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Ascending Reticular Activity System
Differences in levels of activity between intro and extraversion |
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| Incentive Approach System |
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Pursuit of rewards
Positive emotion while anticipating positive outcome
Frustration/anger when desired reward is thwarted
Prefrontal cortex
Dopaminergic System |
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| Description of a trait early in life |
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| Behavioral Avoidance System |
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Detection and avoidance of negative outcomes
Limbic System
GABA, Norepinephrine, Serotonin |
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Impulsive Unsocialized Sensation Seeking
vs.
Effortful Control |
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Control of impulses
Prefrontal Cortex
Serotonergic System |
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Necessary prenataly for development of male physical characteristics
Correlates with: Aggression potential; Antisocial behavior; Social dominance; Impulsivity
Level vary based on situation |
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Attachment-bond related
Released during orgasm, childbirth, and breastfeeding
Intensifies social feelings |
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Stress response
Fear, Anxiety, Depression (not a cause, but effect of)
Cardiovascular risk, and atrophy of brain tissue |
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Impulsive sensation seeking
Less of a noramal response to danger |
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Father of Psychodyanamic Perspective
Metaphor and symbolization
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| All thoughts/feelings/behavior have a reason |
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| Study of resemblences between children and adoptive and biological parents |
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| Testing specific genes because of evidence linking them to biological proceses and theory-links to personality |
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| Tendency to be focused, restrained, and planful |
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| Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) |
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| Study of all genes at once |
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| Gene x Environment Interaction |
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| Environment produces different outcomes dependant upon genes |
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| Helping others with the expectation that help will be returned |
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| Part of brain that regulates responses to punishment |
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| Neuraltransmitter important to approach regulation |
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| Low levels associated with anxiety disorders |
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Regulates neuraltransmitters
Involved with constraint over impulses |
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| Important to anxiety response |
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Stage 2 of Freud's Psychosexual Development
Centered around toilet training
Preschool age |
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| Feeling warning the ego that something bad is about to happen |
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| Ego-protective strategy hide threats and reduce anxiety |
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Refusal to believe a real condition exists
Defense mechanism |
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Shifting of impulse form original target to a different one
Defense Mechanism |
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| Rational and pragmatic part of mind |
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| Part of superego that represents perfection and rewards good behavior |
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| Ability of ego to function through demands of Id and Superego |
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| Condition of being partially stuck in a stage of psychosexual development |
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Fifth stage of Psychosexual Development
Mature and mutual sexual involvement with others
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| Primitive part of personality |
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Thinking about something critically without emotion
Defense Mechanism |
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Fourth stage of psychosexual development
Temporary calm |
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| Underlying content of dreams |
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First stage of psychosexual development
Main conflict is weaning
Infancy |
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Third stage of psychosexual development
Main crisis is sexual desire of opposite sex parent
Post-preschool age |
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| Region of mind that corresponds to ordinary memory |
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Ascribing a threatening urge or quality of yourself to someone else
Defense Mechanism |
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| Assessment in which you project from the unconscious onto ambiguous stimuli |
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Finding plausible, but incorrect explanation for unacceptable action or event
Defense Mechanism |
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| Idea that actions must take into account the contraints of the real world |
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| Process of preventing an idea or impulse from becoming conscious |
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| Attempt to avoid becoming conscious fo threatening material in therapy |
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| Projective test that uses inkblots as ambiguous stimuli |
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Alteration of an id impulse into a socially acceptable act
Defense Mechanism |
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| Part of mind seeking moral perfection |
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| Freud's model of the three regions of the mind: Id, Ego, Superego |
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Displacement onto something of feelings that are tied to something else
Defense Mechanism |
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| Emotional connection to someone else |
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| Extent to which a person controls impulses |
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| Overal sense of self that emerges from interactions with social reality |
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| Feeling that you are deficient in some way |
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| Giving fo positive attention an supportiveness to somone |
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| Sense of grandiose self-importance and entitlement |
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| Individual's symbolized relations to other people |
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| Turnign point in development when interpersonal issue is being dealt with and growth potential and vulnerability are high |
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| Relationships create structure of self |
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| Mental representation of another person who functions to satisfy your needs |
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| Process of acquiring distinct identity, seperate from fusion with mother |
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| Viewing of others through selfobject representations originally developed for parents |
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Personality development is distinguishing onself from others
Symbiosis vs. Separation-Individuation |
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Relation to social world
Inferiority complex |
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Instincts beyond sex
Spirtuality
Collective unconscious |
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Challenged gender differences
Anxiety and security and social needs |
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Expanded/modified her father's theories
Developed Defense Mechanisms |
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Originated Object Relations
Sexual and aggressive drives
Integration of part-objects into whole-objects |
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Trauma's effect on integration
Poor integration as an explanation of disorders |
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False self - Learn to please others prematurally and not have an independent self
Tansitional objects (blankets, teddy bears, etc.) |
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| Attachment figure is a secure base |
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| Strange Situation experiment |
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| Secure with parent, who will be there as a scure base |
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| Avoids parent and acts coldly upon return |
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| Upset by parent leaving, but not comforted by return |
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| Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment |
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Contradicting responses
Combination of other insecure attachments |
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Conflicts and conscience determined by social context
Development continues past childhood |
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First stage
Basic trust and hope |
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Second stage
Sense of control over self and environment |
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Third stage
Power, Purpose, Morality |
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Fourth stage
Competence in social desirable activities |
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| Identity v. Role Confusion |
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Fifth stage
Reintegration of pas with present and future goals and values |
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Sixth stage
Commitment, sharing, closeness, and love |
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| Generativity v. Self-absorption/Stagnation |
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Sevent stage
Contributing to the world and future generations |
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Eighth stage
Perspective, Satisfaction with past life, Wisdom |
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