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Psychology Test Flashcards

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Personality

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the pattern of enduring characteristics that produce individuality in a person

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Psychodynamic approaches to personality

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personality is motivated by inner forces (Sigmund Freud)

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Psychoanalytic theory

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Freud’s theory that unconscious forces act as determinants of personality.

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The Unconscious

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a part of the personality that contains the memories, knowledge, beliefs,

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How many parts of ego according to Freud

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3 - Ego, Superego and Id

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What is Id

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the raw, unorganized, inborn part of personality created by primitive drives, selfishness, unconsious

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What is the Ego

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strives to balance the desires of the id and the outside world, makes decisions and controls actions

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What is the superego (perfectionist)

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represents the rights and wrongs of society, helps us control impulses coming from the id, making our behavior less selfish

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Psychosexual Stages

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Developmental periods that children pass through during which they encounter conflicts between the demands of society and their own sexual urges.

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Fixations

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Conflicts or concerns that persist beyond the developmental period in which they first occur.

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The oral stage

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At this stage, the baby’s mouth is the focal point of pleasure (from 12-18 months to 3 years of age)

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The anal stage

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A period when the emphasis in Western cultures is on toilet training (from 12-18 months to 3 years of age)

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The phallic stage

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Now interest focuses on the genitals and the pleasures derived from fondling them. (from 3 to 5-6 years of age)

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The latency period

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During this period, sexual interests become dormant (5 years - adolecence)

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The genital stage

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The focus during the genital stage is on mature, adult sexuality, which Freud defined as sexual intercourse. (Adolescence - death)

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Neo-Freudian psychoanalysts

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People trained in Freudian theories but later changed their minds about the theory.

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Collective Unconscious

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a common set of ideas, feelings, images, and symbols that we inherit from our ancestors

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Trait theory

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a model of personality that seeks to identify the basic traits necessary to describe personality.

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Traits

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consistent personality characteristics

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Social cognitive approaches to personality

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theories that emphasize the influence of a person’s cognitions

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Self-efficacy

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the belief in one’s personal capabilities

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Biological and evolutionary approaches to personality

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theories that suggest that important components of personality are inherited.

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Humanistic approaches to personality

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theories that emphasize people’s innate goodness and desire to achieve higher levels of functioning.

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Unconditional positive regard

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an attitude of acceptance and respect on the part of an observer

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(DSM-5)

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a system used by professionals to diagnose and classify abnormal behaviour.

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Specific phobia

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the intense, irrational fears of specific objects or situations.

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Specific phobia

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the intense, irrational fears of specific objects or situations.

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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

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the occurrence of long-term, persistent anxiety and worry.

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Compulsions

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irresistible urge to repeatedly carry out some act that seems strange and unreasonable

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SAD

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SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER

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Antisocial personality disorder

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a disorder in which individuals show no regard for the moral and ethical rules of society

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Borderline personality disorder

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a disorder in which individuals have difficulty developing a secure sense of who they are.

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Somatic Symptom Disorders

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psychological difficulties that take on a physical (somatic) form, but for which there is no medical cause.

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Conversion disorders

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disorder that involves an actual physical disturbance, such as the inability to use a sensory organ or the complete or partial inability to move an arm or leg

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Psychodynamic therapy

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seeks to bring unresolved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses from the unconscious into the conscious

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Psychoanalysis

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goal is to release hidden unconscious thoughts and feelings in order to reduce their power in controlling behaviour.

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Aversive conditioning

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pairing an unpleasant stimulus with undesired behaviour.

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Systematic desensitization

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a behavioural technique in which gradual exposure to an anxiety-producing stimulus is paired with relaxation to extinguish the response of anxiety

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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

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getting people to accept who they are, regardless of whether it matches their ideal.

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Community psychology

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a branch of psychology that focuses on the prevention and minimization of psychological disorders in the community.

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Deinstitutionalization

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he transfer of former mental patients from institutions to the community.

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Health psychology

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the branch of psychology that investigates the psychological factors related to wellness and illness

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Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)

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the study of the relationship among psychological factors, the immune system, and the brain.

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General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

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alarm and mobilization, resistance, and exhaustion.

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Type B behaviour

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Easy going

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Type A

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Competitve

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Type D Behaviour

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Stressful

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Reactance

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a negative emotional and cognitive reaction that result from the restriction of one’s freedom and that can be associated with medical regimens.

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