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Psychology Flashcards

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a subfield of psychology that provides psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine

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health psychology

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an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavior and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease

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behavior medicine

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the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging

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stress

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Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three stages- alarm, resistance, exhaustion

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General Adaptation Syndrome

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the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries

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coronary heart disease

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Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitve, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive and anger-prone people

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Type A

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Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxes people

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Type B

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“mind-body” illness; any stress-related physical illness

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psychophysical illness

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the two types of white blood cells that are part of the body’s immune system

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lymphocytes

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sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety

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aerobic exercise

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a system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension

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biofeedback

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unproven health care treatments hot taught widely in medical schools, not used in medical schools, not used in hospitals, and not usually reimbursed by insurance companies

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complementary and alternative medicine

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an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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personality

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in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing

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free association

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Freud’s theory of personality that attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts

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psychoanalysis

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according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories

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unconscious

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contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification

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Id

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operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id’s desires in ways that will desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain

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ego

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represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for future aspirations

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superego

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the childhood stages of development during which the ids pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones

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psychosexual stages

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a boy’s sexual desire toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father

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Oedipus complex

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the process by which children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos

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identification

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a lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, where conflicts were unresolved

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fixation

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the ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

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defense mechanisms

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the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thougts, feelings, and memories from consciousness

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repression

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defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage

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regression

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ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites

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reaction formation

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people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others

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projection

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defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one’s actions

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rationalization

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shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person,as when redirecting anger, toward a safer outlet

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displacement

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a personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics

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projective test

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a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests thought the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes

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TAT

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the most widely used projective test, inkblots, seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots

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Rorschach inkblot test

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Jung’s concept of a shared inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species’ history

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collective unconscious

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according to Maslow, the ultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieed; the motivation to fulfill one’s potential

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self-actualization

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according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person

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unconditional positive regard

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all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, “who am I?”

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self concept

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a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and ehaviors; used to assess selected personality traits

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personality inventory

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the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests

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MMPI

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a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups

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empirically derived test

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views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons and their social context

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socail-cognitive perspective

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the interacting influences between personality and environmental factors

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reciprocal determinism

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our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless

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personal control

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the perception that chance of outside forces beyond one’s personal control determine one’s fate

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external locus of control

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the perception that one controls one’s own fate

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internal locus of control

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the hopelessness and passive resignatiom, an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events

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learned helplessness

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overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders

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spotlight effect

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one’s feelings of high or low self-worth

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self-esteem

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a readiness to perceive oneself favorably

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self-serving bias

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giving priority to one’s own goals over group goals and defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifiations

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individualism

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giving priority to the goals of one’s group and defining one’s identity accordingly

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collectivism

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proposes that faith in one’s worldview and the pursuit of self-esteem provide protection against a deeply routed fear of death

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terror-management theory

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