Week 5 Flashcards
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Some Freud Ideas
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- Disagreed with the perception of the day that the brain is hardwired and localised
- Believed brain was dynamic and could reorganised itself.
- First to promote brain plasticity
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Hebb’s Law & Freud
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- Neurons that fire together, wire together
- Freud did propose this theory 60 years before though - Law of Association
- Freud said: that patients came up with interesting connections if he did not interfere
- These were thoughts and feelings usually pushed down
3
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Neuro Concepts and Psychodynamic Approach
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- Early Relationships & Brain Development - Attachment Theory
- Consciousness - Instinctual Drives
- Memory Systems - Repressed Memories
4
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Freudian Concepts
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ID, Ego & Superego
Conscious, Preconscious & Unconscious
5
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Amygdala & Hippocampus Oppisite Processing
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6
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Metacognition
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- We are only species that can think about our thinking
- We can pause to reflect at anytime during information processing to evaluate thoughts
- We can ask “why” about thinking and doing
7
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Unconscious and Threat Systems
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- Unconscious is activated when threat is experienced
- Perceived through our 5 senses
- Could be a gut instinct as well
- When amygdala triggers fight/flight or freeze actions are largely involuntary
8
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Memories & Experience
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- Memories are not the recollection of an experience
- Rather recollection of the last time you recalled the experience
9
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Memory Plasticity
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- Freud moved away from the idea that memories are permanent
- Memories can be changed by subsequent events
- Memories can be retranscribed
- To change memories they have to be in our conscious
10
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Transference & Freud
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- Social Memory and unconscious
- Can be made conscious within the therapy process
- When an individual redirects emotions from one person to another
- Freud said it was a good thing as it can bring emotions to consciousness
11
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Transference
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- Freud found patients would view him as the client
- Relived experiences rather than remembered them
- Transference of early trauma could be altered if attention was drawn to the current situation
- Neural networks and associated memories could be retranscribed
12
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Types of Memory
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- Procedural Memory
- Fear Memory
- Episodic Memory
- Semantic Memory
- Explicit Memory
- Implicit Memory
13
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Procedural Memory
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How to do things manually
Key for taking actions without conscious thought like driving or typing
14
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Fear Memory
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Can be conscious or Unconscious
15
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Episodic Memory
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Also called Autobiographical Memory
Based on narratives with a beginning, middle and end
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Semantic Memory
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- Alsco called Declarative Memory
- Stand alone facts
- Largely disconnected from emotion
17
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Explicit Memory
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Requires conscious rehearsal
18
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Implicit Memory
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- Involves thoughts and feelings and events
- Unconsciously encoded to memory
19
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State Dependent Memory
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- Depression creates a negative bias for remembering
- Selective scanning of environment that focuses on the negative
- Implicit dysfunctional memories can cause us to recreate negative patterns in behaviour
- This can even occur if the patterns are unsuccessful
- Our perception of the world is based on past experience
20
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Trauma and Memory
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- People who experience trauma in first three years can have little explicit memory of the trauma
- BUT Implicit memories can be triggered when similar events occur
- Procedural memories of emotive experience can get repeated in transference or in life
21
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Uncovering Trauma Memories
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- Therapist can help people to bring unconscious memory into explicit conscious context
- This way they are retranscribed into conscious explicit memory
39
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Early and Late Memory
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- This is implicit memory and explicit memory
- Called this because this is the order and timing in which they develop
- Implicit memory begins before birth and combine with body function after birth
