Psychology Flashcards
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Jeffrey Dahmer
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-drugged
- strangled
- detached body parts
-ate the victims
-thrill of killing
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what is psychology?
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-the study of the human mind and its mental states
-the way our brain works
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schools of thought
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- psychodynamic theory
- behavioural psychologists
- humanist
- cognitive
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psychodynamic theory
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- an approach to therapy that focuses on resolving a patients conflicted conscious and unconscious feelings
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theorist: Sigmund Freud
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- well known for his conception of human consciousness: the id, the ego, and the super ego
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theorist: Karen Horney
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- argued that women were pushed by society and culture to depend on men
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theorist: Carl Jung
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- to understand motivation based on the conscious and unconscious mind
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Area: The Psychology of Dreams
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- discovery of rapid eye movement is shown to be important in helping us consolidate the days important events
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Behavioural psychologists
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- another branch of psychology that was common in the first half of the twentieth century
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theorist: Ivan Pavlov
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- studied the digestive system
- did research with dogs, dogs would drool when given food, but then they started to notice the dog would drool at other times aswell
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B.F. Skinner
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- used rats and pigeons to study how the use of rewards and punishment can influence behaviour
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Impact of behaviourism
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- behaviour can be controlled using positive and negative reinforcement methods
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Humanist
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- believe that the client should be very involved in his or her own recovery rather then relying only on the therapists interpretation of the issues
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characteristics of a serial killer
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- personality disorders
- predatory aggression/disoder
- manipulative
- no remorse
- a need for control
- Traumatic childhood
- vain and narcissistic
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serial killers…
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- kill three or more people within thirty days
- have a cooling off period between killings
