Test one Flashcards
Incomprehensibility
The inability of the general public to understand the motivation behind behavior, regardless of cultural norm.
Cultural relativity
Determination of normal and abnormal behavior as defined by one’s cultural or societal norms.
Describe Maslow’s
1-Physiological 2-Safety3-love/belonging 4-esteem 5-self actualization
Enculturation
Gradual acquistinon of cultural norms
Acculturalization
assimilation to a different culture while maintaining cultural uniqueness
Assimilation
Process in which a minority culture begins to resemble a society’s major group
What is General adaptation syndrome and what are the stages?
Flight or fight
Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion
Compensation
Covering up a real or perceived weakness by emphasizing a trait one considers desirable
Rationalization and example
Attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasoning to justify unacceptable feelings or behavior
Turned down by a date- They were not interested anyway
Denial
example
I don’t have a drinking problem
Reaction formation
Preventing undesirable thoughts or behaviors by exaggerating opposite thoughts or behaviors
a father hating being a dad but dotting on his son
Displacement ex
Stress and jaden
Identification
AN attempt to increase self worth by acquiring certain attributes as an individual that one admires
Student failing a test and dressing like SF
repression vs suppression
R is involuntary
intellectualization
an attempt to avoid emotions by using logic
Sublimation ex
re channeling of drives or impulses that are socially unacceptable into activities that are constructive
Someone wanting to fight but playing sports instead
Introjection
integrating the beliefs and values of another individual into ones own ego structure.
boys don’t cry
Isolation
Separating thought or memory from the feeling, tone, or emotion associated with it
rape example
undoing
Negating or cancelling out an event
Thinking badly of someone and then being super kind to them
projection
Attributing feelings or impulses unacceptable
to one to another person
ryan
Five grief stages
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, depression, acceptance
Definition of crisis
A sudden event in one’s life that disturbs homeostasis during which the usual coping mechanisms cannot resolve the problem
Phases of a crisis
1-exposure to stress
2-failure of coping
3-New ideas or problem solving
4 is prior phase is not successful panic or despair can result
Dispositional crisis
Come from lack of info
Who to ask
what to do
what job to take