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what is PSI

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Psychology symbol

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Who made the Mandala

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Carl jung

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Behavior

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Actions or reactions of an individual typically in relation to the environment or other people

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Two types of behavior

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Covert & Overt behavior

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Visible behavior

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Overt behavior

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Not directly observable

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Covert behavior

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Private thoughts, emotions, feelings and, motives that other people cannot directly observe

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Mental Processes

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Goals of Psychology

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Describe, Predict, Understand, Influence.

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Father of the Psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Student of Wilhelm Wundt

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Edward Titchener

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Mind can be broken down into its constituent parts.

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Structuralism

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A method of looking inwardly at one’s own conscious experience.

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Introspection

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Best known for his studies of the sensation of heat or cold

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John Henry Alston

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Oppose the concept of the structuralism, could not be meaningfully broken down into raw elements.

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Gestalt Psychology

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He has different view from structuralists,

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Max Wertheiner

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It is to help human adapt to their new environment

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Functionalism

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Father of American Psychology

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William James

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branch of psychology dedicated studying how people think

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Cognitive Psychology

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He invented nonsense syllables

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Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Father of Psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud

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Mental processes of which we are unaware

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Unconscious Mind

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Our personality develops at the age of 5, and it is the first force of psychology

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Psychoanalysis

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Studied the adaptive value of learning from experience

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Behaviorism

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He invented classical conditioning

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Ivan Pavlov

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A neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus, eventually eliciting a similar response.

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Classical Conditioning

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He is the father of the behaviorism, and invented the little albert experiment

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John B. Watson

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Must Important aspects of our behavior are learned from other persons in society

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ALbert Bandura

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Children observed an adult model behaving aggressively towards an inflatable doll

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Bobo Doll Experiment

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Human beings determine their own fates through the conscious decision they make and third force of psychology

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Humanistic Psychology

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Unconscious mind and its influence over conscious behavior and early childhood experiences.

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Psychodynamic Perspective

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Environment stimuli and learning processes in shaping behavior

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Behavioral Perspective

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The importance of personal growth, and the capacity for self fulfillment

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Humanistic Perspective

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Internal mental processes such as perception, memory and problem solving

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Cognitive Perspective

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Influence of social and cultural factors on behavior, thinking, and development

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Sociocultural Perspective

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Biological bases of behavior and mental processes

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Biopsychological Perspective

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Focuses on the biological bases for universal mental characteristics

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Evolutionary Perspective

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FORCES IN PSYCHOLOGY

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Psychodynamic perspective, Behavioral Perspective, Humanistic Perspective, Sociocultural Perspective, Biopsychological Perspective, Evolutionary Perspective

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Sense organs operate and how we interpret incoming sensory information

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Sensation and Perception

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How we learn and remember new information and skills

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Learning and Memory

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Thinking, Perceiving, planning, imagining and etc,.

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Cognition

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Changes that take place in people during their life span, as we grow from birth through old age.

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Developmental

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Study the needs and states that activate and guide behavior

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Motivation and Emotion

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Focuses on the relativity consistent ways of behaving that characterize our individual personality

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Personality

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44
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Study the influence of other people on our behavior

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Social Psychology

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Basic areas of modern psychology

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Sensation and Perception, Learning and memory, Cognition, Developmental, Motivation and Emotion, Personality, Social Psychology

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APPLIED AREAS OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY

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clinical psychology, counseling psychology,educational psychology, school psychology, industrial and organizational psychology, health psychology.

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Administering and scoring of objective personality test, structured, and personality test.

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Psychometrician

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Philippine Psychology Act of? And republic Act No.?

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2009, 10029

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Assessment and diagnosis, Therapy and counseling

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Psychologist

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Medical and psychotherapeutic based

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Psychiatrist

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Counseling and guidance service in educational setting

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Counseling psychology

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Deals with structure and functioning of the brain and the neurons.

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Neuroscience

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Receives and sends message, tiny messenger

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Nueron

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Receives signals from other neurons, the listener

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Dendrites

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keeps the entire cell alive and functioning, main part of the neuron

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Soma

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Insulating layer forms around nerves, including brain and spinal cord, protecting the axon

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Myelin Sheath

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Long, slender projection of a neuron, messenger pathway

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Axon

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synaptic knobs, responsible for communicating with other nerve cells

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Axon Terminal

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Body’s chemical messenger

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Neurotransmitter

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Voluntary and involuntary movements

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Movement and coordination

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Nerves carry sensory information

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Sensory Perception

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Influence feelings of happiness, anxiety, and depression

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Mood and Emotions

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Involuntary functions, like heart rate and blood pressure.

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Autonomic Functions

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body’s fight or flight response

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Stress response

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Called an action potential in the receiving neuron, BRING EXCITEMENT TO YOUR BODY

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excitatory transmitter

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block or prevent the chemical message

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Inhibitory Neurotransmitter

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Key role in cognitive functions like thinking, learning and memory

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Glutamate

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Regulates brain activity

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Gamma-aminobutryic acid (inhibitory)

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Help digestion, support joints

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Glycine (inhibitory)

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Happiness & Positive Moods

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Serotonin (inhibitory/excitatory)

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Pleasure, Award and addiction

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Dopamine (excitatory/inhibitory)

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fight or flight response

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Epinephrine (adrenaline), (excitatory)

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Focus, vigilance, stress

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Norephinephrine (noradrenaline), (excitatory/inhibitory)

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Body’s natural pain reliever

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Endorphins (inhibitory)

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Muscle, learning, memory, attention.

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Acetylcholine (excitatory/inhibitory)

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TRUST, SOCIAL BONDING, LOVE HORMONE

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OXCYTOCIN (NEUROMODULATOR)

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organ in our bodies that most directly controls our thoughts, emotions and motivation

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Brain

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Lobe that control your emotions, higher executive functions.

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Frontal lobe

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sensory information like touch, temperature and pain

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Parietal Lobe

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memory storage, understanding information, learning

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Temporal Lobe

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Responsible for vision, Visual recognition

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Occipital Lobe

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Largest part of the brain, controlling emotions, learning, and reasoning

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cerebrum

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balance, posture, coordination and fine motor movement

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Cerebellum

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involuntary bodily functions, such as heart rate, breathing, sleep wake cycles.

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Brainstem

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convert physical signals from the enviroment.

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Transduction

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Organized, interpreted and conscious experienced

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Perception

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sinusuri isa isa.

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Bottom up processing

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ideas and expectations to interpret

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Top up processing

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strength of stimulus and the observers, sensitivity to that stimulus

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Psychophysics

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who invented Quantitative law of psychology, weber’s law

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Earnst Weber

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stimulus that are below the threshold of conscious perception

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Sublimal stimulus

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There is a decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated exposure.

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Habituation

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where sensory receptors become less sensitive to a constant stimulus overtime

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Sensory Adaption

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Awareness of one’s own mental activity

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Consciousness

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Awareness outside of your self

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Sensory Awareness

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Inside of yourself and direct awareness

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Inner awareness

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Ourselves & our sorrounding

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Sense of Self

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not in your awareness at the moment but able to recall them

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preconscious

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You will never aware of

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Non- conscious

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Life, sex instinct

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Eros

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Death instinct

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Thanatos

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Structures of the mind

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Id, Ego, SuperEgo

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Pleasure Principle

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ID

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Reality Principles

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Ego

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Judicial principle

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superego

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stages of development

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Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, and Genitals

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Overeating, talkative, smoking addiction and alcoholic

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Oral dependent

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Sarcasm and a biting personality

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Oral sadistic

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obsessed with orderliness and tidiness

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Anal retentive individuals

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Messy and disorganized as adult

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anal repulsive

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This stage, children discover the difference between male and female

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Phallic stage

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A boy fixated on his mother and compete with his father for maternal attention

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Oedipus Complex

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fear of losing all parts of the body

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Castraction anxiety

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Young girls feel deprived and envious that they do not have a penis

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Penis Envy

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Attraction of a girl to her father & rivalry with her mother

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Electra Complex

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Immaturity and an ability to form fulfilling relationships as an adult

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Latency

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individuals develops a strong sexual interest in the opposite sex

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Genital Stage

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Most basic type, not being able to recall a threatening situation, person or event.

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Repression

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Refuse to accept reality

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Denial

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attributes unwanted thoughts, feelings and motives to another person

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Projection

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Redirection of an impulsive onto a powerless substitute target

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Displacement

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unacceptable emotions and behaviors

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Sublimation

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choosing to avoid thinking about distressing thoughts or feelings

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supression

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expressing of the opposite of one’s true feelings to hide unacceptable desires

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Reaction formation

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remaining stuck at an earlier development stage due to unresolved conflicts

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Fixation

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Reverting to childlike behaviors when faced with stress or anxiety

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Regression

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adopting the beliefs, attitudes or values of others to reduce anxiety

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introjection

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justifying behavior or feelings with logical but inaccurate explanations.

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Rationalism

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attempting to reverse or cancel out an unacceptable impulse with a symbolic act

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undoing

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These are mental representation that organized knowledge

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Scheme

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process of taking new information into existing knowledge structure

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Assimilation

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revision of folder knowledge structure to take account of new infromation

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Accomodation

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child’s entire experience at the earliest period

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sensorimotor stage

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understanding that objects continues to exist even when they cannot be seen

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Object Performance

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kids learn through pretend play but still struggle with logic

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preoperational stage

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child’s inability to take another person’s perspective

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Egocentrism

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beliefs that inanimate object have life-like qualities and are capable of actions

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Animism

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children begin to use primitive reasoning and want to know the answer to all sorts of question

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Intiuitive thought substage

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children also become less egocentric and begin to think about how other people might think and feel

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concrete operational stage

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ability to use deductive reasoning and an understanding of abstract ideas

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Formal operational stage

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