Theories 1 Flashcards
Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Freud
- created individual psychology and analytic psychology
Adler
- father of individual psychology
Jung
- founded analytic psychology
Catharsis
- talking cure
Joseph Breuer
- taught Freud the value of talking cure
Eric Berne
- Transactional analysis
- three ego states: child, adult, and parent
topography
- mapping
- Freudians mapped the brain
Parent ego
- superego
Oedipus complex
- led to the development of the superego
- accomplished by identification with the aggressor, the parent of the same sex.
ego
- executive administrator of the personality and the reality principle
- mediator
Id
- instincts
- pleasure principle
the superego
- the conscience
- composed of values, morals, ideals, and society
- perfection
free association
- instructing the client to say whatever comes to mind
Joseph Wolpe
- systematic desensitization
Systematic Desensitization
- type of behavior therapy
- based on Pavlov’s classical conditioning
Little Albert
- It’s not associated with the psychodynamic movement
John B. Watson
- pioneer of American behaviorism
- ## little Albert
Psychodynamic
- Utilizes fewer sessions
- does not use the couch
- it’s performed face to face
Psychoanalysis
- lengthy, 3 to 5 sessions per week for several years
catharsis and/or abreactions
- talking about difficulties in order to purge emotions and feelings is a curative process.
Rogerians
- do not emphasize diagnosis or giving advice
Unconscious
Preconscious
Conscious
- these 3 referred as topographical theory
SUDS
- used by Wolpe
Conscious mind
- It’s aware of the immediate environment.
Preconscious mind
- it’s capable of bringing ideas, images, and thoughts into awareness with minimal difficulty
Unconscious mind
- it’s composed of material which is normally unkown or hidden from the client
- ego defence mechanism
Repression
- Freudians belive that this is the most important of ego defence mechanism
Reaction formation
- when a person can’t accept a given impulse and this behaves in the opposite manner
- unconcious behavior
Sublimation
- presents when a person acts out an unconscious impulse in a socially acceptable way
Denial
= repression
- except that it is a conscious act
Displacement
- occurs when an impulse is unleashed at a safe target
Lemon sweet rationalization
- overrating the value of something
Sour grapes rationalization
- underrates a situation
Projection
- attributes unacceptable qualities of his or her own behavior to others
Compensation
- It’s evident when an individual attempts to develop or overdevelop a positive trait to make up for a limitation
Identification
- when a person identifies with a cause or a successful person with the unconscious hope that he or she will be perceived as successful
Introjection
- causes a person to accept an aggressor’s values
Purpose of Interpretation
- make the clients aware of their unconscious processes
Insight
- “aha, now I understand” phenomenon
Mandalas
- Jung used drawings balanced around a center point to analyze himself, his clients, and dreams
Adler
- individual
- superiority
- inferiority
- sibling interaction
- social connectedness
- family constellation
Neo-Freudians
- emphasize on social factors
- Adler, Horney, Erikson, Sullivan, Fromm
Jung
- introversion and extroversion
- Sensing vs. Intuition
- Thinking vs feeling
- judging vs perceiving
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Rudolph Dreikurs
- was the first to discuss the use of group therapy in private practices
Henry Murray
- introduced the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
- TAT series of pictures shown to the client and then asked to tell a story
Social connectedness
- Adler believed that we need one another
Victor Frankl
- father of logo therapy
Archetypes
- Jung spoke of a collective unconscious common to all men and women
Symptom substitution
- analytical trained
Behaviorist
- strive for symptom reduction and do not believe in the concept of symptom substitution
Frederick Thorne
- associated with ECLECTIC
Association
- which asserts that ideas are held together by association
- John locke, Hume, Jame, Hartley
- written by Aristotle
Edward Thorndike
- Law of effect
- trial and error learning
- Skinner reinforcement theory was based on this work
Conditioned
- learned
Unconditioned
- unlearned
Instrumental
- Skinner
Respondent behavior
- reflexes
- Pavlov’s salivation
Negative reinforcement
- it’s not the same as punishment
Punishment
- decreases the probability that a behavior will occur
.5 or 1/2 of a second
- the most effective time interval between the CS and UCS
Delayed condition
- When the CS is delayed
Trace condition
- When the UCS is delayed
Stimulus generalization or second-order conditioning
- occurs when a stimulus similar to the CS (the bell) produces the same reaction.