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Define psychopolitics

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Awareness of the role that political factors play within the domain of the psychological

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What are the 2 things that psychopolitics is an understanding of

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How politics impacts the psychological
How personal psychology may be the level at which politics is internalised

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What are the 3 objectives of Fanon’s analysis of the ‘psychic life of the colonial encounter’
SUE

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Subject such forms of power to critique
Understand them better
Effectively challenge them

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What 3 things does Fanon look to in accordance with the psychoanalytic theory regarding the dream of turning white
PUA

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Personality of the colonised
Underlying desire that motivates the dreams
Actions of the colonised

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The desire to be white is an outcome of what 3 things
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Real material
Economic, cultural and sociopolitical conditions
Specific configuration of power

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Fanon tracks the implications of wanting to be white over what 4 domains
LSBD

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Language
Sexuality
Behaviour
Dreams

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Define neurosis

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an emotional disordermwhich stems from the conflict between a fundamental impulse or wish and the need to repress this instinct

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Define Neurosis of blackness

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the dream of turning white caused by being in a black body in a racist society

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what should one look into when identifying the cause of neurotic distrubances

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Childhood history or infantile trauma

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Define catharsis

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psychological process where distressing or damaging material is rid of via an activity that externalises it

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Define collective catharis

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Catharsis on a mass social level

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Define scapegoating

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projection of blame onto another person or object who then becomes blameworthy or punishable

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Define projection

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when specific aspects of the self are imagined to be located in something/someone else.

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Define symptoms

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An irrational action which is a compromise between the need to express a repressed wish and the need to keep this wish repressed

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which 2 figuritive terms were developed to dramatize the strength of the 2 way relationship between psyche and society

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Internalisation and epidermalization

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Define internalisation

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the process where reality is understod as internal and subjective

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Define epidermalization

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emphasizes the transformation from economic inferiority to subjective inferiority

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What are the 2 basic psychoanalytic notions

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Phobic object and ambivalence

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Define phobic object

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Thing or person causing irrational feelings of dread, fear or hate

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Define phobogenic

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fear-causing person or object

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Define ambivalence

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the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone

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Define paranoid anxiety

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the irrational and persistent feeling that people are ‘out to get you’ or that you are the subject of persistent, intrusive attention by others

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Define collective unconscious

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the idea that all human beings share a supply of innate ideas or achetypes that are genetically supplied and universal

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Define archetypes

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universal motifs or patterns that form the collective unconscious

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Define the negro myth
a racist system of beliefs whereby white people believe black people symbolise all their lower emotions.
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Define racial distribution of guilt
racist cultural practices of scapegoating the racial other, of attempting to achieve a sense of superiority through the inferiorisation of another
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Define manichean thinking
an approach to culture where everything is split into binary opposites- positive (white) and negative (black)
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what 3 things are suggested by manichean thinking that reinforces racism that 2 such groups are...MES
Mutually opposed Effectively unbridgeable So different to one another
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What is the local level challenge of developing a south african psychology of gender
Representing indigenous experiences of gender development and identities
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What is the critical challenge of developing a south african psychology of gender
it problematises the construction of gender difference and equality
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Define heterosexist
Assumption that all sexuality refers to heterosexual practices and it is normal for these practices are between men and women
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Define homophobia
Rejection of homosexual practices and life styles
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Define unitary sexual character
the idea that masculinity and feminity exist as a collection of traits, roles, abilities and temperaments which are embedded in individual men and women
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the notion of unitary gender identitity ignores what 2 factors
the diversity of gendered experience across social identity It fixes individuals to a singular experience of their own gender
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Define difference discourse
the depiction of gender as difference (biological or social)
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define feminism
a large body of work that explores women's sub-ordination in male-dominated societies
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Define androcentric
a discipline or practice that is centred around men and masculinity
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Define socialisation
a focus on gender roles and gender stereotypes
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Define androgyny
term used to describe a personality characterised by a good balance of traditionally male and female attributes
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Define the scalar/androgyny model
hypethesises a continuum of gender from dominant male to dominant female characteristics
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Define alpha bias
representations of gender that see huge differences between males and females, and that often idealise these perceived differences
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Define beta bias
representations of gender that see few differences between males and femlaes
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What is the issue with the alpha bias
it exaggerates the differences between men and women thus justifying unequal treatment
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What is the issue with the beta bias
it de-emphasises differences between men and women therefore not allowing for the special needs of women
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define pathologisation
the act of wrongly considering something/someone as a problem
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Define post-structuralist
a paradigm shift from structuralist thinking to an acknowledgement of the shifting, fluid relationship between things
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Define post-modern
a complex term referring to both a period of time and a theoretical paradigm
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which 3 contemporary theoretical fields have spurred a challenge to the conceptual binarism inherent in the concept of gender QPF
Queer theory Post-structuralism Feminism
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Define queer theory
theoretical thinking that is critical of traditional notions of gender, sex and sexuality
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what 5 thing have been overly emphasized about women MMBFP
Movements Manner of dress Body size and shape Facial characteristics Presentation
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Define performativity
the notion that we create our genders by doing them
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"the understanding that the subject is fragmented, constituted through multiple axes of power and identity is important" What 7 locations of identity are included in this? SSRRACE
Sexuality Structure objectivity Race Religion Age Class Ethnicity
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Define signification/signifier/signified
the use of signs or signifiers (spoken/written words) to make meaning of the world through the representation of concepts or ideas
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Define liberation psychology
questions of the psychological processes, dynamics, capacities and practices through which people may achieve liberation and escape from oppression and exploitation
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what are the 3 central arguments of liberation psychology DLA
there are different sites and forms of oppression there are links between large scale processes there are always possibilities of revolt or resistance of the prevailing social order but the resistance is uneven and slow
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what are the 3 central concerns of liberation psychology NIQ
Nature of social formations Issues of psychological subjectivity Questions of power
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Define hegemonic orders
divison and hierarchy become taken for granted, assumed, unproblematic and seen as legitimate
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According to Moane, what are the 6 processes involved in the establishment and maintenance of domination VPESCF
Violence Political exclusion Economic exploitation Sexual exploitation Control of culture Fragmentation
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what are the 3 narratives posed by ideology that maintain domination
What is the case what is good/bad what is possible/impossible
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the use of the narrative "what is the case" creates what in an ideological society
a sense of inevitability
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the use of the narrative "what is good/bad" creates what in an ideological society
a sense of submission or yielding to the wishes/opinions of others
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the use of the narrative "what is possible/impossible" creates what in an ideological society
a sense of resignation or pessimistic view
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define interpellation
ideological process of hailing, recognising or calling a person and when they respond, they are positioned as a subject
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Define dialects
knowing the truth through overcoming the contradictions in an argument
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define subjectification
positioning of persons as subjects where they have a speaking voice and an active role to play but within the structures or concerns of a particular form of power
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new knowledge and disciplines emerged through pastoral power. These new knowledges operated through disciplinary means involving the following 6 aspects... SSDGWT
Setting of norms Standards Discourses Guidelines Warnings Techniques of surveillance
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what 2 forms of power should we be alert to manufacturing subjectivities
One where we are subject to someone else's control, shaping and dependence The Foucauldian view
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Define the Faulcadian view
power is more pervasive, subtle, is impossible to break free of, but which may be transformed in terms of new power/knowledge and new relations of subjectivities
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in the views of individual-social dualism, what are the 3 tasks of liberation psychology TIE
Throw off the shackles of society Increase the search for our authentic inner selves Extend the choices and liberties of individuals
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what is individual-social dualism
sees indivuals and society as separate, opposing entities
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what 4 things do people need for emancpation to be possible AONI
Alternatives Other social values New ideals Images of a better social order
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Modernity, in adddition to discoveries and achievements, has also produced what 4 things PPRE
Potential threats Possibilities for mass human destruction Risks of all sorts Environmental degradation
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what are 7 of the psychological consequences of modernism AAAAFID
Anxieties Addictions Alienation Anomie Fear Insecurity Dehumanisation
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What are 7 of the techniques of resistance produced by modernity SSSSPMB
Strikes Sit-ins Self-help groups Slogans Protests Marches Boycotts
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Define social constructionism
Paradigm of knowledge based on the idea that events, objects and selves dont have pre-given reality but form through the language we use to describe them
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Define meta narrative
privileged form of explanation that is treated as superior to all others in its explanatory abilities
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what is the 2 fold kernal of the social constructionist position
It has a critical agenda It has a epistemological agender
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Define anti-essentialism
an approach to subjectivity that says people are not fixed, predetermined or unchangable
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Define authoritarianism
Tendency to submit willingly yo strong authority figures above and to act pinitively towards weaker groups below
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Define ethnocentrism
Belief in the superiority of ones own ethnic group
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Define the social identity theory
Sees both individual processes and social processes as operative in the formation of social identities
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Define the social dominance theory
Claims dominance is driven by 3 main processes
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What are the 3 main processes that the social dominance theory claims that dominance is driven by AAB
Aggregated individual discrimination Aggregated institutional discrimination Behavioural asymmetry
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Define social dominance orientation
People favour hierarchically structured and non-egalitarian relationships between groups
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The social dominance orientation varies in terms of what 4 factors DSTG
Dominant group members are likely to be higher Socialisation issues (education, religion, personal) Temperamental predispositions (empathy) Gender
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What are the 3 major forms of psychological defense and identity development among oppressed people CRR
Capitulation Revitalisation Radicalisation
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What are the 4 consequential themes of cogent integration of views on the psychological consequences of oppression as proposed by Moane SEMI
Subjectivity Emotional expression Mental health issues Intragroup relations
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What are the 2 issues associated with opporession
The relational aspect of oppression Consequences for the oppressors
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What are the 3 consequences for oppressors that implicate psychological patterns NPD
Nero complex Processes of dehumanisation and objectification Denial
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Define nero complex
obsessive preoccupation with establishing legitimacy and justification for one's acts and oneself, accompanied by delusions of arrogance, entitlement and narcissism
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what are the 4 forms of denial JORD
Justification Outright denial Renaming and retelling Discrediting the source and method of report
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Define jingoism
Extreme types of nationalism characterised by both fierce patriotism and an aggressive attitude to other countries or nationalities
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What are 6 of the features of jungoism BANSDD
Bizarre reasoning Arrogance No empathy for the other Self-deceit Denial Dishonesty
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What is the big five of emancipation PPECE
Political oppression Patriarchy Economic exploitation Cultural imperialism Ecological destruction
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Define habitus
a mediating link between objective social structures and individual action

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