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psychology unit Flashcards

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Psychodynamic Theory

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resolving a patient’s conflicted conscious and unconscious feelings

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Sigmund Freud

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believed our problems in life come from unresolved problems from childhood

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psychoanalytic theory

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Freud; all human behaviour is influenced by early childhood

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Id

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instinctual part of the mind, pleasure principle

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Ego

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rational part of the mind, reality principle

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SuperEgo

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moral centre of the mind

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Denial

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refusing to accept the truth of a fact

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Projection

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blaming someone else

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Displacement

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putting the blame in the wrong place

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Reaction formation:

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act opposite of how you really feel because your ashamed

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regression

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acting like a child

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Rationalization:

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justify what you did wrong

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Sublimation:

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going to a rage room

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Psychosexual development:

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stages that kids grow up through that’s fixed on a different part of the body that must be resolved to advance.

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Oral

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: placing things in the mouth, conflict; child being weaned off mothers breast, fixation: overeating

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Anal

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Bowel pleasure, conflict; child is potty trained, fixation: perfection

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Phallic:

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awareness of sexual organs, most important stage, fixation: poor relationships

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18
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Latency:

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least sexual drive, same-sex friendships, fixation: lack of friends

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19
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Gential

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interest in dating and marriage, fixation: poor sexual relationships

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20
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Karen Horney

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founder of feminine psychology

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Carl Jung

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disagreed with freud, founder of analytical psychology: balancing id ego superego

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22
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Dreams

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during REM sleep, We dream to:
Fulfill wishes
To remember
To forget
To keep brain working
To rehearse
To heal
To solve problems

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Behavioral psychology

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evidence based on observable behavior.

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Innate behavior

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Determined by genetics
Built in instincts

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Learned behavior

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Determined by experiences or environment
Based on parental influences and observations of society

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Conditional learning:

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stimuli that triggers behaviour

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Unconditioned response

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natural response to stimuli

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conditioned stimulus:

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originally neutral stimulus that triggers a conditioned response after being paired with an unconditioned stimulus.

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unconditioned stimulus:

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stimulus that naturally triggers a biological response

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Conditioned response

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: learned response to a previously neutral stimulus

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Classical conditioning

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a CONDITIONED RESPONSE to a newly CONDITIONED STIMULUS

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Pavlov’s Dogs:

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Sight of food caused dog to salivate
Pavlov rang a bell before feeding dog, eventually the sound of the bell combined with presence of food made dog salivate
The bell became a conditioned stimulus
Later the dog would salivate from just hearing the bell

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operant conditioning:

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B.F. Skinner uses rewards and punishment to achieve a desired behavior.

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The Skinner Box

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Placed rat in a cage
Rat pressed lever
Got rewarded for behaviors
Continued to press lever

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Humanistic psychology:

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clients should be involved in their own recovery rather than relying just on the therapist’s interpretation of the issues.

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Abraham Maslow:

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founder of humanistic; studied well people instead of sick people. hierarchy of needs

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Hierarchy of Needs

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basic needs must be met first before we can consider satisfying other needs
BASIC NEEDS:
Physiological needs - basic necessities
Safety needs - security
PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS:
Belongingness and love needs - intimate relationships
Esteem needs - confidence, accomplishment
SELF-FULFILLMENT NEEDS:
Self-actualization: achieving one’s full potential, find purpose

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Viktor Frankl:

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observed that those who survived in the concentration camps did so because they had something to hold on to/live for

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Logotherapy:

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made by Viktor Frankl. tries to help the patient find the meaning of their own life without the medicine

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Client-centered therapy:

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humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers in which the client plays an active role

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Cognitive psychology:

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The study and application of how the brain learns.

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BoBo Doll experiment:

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Some children watched adults hit a doll with a ax
These Children were placed in a room to interact with the same doll
Some children behaved violently towards the doll just like the adults, and did even worse

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Albert Bandura:

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believes people learn behaviors by watching then imitating others

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Elizabeth Loftus

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Believed repressed memories rarely exist and can be created through the power of suggestion - false memories

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Witness testimonies:

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false memories make humans unreliable, especially claims during an investigation.

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Lost-in-mall-experiment:

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Participants were read stories of real events from their childhood, as well as one fake story about being lost in a mall
Most participants claimed to remember the false story from their childhood

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Why are most people right handed:

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they are left brain dominant

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The Brain:

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Left hemisphere: reasoning, number skills, taught in society
Right: hemisphere: artsy, not taught in society

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Why is the left hemisphere always dominant?

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Its taught more

50
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Mental health:

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maintenance of successful mental activity, cope with stress

51
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brain disorder

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Caused by genetics + environment =

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Mental illness:

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occurs when the brain is working in the wrong way.

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Heredity:

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aspects of personality and behavior that are passed down genetically.

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Environment:

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Many factors in your environment can have an influence on your development

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Nature:

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how genetics influence an individual’s personality

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Nurture

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how their environment (including relationships and experiences) impacts their development.

57
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Schizophrenia

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A mental illness that affects that way you think, feel, and behave
causes: could be a combination of physical, genetic, psychological, and environmental factors
symptoms: Hallucinations, delusions, thought disorder, disorganized thinking
behaviours: Difficulty with attention, memory, and organization
Stigmas: violent, out of control,
Remove the stigma: educate, be mindful, include everyone
Therapies available: cognitive therapy, psychotherapy, art therapy

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OCD

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experience obsessions, compulsions, or both. Experience recurring thoughts, repetitive behaviours
Causes: learned behaviors, genetics, abnormalities in the brain
Symptoms: anxiety, compulsion, intrusive thoughts
Behaviors: washing hands, checking, counting, ordering
Stigmas: crazy, violent, distrustful
Therapies: cognitive behavioural therapy, one on one therapy

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