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Test 3 (Ch. 7) Flashcards

1
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What is The “I” in human relations psychology?

A

the individual

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2
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What is Object Relations psychology based on?

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the intrapsychic experience of early relationships with others

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3
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type of psychology that is a perspective for understanding personality developed by scholars working out of the Stone Center at Wellesley College

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Relational/Cultural

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4
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She explored the processes of separation and individuals by which the child emergeslfrom a symbiotic, or intimate, fusion with the mother and assumes individual characteristics

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Margaret Mahler

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5
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she initiated shift in emphasis away from studying innate biological instincts and toward relations between people

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Melanie Klein

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6
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characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance and self-involvment, behaviors that hide a fragile sense of self worth

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Narcissistic Personality

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7
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Otto Kernberg focused on what disorder?

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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8
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a serious mental illness characterized by instability and displaying fiver or more specific clinical features

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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9
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she says that developing strong relationships is important in developing self; women are more tied to interpersonal relationships than men and the pscyhe develops differently in men and women

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Nancy Chadrow

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10
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the basic origins of growth and development

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connectedness

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11
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a way of relating and sharing in which all participants are fully participating

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mutuality

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12
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the break that is experienced when a person can’t engage in mutually empathetic and empowering relationships

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disconnection

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13
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within the pscyhe of individual self

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intrapsychic

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14
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between psyches or persons

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interpsychic

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15
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group of women who have developed a new collaborative theory of human development within relationships

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Stone Center Group

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16
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Prior to separation-individuation, there are two “forerunner phases” ____________ and normal symbiosis, in which the infant’s ego develops from a state of absolutely primary narcissism to a recognition of an external world. At this time there is no real separation of self from mother, but developments may occur that promote or impede the subsequent individuation process

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normal autism

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17
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Heinz Kohut said that children need to be ________—to have their talk and their accomplishments ackowledged, accepted, and praised

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mirrored

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18
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The _________ of the object image into opposites in the internal world of fantasy permits children to treat the internalized object as clearly good or bad while continuing to trust and love the actual external person who is an intricate combination of both.

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splitting

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19
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in object relations therapy, separating an object image into opposites

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splitting

20
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Object relations theorists emphasize:

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the intrapsychic experience of relationships with others.

21
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Relational-cultural theorist emphasize:

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the interpsychic experience of relationships, or the connections and disconnections that occur between people in relationships

22
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In object relations theory,an ______ is the aim of relational needs in human development

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object

23
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Human Relations

A
  • Women are raised differently so they think differently
  • Personality is developed by reacting to relationships
  • Challenges “I” of other personality theories
  • Very external
  • Can’t have a concept of self without a concept of others
  • Broken into 2 groups: Object Relations and Relational/Cultural
24
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says that your personality is a connection or disconnection; you either connect with someone or not; personality is based on the connections or disconnections you have in life

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Relational/Cultural theory

25
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Which psychologist put play into psychoanalysis with kids?

A

Melanie Klein

26
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Believed you learn about yourself through relationships with others especially your mom and splitting is deciding people into good and bad (we tend to make people all good or all bad)

A

Melanie Klein

27
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Margaret Mahler said that separation begins at ____ months

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4

28
Q

Individuation leads to establishment of self-concept at age ____

A

3

29
Q

Father of Narcisstic Personality Disorder and said it was developed between 4 months and 3 years of age

A

Henry Kohut

30
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Borderline Personality Disorder has 5 characteristics:

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turbulent relationships
fear of abandonment
lack of control of emotions
self-mutilation
suicidal tendencies
31
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Borderline Personality Disorder is caused by ______. Because of early relationships with parents, child is aggressive, envy driven and hates.

A

splitting

32
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What is the biggest personality problem?

A

disconnections

33
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What are the 3 characteristics of a disconnected family?

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secrecy, parental inaccessibility, and parentification (children grow up too soon)

34
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What is the purpose of Human Relations therapy?

A

creating new, mutual, empathetic connections

35
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Relational/Cultural theory

A
  • challenges the “I” theories
  • trying to promote cooperation, giving and nurturing as equal to autonomy, logic and power
  • for healthy development, affiliations and relationships are essential
  • ability to make and keep relationships is a women’s source of their sense of self-worth
36
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In order for people to connect you must have:

A

empathy and mutuality

37
Q

Human beings seek ________ (doesn’t have to be with humans)

A

connections

38
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_______ _______ theorists look at how people develop intraspychic patterns of living out of their early relationships with significant others, particularly their mothers.

A

Object relations

39
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Who introduced the concept of splitting and emphasized the interaction of unconscious fantasies and real experiences in the development of children’s object relations?

A

Melanie Klein

40
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Who explored the processes of separation-individuation?

A

Margaret Mahler

41
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the child emerges from a symbiotic fusion with the mother and develops individual characteristics

A

separation-individuation

42
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Who constructed a sequence of stages through which the ego passes in the process of becoming and individual?

A

Margaret Mahler

43
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Who identified the process of cyclically?

A

Nancy Chodorow

44
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produces daughters with the desire and capacity to mother but sons whose nurturing abilities are limited and repressed

A

cyclically

45
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___________ prevents people from engaging in mutually empathic relationships.

A

Disconnections

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