

Question 6

Winnicott

Answer 6

“good enough mother”

Question 7

Kraepelin

Answer 7

dementia praecox, different mental disorders have different outcomes

Question 8

Bleuler

Answer 8

renamed dementia praecox as schizophrenia, said not always deteriorating disease

Question 9

Siggy Freud

Answer 9

classical psychoanalysis, Drive Theory
Primary Process Thinking: unconscious thoughts that do not maintain logical connections
Use of hypnosis, later replaced by free association
MC PRITE Qs: 1. phallic stage: oedipus/electra 3-6yo, and 2. latency stage: play with same-sex peers 6-12yo

Question 10

Kohut

Answer 10

narcissism and self-psychology
empathic failures in the mother lead to developmental arrest in the child at a stage when the child needs others to help perform self-object functions

Question 11

Beck

Answer 11

CBT, cognitive distortion

Question 12

Skinner

Answer 12

use of positive and negative reinforcement is part of operant conditioning developed by Skinner.

Question 13

Bandura

Answer 13

social learning theory, which says we learn through modeling others and through social interaction.

Question 14

Anna Freud

Answer 14

wrote The Ego and Mechanisms of Defense: regression, repression, reaction-formation, projection, sublimation

Question 15

Kohlberg

Answer 15

stages of moral development

Question 16

Martin Seligman

Answer 16

Learned helplessness is seen in depression; after repeated failing, see yourself as a failure, destined to fail.

Question 17

Harry Harlow

Answer 17

Rhesus monkeys in partial isolation (can see, hear other monkeys) –> stare vacantly into space, engage in self-mutilation
In total isolation, mother-only, or peer-only –> fearful and unable to engage normally
Separated from mother –> protest and despair

Question 18

Kübler-Ross

Answer 18

Stages of Death Reaction
1. shock/denial
2. anger –> self-blame and “why me”
3. bargaining
4. depression –> look for sleep issues/SI
5. acceptance

Question 19

Nikolaas Tinbergen

Answer 19

worked on measuring the power of certain stimuli to elicit specific behaviors from animals, displacement activities, innate release mechanisms, autism

Question 20

Konrad Lorenz

Answer 20

Imprinting implies an animal is sensitive to certain stimuli –> specific behavior response

Question 21

Melanie Klein

Answer 21

Object relations theory: schizoid, paranoid, and depressive positions as well as tension between the true and the false self.