Psychology Flashcards

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Learning in which a natural response is elicited by a conditioned, or learned stimulus that previously was presented in conjunction with an unconditioned stimulus

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Classical Conditioning

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Conditioning that deals with involuntary responses

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Classical Conditioning

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Learning in which a particular action is elicited because it produces a punishment or reward. Deals with voluntary responses

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Operant Conditioning

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Desired reward poduces action (mouse presses button to get food)

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Positive Reinforcement

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Target behavior (response) is followed by removal of aversive stimulus (mouse presses button to turn off continuous loud noise)

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Negative Reinforcement

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Punishment

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Lecom, just kidding, Repeated application of aversive stimulus extinguishes unwanted behavior

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Discontinuation of reinforcement (positive or negative) eventually eliminates behavior. Can occur in operant or classical conditioning.

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Extinction

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Patient projects feelings about formative or other important persons onto physician. Ex. psychiatrist is seen as parent

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Transference

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Doctor projects feelings about formative or other important persons onto patient. Ex. patient reminds physician of younger siblings

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Countertransference

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Unconscious mental processes used to resolve conflict and prevent undesirable feelings

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Ego defenses

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Expressing unacceptable feelings and thoughts through actions, Ex. Tantrums

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Acting Out

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Temporary, drastic change in personaility, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress, Ex. extreme forms can result is dissociative identitiy disorder

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Dissociation

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13
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Avoiding the awareness of some painful reality

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Denial

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Transferring acoided ideas and feelings to some neutral person or object; Ex mother yells at her child because her husband yelled at her

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Displacement

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Partially remaining at a more childish level of development like; Ex. men intensely watching sport games

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Fixation

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Modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful; Ex. abused child identifies with an abuser

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Identification

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Separating feelings from ideas and events; Ex. describing murder in graphic detail with no emotional response

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Attributing an unacceptable internal impulse to an external source; Ex. a man who wants another woman thinks his wife is cheating on him

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Projection

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Proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, usually to avoid self-blame; Ex. after getting fired, claiming that the job was not important anyway

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Rationalization

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Replacing a warded-off idea or feeling by an unconsciously derived emphasis on its opposite; Ex. Patient with sex throught enters a monastary

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Reaction Formation

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Turning back the maturation clock and going back to earlier modes of dealing with the world; a previously toilet trained kid when hospitalized

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Regression

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Involuntary withholding an idea or feeling from conscious awareness; Ex. not remembering a conflict or traumatic experience

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Repression

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Believing that people are either all god or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity. Ex. All nurses are mean and cold, doctors are warm and friendly

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Mature defenses

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Altruism, humor, sublimation and suppression

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Alleviating guilty feelings by unsolicited generosity toward others

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Appreciating the amusing nature of an anxiety-provoking or adverse situation; Ex. nervous medical student jokes about the boards

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Replacing an unacceptable wish with a course of action that is similar to the wish but does not conflict with one’s value system; Ex. teenager’s aggression toward his father is redirected to perform well in sports

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Sublimation

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Intentional withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness; Ex. Choosing to not to worry about test grades until they come out

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Suppression