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What is Gender Identity Disorder

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Strong and present cross gender Identification, persistent discomfort with his or her sex

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What is Gender Dysphoria

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Distress over one’s express gender and assigned gender

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Why do people have problems

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It depends on your model

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What are perspectives used to express events

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Models or Paradigmes

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What do models influence

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What investigators observe, the questions they ask, the information they seek, and how to interpret the information

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What are the five ways of understanding models of abnormality

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They are numerous, diverse, controversial, subjective, and “everything”

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Historically what did clinical scientists emphasize

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A single model of abnormality

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Today what do scientists emphasize

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several models

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what is the oldest and most famous psychological model

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Psychodynamic Model

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Who is the father of Psychodynamic theory and Psychoanalytic therapy

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Freud (Freudian Model)

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What is the behavior determined by underlying dynamic forces of which he or she is not consciously aware

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Psychic Determinism

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Who introduced Freud to hysteria

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Jaen Charcot

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What is hysteria

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Physical issues without Physical cause

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What is talk therapy

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Hypnoses, free association, and dream interpretation

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What signified the birthday of psychoanalysis

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Freud’s book “Interpretation of Dreams”

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How did Freud explain normal and abnormal functioning

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The id, the ego, and superego

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What is id

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sex drive, instinctual needs, guided by the pleasure principle

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What is ego

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Seeks to gratify id impulses, uses defense mechanisms to protect us from anxiety, guided by reality principle

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What is the super ego

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Our conscience guided by the morality principle

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What is each stage of development of the id, ego, and superego

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psycho sexual develop mental stages

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what is the psycho sexual stage from 0-18 months

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Oral

22
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What is the psycho sexual stage from 18 months-3 years

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Anal

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What is the psycho sexual stage from 3-5 years of age

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Boys: Oedipus, Girls: Electra complex

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What is the psycho sexual stage of 5-12 years

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Latency

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What is the psycho sexual stage of 12-adulthood

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Gentile

26
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According to Freud why do you have problems

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Fixations and Exaggerated use of defense mechanisms

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According to Freud what is a fixation

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Stuck Libido

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What are the three types of fixations and examples

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Oral personality: alcoholic, Anal personality: OCD, Phallic: homosexual male

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What are the strengths of the psychodynamic model

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Abnormal functioning rooted in same process as normal functioning, selfish view of man, traces of physical systems to non physical causes

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What are the weaknesses of the psychodynamic model

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Subjective, Perverted view of sex, Pre occupied with the past, pre occupied with abnormal, anti-christian

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What is the behavioral model

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Allegedly scientific response to the subjectivity of the psychodynamic model

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What is environmental determinism

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Behavior determined by the environment

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How do behaviorist explain abnormal functioning

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“Conditioning” produces both abnormal and normal behavior

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What is classical conditioning

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Learning to associate two events occurring close together in time

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Who is the father of classical conditioning

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Pavlov

36
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Who is the father of American behaviorism

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John B. Watson

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Who was the father of operant conditioning

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B.F. Skinner

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What is operant conditioning

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Behavior based reward on consequences

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What are the strengths of the behavioral model

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recognizing the importance of the environment, attempts to be scientific, and abdicable to learning

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What are the weaknesses of the behavioral model

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Denies sinful nature, evolutionary, reductionistic, ignores heredity, denies absolutes, no accountability, faces ultimate logical dilemma

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What model views that people are basically good, free to choose, responsible for their choices, have a tendency towards growth

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The Humanistic existential model

42
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What model believes that man is basically good, motivated to meet his needs

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Humanistic model

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How do humanists explain abnormal functioning

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Failing to have their needs met

44
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Who popularized the humanistic model

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Carl Rogers

45
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What theory believes that psychological disfunction is caused by self deception

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Jestalt Theory Existential Psychology

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What are the strengths of the humanistic model

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moves away from “illness” and focuses on the normal rather than the abnormal

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What are the weaknesses of the humanistic model

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Assumes people are good, difficult to research, more of a religious view

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What model states that abnormal behavior is the result of social and cultural forces

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Sociocultural model

49
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What perspective says abnormal behavior is the result of social forces

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Multicultural perspective

50
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What model is based on abnormal functioning rooted in thinking

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Cognitive Model

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