Psych Perspective Flashcards

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Scientific study of how people behave, think, and feel

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Psychology

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Study of mental processes and human behavior

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Psychology

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TWO CATEGORIES OF BEHAVIOR

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Covert
Overt

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Internal and invisible, such as having feelings and thoughts [behavior]

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Covert

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Can be observed, such as the manner of talking, walking, or acting of a person [behavior]

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Overt

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TWO ASPECTS OF SELF

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I
Me

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The thinking, acting, and feeling self

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I

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The one who acts and decide

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I

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The physical characteristics as well as the psychological capabilities that makes who you are

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Me

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What you think or feel about yourself as an object

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Me

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It is composed of personal characteristics, social roles, and responsibilities, as affiliations that define who one is

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Identity

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It is what basically come to your mind when you are asked about who you are

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Self concept

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Specific area in the brain associated with the processes concerning the self

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Frontal lobe

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THREE COMPONENTS OF SELF CONCEPT

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Self image
Ideal self
Self esteem

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TWO TYPES OF SELF AWARENESS

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Private self
Public self

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It is who you are at the moment

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Actual self

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It is who you like to be

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Ideal self

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It is who you think you should be

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Ought self

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Tells that we learn about ourselves, the appropriateness of our behaviors, as well as our social status by comparing aspects of ourselves with other people

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Social comparison theory

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Comparing ourselves with others worse off than us to create a positive self-concept and raise self-esteem

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Downward social comparison

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Comparing ourselves with those who are better off than us

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Upward social comparison

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Proposed humans are motivated by a hierarchy of needs

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Abraham Maslow

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Highest level in hierarchy of needs

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Self-actualization

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HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
(SELSP)

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Self-actualization
Esteem
Love and belonging
Safety needs
Physiological needs

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“Life is a series of 8 stages from birth to death”
Erik Erikson
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Was a German-American Jewish social psychologist
Erich Fromm
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He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt school of critical theory
Erich Fromm
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Founder of psychoanalysis sociology
Erich Fromm
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Theory: personality based on birth order
Alfred Adler
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He studied schizophrenia extensively
Carl Jung
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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances”
Carl Jung
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He believed that all human beings fit into pre-existing primordial images called “archetypes”
Carl Jung
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Anima & Animus
Anima - feminine part if a man’s soul Animus - masculine part of a female’s soul
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Swiss psychiatrist who was a Freudian disciple; believed that we are one of two personality types
Carl Jung
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Shy, self-centered person whose attention is focused inward
Introvert
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Bold, outgoing person whose attention is directed outward
Extrovert
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“The American woman is different from the German woman. Specific cultural conditions engender specific qualities and faculties in women as in men”
Karen Horney
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Known for developing technique of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
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THREE COMPONENT PARTS IF THE MIND ACCORDING TO FREUD’S THEORY OF PERSONALITY
Id Ego Superego
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Operates on instinctual drives and the pleasure principle
Id
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Mediates between desires and reality, seeking practicality
Ego
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Enforces moral standards and acts as the conscience
Superego
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Feelings of desire for opposite sex parent
Oedipus complex
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Female equivalent of Oedipus complex
Electra complex
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[Defense mechanism] Strengthen one to hide another
Compensation
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[Defense mechanism] Refuse to face a negative behavior
Denial
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[Defense mechanism] Take it out on someone else
Displacement
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[Defense mechanism] Attach to something positive
Identification
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[Defense mechanism] Conform feelings of approval
Introjection
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[Defense mechanism] See your faults & foibles in others
Projection
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[Defense mechanism] Excuse and justify mistakes
Rationalization
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[Defense mechanism] Pretend you are different
Reaction formation
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[Defense mechanism] Act much younger to feel better
Regression
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[Defense mechanism] Putting things into darkness
Repression
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[Defense mechanism] Override negative with habit
Ritual & Undoing
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[Defense mechanism] Divert negative into acceptable
Sublimation