Psychology Flashcards
Attribution Theory
INDIVIDUALS who tend to ATTRIBUTE their FAILURES to INTERNAL, stable and global factors are more vulnerable to clinical DEPRESSION
Fundamental Attribution Error
Tendency people have to OVEREMPHASIS PERSONAL characteristics and ignore situational factors in JUDGING OTHERS’ behaviour
Identity Diffusion
Not explored or committed to identity options.
Identity Foreclosure
Has not explored but has committed.
Identity Moratorium
Has explored, has not committed. Moratorium = temporary suspension.
Identity Achievement
Has explored, has committed.
Assimillation
Give up original culture. Adopt new one. Melting pot is less intense - dominant culture is diluted.
Acculturation
Cultural and psychological change as a result of contact between two cultures.
Stranger anxiety age
6 months
Resistance in Psychoanalysis
UNCONSCIOUS reluctance to continue therapy
In Pyschoanalytic theory roots of neurosis are..
Related to childhood experience
Transferance is..
Displacement of emotions from childhood experiences