Psychology test Flashcards
Psychology
Study of human mind and its mental state
Therapy, talking
Don’t need MD, but needs PhD
Psychologist
aim to describe, predict, and control behaviour and mental processes
Needs MD
Aristotle
pondered human consciousness
Rhazes
late 800’s, persian doctor Rhazes was the first person to describe mental illness
The major schools of psychology
- Behaviourism
- Psychoanalysis
- Humanism
- Cognitive
Psychology essentials
psychoanalytic/psychodynamic
studied unconsious mind
studied kids, relationships, personality
The biosocial model
Body and mind always interfere with each other
science seeks objectivity and truth
accuracy depends on the relativity of the truth in a specific culture
Sigmund Freud
First psychologist
Believed that our unconsious mind holds weird thoughts
DEFENSE MECHANISMS
Freud believed ego distorted reality to deal with anxiety
He had people say anything they want, and he didn’t ask questions
That’s free association
SLEEP
believed our dreams are a collection of images from our daily lives
dreams have symbolic meaning
1) fulfill wishes
2) unconsious conflicts
3) repression
4) defense mechanisms
5) unconsious learning
6) emotional regulation
7) communication with the unconsious
Rehearsal theory: we dream to practice fight or flight responses, defense mechanisms
Latent content: hidden content of a dream
Manifest content: storyline of events that occur during a dream, per freud’s view of the function of dreams
Believed that dreams were repressed sexual desires
Boys: oedipus complex: male child is attracted to mother
Girls: electra complex: opposite
Acting naturally
Freud proposed that people are more aggressive and have similar aggressive instincts to identical twins
Higher testosteron in both men and women when committing crimes with anger
Carl Jung
Student of Freud, believed that our unconsious mind includes patterns of memories, instincts, and experiments
Disagreed with freud about defense mechanisms
Founded analytic psychology- balancing person’s psyche
a way to understand motivation on consious and unconsious mind
came up with an idea that people are either introverted or extroverted
DREAMS
disagreed with freud about dreams being repressed sexual desires
he believed dreams were symbols that attempt to communicate with the unconsious mind
Activation-synthesis theory: dreams don’t mean anything
Collective unconsious: information shared by all people across cultures
Continual activation theory: processing dreams during REM sleep
Threat simulation theory: defense mechanisms, dreams keep us prepared for dangerous situations, early primates dreamed like this. This is a reflex that early primates have, since they live on trees, so they have fall reflex
PERSONALITY
believed everyone is either introvert and extrovert
4 functional types:
1. thinking (uses reason)
2. feeling (uses emotions)
3. sensations (uses all 5 senses)
4. intuition (uses perception)
Unconsious mind
processes are unaware of
refers to information processing in our mind that we are unaware of
The ego- rational part of the mind, often supresses the urges of the id
The id- pleasure part of mind
The superego- moral part of mind
Two parts to unconsious mind
personal- memories from ancestors
collective- universal archetypes
Consious mind
processing what we are aware of
Branches of psychology
Experimental psychologists (labs, research)
Applied psychologist (applying research on the setting, scenarios)
Clinical psychologist (clinical therapy)
Stanley kripper
Altering consiousness (like hypothesis)
rapture- self of good emotion, like wanting to dance, sex, drugs, both dancing and sex give same pleasure
Trance: alrt, focused on single stimulus
Day-dreaming: thinking about something that has nothing to do with your tasks at hand
Theorists
Treat and provide therapy for the mind
Goal: unlock the unconsious mind
Both consious and unconsious mind are affected by early childhood
Expanded consiousness
Broadening your focus, can be with medication and drug use
TYPES:
Sensory- very aware of space, change, and mind as your body is taking in more that its used to
Recollective analytic- you are shocked/awake
symbolic: like sighing as you see something is a symbol
Integral- supernatural experience, ghosts
Dreams
Why do we dream?
There isn’t a specific reason
We all dream 100s of times per night to keep our brain working
Defense mechanisms
Freud believed ego distorted reality to deal with anxiety
He had people say anything they want, and he didn’t ask questions
That’s free association
conceptualization
proposition- say things to combine concepts
\mental model- clustering thoughts helps you understand how things work
Schemas- organizing mental models into larger groups
Karen Horney
Neo-freudian
sexual desires are not who you were
she said that this doesn’t support how women think (defense mechanisms)
First one to introduce feminine psychology
personality
Studied by ancient Greek philosophers
Yellow bile: irritable
Black bile: depression
Bloody bile: optimism
Phlegm: calm
Problem solving (Newell and simon)
- recognizing a problem exists
- constricting representation of a problem and its goal
- generating and evaluating possible solutions
- selecting a solution to attempt
- Executing the solution and evaluating how it worked
Types of consiousness
Normal
confusion- not as attentive, not looking at something clearly
Drowsiness and stupor- not alert and concentrated
coma- being asleep without control
Antonio Damasio
Consiousness of protoself awareness of bodily states and “here and now” moment by moment
Consiousness of core-self- including a sense of me and self
Sleep
Ekctrophysilogical activity
awake
Step 1: closing your eyes, alpha frequency, 10 mins
Step 2: asleep but don’t think you are sleeping
Step 3: 1.5 hours of semi-sleep
Step 4: rapid eye movement (REM), part of the brain is active but disconnected from skeletal muscle systems
Sleeping disorders
Dysomnia- difficulty sleeping, cognitive
Hypersomnia- too much sleep, cognitive
Narcolepsy- sleeping randomly, cognitive
Parasomnia- body does things at wrong time, bad dreams that cause stress on body like night terrors
Sleep walking- walking around with eyes open and asleep, cognitive
Sleep apnia- stop breathing when sleeping, not cognitive
Rehearsal theory
we dream to practice fight or flight responses, defense mechanisms
Thinking
computing- manipulation of symbols
Representing- a symbol in the mind
Aprontasin- unable to make an image in your mind
processing:
1. stimulus information- from your senses reach your brain
2. the information is analyzed
3. different responses are generated
4. make a response
Types of processing:
input, memory, operational, output
Viktor Frankl
Disagrees woth Maslow about pyramid
survived holocaust
he said you should look at life with therapies people need instead of needs
he said that logo therapy helps
Memory
Sensory memory: a split-second memory system that stores information coming in through senses
Short-term memory: walking memory when you remember 2-7 things right away
Long-term memory: repeat things until you learn it
Elaboritive-rehearsal- remember any/most things you are interested in, and you don’t remeber things most of the time that you aren’t inetersted in
Episodic-memory: marriage, birthday, graduation, etc.
Semantic memory: information on how to do things like riding a bike
factors of intelligence
G-factor: general intelligence, everyone has some but some have more
S-factor: ability within one area
Attention
focused attention: concentrated on one source of input
Daniel simons and Christopher Chabis created the monkey experiment
Divided attention- focus on two or more inputs
Forgetting
retroactive interference: hard time remembering old information because of new information
Proactive interference: hard time remembering new information because of old information
Fixed action patterns
Key stimuli that are fixed and automatic
Konrad loren- imprinting
Imprinting- boding instinct between young animal and its parents
Problem solving (Bransford and stein)
I- identify the problem
D- define and represent the problem
E- explore possible strategies
A- action
L- look back and evaluate the effects
Triachtic theory of intelligence
Robert stenberg
componential- textbook idea of general intelligence, like tests and memory
experientual- problem-solving
contextual- street smarts
Decision making
choosing to act on something
Amos tversky and daniel kanneman- studied heuristic decision making
representative herusitic: making a choice based on the situation being similar to another situation
Availability heuristic: making decisions on how easily or readily available information is
Carl rogers
CCT- therapy thing
He agreed with frankl, but he argued that people are inheritly good
He focused on trauma
Said it depends on people and how they grow
Steps of reasoning
Premis: statements about objects
Conclusion: making/assuming something based on premis
Inductive reasoning: inference by proving something with logic
Deductive reasoning: using evidence to prove something
Multiple intelligence theory
Howard gardener
Bodily kinesthetic ability
Musical ability
Spatial ability
Linguistic ability
Logical-mathematical ability
Interpersonal ability
Intrapersonal ability
Giftedness
Selective-coding: picking out relevant and irrelevant info
Selective combination: problem solving by combining elements
Selective comparison: discovering new and nonobvious connection between old and new
feelings
An instict is something that’s automatic, and it affects our feelings
James MacDougall
Believed that instincts affect us, because we have reasons to why we have those insticts
Clark Hall
Drive reduction theory: people react and do things to satisfy their needs
Genrated from homeostasis and equilibrium restortion
types of drive:
1. primary: survival, most of decisions, feelings
2. secondary: social groups and cultures
Abraham maslow
Considered one of the founding fathers of humanitist psychology
Self-actualizing and their peak experiences
Full potential
Hierchy of needs: people’s needs have to be met
you don’t get until the top of the pyramid until you are older
pyramid:
self-actualizing
esteem
social
safety
physiological
Expectancy theory
You do something when you expect an award
Optimal level of arousal theory
You do things to maximalize the level of arousal, and not to satisfy needs. This is what drives you for maximum arousal
The rescoula-wagner model
in order for a conditioned response to be maximally affected, the unconditioned stimulus must be unexpected
The learning element is dependent on surprise
Incentive theory
You do something not to be punished
Opponent process theory
People are motivated by not the initial purpose, but the reaction