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| Psychoanalysis | Frueds idea which looks at the unconscious conflicts that are responsilbe for repression. The goal is to confront the conflicts |
| Free Association | Patients come up with whatever comes to mind no matter what it is, they have to say it out loud |
| Dream Interpretation | Psychoanalytic, look at dreams and look at the manifest content and the latent content to find clues about unconscious conflicts |
| Resistance | Inability or unwillingness to reveal things, what the therapist is looking for |
| Transference | The taking of feelings toward one person and placing those feelings onto another |
| Manifest content | Surface of a dream, storyline |
| Latent Content | The underlying meaning, the true message |
| Behavioral Therapy | Focuses on observable behavior, tools used are aversive conditioning, systematic desensitization, modeling and token economy |
| Aversive Conditioning | This is the conditioning by punishing a response |
| Systematic Desensitization | Gradual process for slowly acclimating a person to change their response to a behavior |
| Modeling | Changing behavior by showing the person the correct behavior |
| Token Economy | The use of rewards in order to gain the desired behavior |
| Cognitive therapy | Idea that the goal is to change peoples ideas about themselves and the world |
| Rational Emotive | Form of therapy to change a persons belief system so it is more realistic, use love and approval |
| Biomedical Therapy | The use of drugs, electric shock or surgery to treat disorders |
| Antipsychotic Drugs | Drugs that help take care of psychotic symptoms |
| Antidepressant Drugs | Drugs that help a persons mood so they are not depressed |
| Antianxiety drugs | Drugs that reduce anxiety in a person |
| Lithium | Mineral salt that is used in bipolar cases |
| Fluoxetine | Also known as prozac, used as an antidepressant, has few side effects |
| Client Centered Therapy | Therapy where the goal is for a person to reach their own potential of self actualization |
| Humanistic Therapy | Uses idea that people control their behavior and can solve their own problems |
| Gestalt therapy | Idea to integrate the persons thought, feelings, and behaviors into a whole |
| Group therapy | Where people talk about their problems in a group, usually eight to twelve people |
| ID | Unorganized inborn part of personality to reduce tension from primitive drives |
| Ego | Personality part wich works between the ID and the outside world |
| Superego | Freud's idea that a personality structure develops to decide right, and wrong on society which is learned from teachers ,parents or other authority figures |
| Conscious | Knowing, being aware of ones own thoughts and feelings |
| Conscience | Prevents us from doing things that are morally wrong |
| Ego Ideal | MOtivates us to do things that are morally proper |
| Unconscious | Not conscious, being aware of ones own feelings or thoughts |
| Pleasure principle | Goal is to reduce tension and maximize satisfaction |
| Reality principle | instinctual energy that is restrained to keep someone safe and help them in society |
| Collective Unconsciousness | Set of influences inherited from our ancestors, human race and animals |
| Repression | Unacceptable or bad experiences that are pushed back into the memory |
| Sublimation | Diversion of unwanted impulses that are changed into something socially approved |
| Defense Mechanisms | Unconscious strategies that are used to reduce anxiety by covering up the source |
| MMPI-2 | Test to identify people with psychological disorders and to predict other behaviors |
| Reciprocal determinism | How people interact with the environment, behavior and individuals which determine how people behave |
| Unconditional Positive Regard | Attitude or acceptance and respect by observer no matter what a person says or does |
| Self Actualization | State of self fulfillment where people see their full potential |
| Big 5 Personality | Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Openness to experience |
| Projective test | Test where a person is shown something ambiguous and than has to discribe it |
| Rorshach Test | Show symmetrical stimuli then have to figure out what is represents |
| Thematic Apperception | series of pictures which a person must write a story about |
| Psychoanalytic Theory | Frued- unconscious forces act to determine personality |
| Trait theory | Identify basic traits which describe personality |
| Cognitive Social Theory | Emphasizes influence of thoughts, feelings, expectations, and values to determine personality |
| Biological theory | Personality that is inherited |
| Humanistic theory | peoples basic goodness and how they grow to reach higher levels of functioning |
| Cross Sectional Research | Type of research where people who are different ages are compared |
| Cohort Effect | People who are in certain groups because of some similarity |
| Maturation | Changes that occur due to biologically determined patterns |
| Longitudal Design | A method of research which looks at behaviors in relation to age |
| Cross Sequential Research | Method of research that combines longitudal design and cross sectional research |
| Chromosomes | Rod shaped objects which have the information for basic heredity |
| Fallopian Tube | Part of the female organs, long tubes connecting the ovaries to the uterus |
| Germinal Period | First two weeks after fertilization |
| Zygote | New cell formed after fertilization |
| Embryo | A zygote that has developed and now has a heart, brain and other organs |
| Fetus | Developing child from eight weeks after fertilization until birth |
| Reflexes it birth | Rooting, sucking, gag, startle, Babinski |
| Authoritarian parenting | Rigid, does not allow for questions regarding anything the parent says |
| Permissive | Give children anything, laid back, offer little help |
| Authoritative | Firm, set limits, reason with the children, explain why something is happening |
| Drive Reduction Theory | This says that when a person doesnt have a natural need or requirement then a drive to fer that need happens |
| Incentive theory | this is a theory which says that motivation is effected by external sources |
| Homeostasis | This is the process where the body tries to keep everything balanced |
| Arousal Approaches | This is the idea that people keep a certain level of activity by increasing or reducing whatever is necessary |
| Extrinsic Motivation | This is a type of motivation where people do something because they will receive an award for doing it |
| Intrinsic motivation | This is where a person will do something for themselves, not because they will receive some sort of award |
| Anorexia Nervosa | Eating disorder where a person will refuse to eat and do not see their physical features are changing due to lack of food |
| Bulimia Nervosa | This is a eating disorder where a person will eat a lot then get rid of it |
| Michael Storm's Model | Has two levels, Homosexual, Heterosexual, a person can have varying degrees of either, looks at desire |
| Klien SOG | There are seven parts, Past, present, future, emotion, social, appeal and desire, |
| Kinsey Scale | Idea looks at behavior, from 0 to 6, 0 being hetero, 6 being homo |
| Psychophysiological Disorders | Medical problems which are caused by problems physiological, emotional and physical |
| General adaptation syndrome | Theory which says a person will respond to stress through , alarm, mobilization and resistance and exhaustion |
| Cataclysmic event | really bad stressors which happen suddenly to lots of people |
| Personal stressor | stresses from major life events, have immediate bad consequences then later go away |
| Background Stressors | Everyday problems that cause minor problems but are not long term |
| Uplifts | littile things that are good that happen and make you feel better |
| Learned helplessness | state where people think that something unpleasant cannot be controlled and so they quit trying to make things better even if there is something they can do |
