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110
Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/11/2012

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Insight Therapies
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A general term referring to psychotherapy that involves dialogue between client and therapist for the purposes of gaining awareness and understanding of psychological problems and conflicts.
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Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud
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An insight therapy developed by Sigmund Freud that became the precursor to modern psychodynamic therapies
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Unconscious motives
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Fundamental urges such as sexuality, appetites, and aggression are constantly influencing how we think and behave, even when were not aware of them.
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Free association
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Instructs the patient to reveal any thoughts that arise, no matter how odd or meaningless they may seem.
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Dream Analysis
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A method of understanding unconscious thought by interpreting the manifest content (what happens in a dream) to get a sense of the latent content (the unconscious elements that motivated the dream).
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Resistance
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A tendency to avoid directly answering crucial questions posted by the therapist
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Transference
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A psychoanalytic process that involves patients directing the emotional experiences that they are reliving toward the therapist.
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Humanistic Therapies
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Empowered individuals with the ability to overcome their problems. Also, rather than interpreting the hidden meanings of dreams and free associations, the humanistic therapist's tole is to listen and understand.
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Client-Centered therapy: Carl Rogers
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Focuses on individuals' abilities to solve their own problems and reach their full potential with the encouragement of the therapist.
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Empathy
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Unconditional Positive Regard
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A relationship develops between the therapist and client critical to client-centered therapy involving genuine, empathetic, and nonjudgmental attention.
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Real Vs. Ideal Self
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Behavioral Therapies
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Addresses problem behaviors and thoughts, and the environmental factors that trigger them, as directly as possible.
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Exposure Treatments
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A process in which exposure to the feared situation is completed gradually and under controlled conditions.
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Systematic Desensitization
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A technique in which gradual exposure to a feared stimulus or situation is blended with relaxation training.
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Flooding and Implosive therapy
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The client goes straight to the most challenging part of the hierarchy, exposing himself to the scenario that causes the most anxiety and panic attempting to discover no negative consequences for facing that fear.
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies
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The form of therapy that consists of procedures such as exposure, cognitive restructuring, and stress inoculation training.
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Group and Family Therapies
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It is less costly. Often listening to others experience and sharing ones own can lead to therapeutic growth. Helps with social issues and family issues.
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Systems Approach
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An orientation toward family therapy that involves identifying and understanding what each individual family member contributes to the entire family dynamic.
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Bio-medical Therapies
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Drugs, Surgery, Electroconvulsive shocks
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Drugs, Surgery, Electroconvulsive shocks
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Drugs-medications designed to alter psychological functioning.
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Behavior and Health
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The idea that ones health affects one's behavior and the positive and negative consequences of ones behavior on one's health.
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Smoking, Obesity, Safety belts
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Behaviors that effect ones health.
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Stress vs. Distress
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A Psychological and physiological reaction that occurs when percieved demands exceed existing resources to meet those demands. The difference between them is the perception of control.
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Cognitive Appraisal Theory
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The act of assessing and evaluating the potential threat and demands of an event, and these appraisals occur in two steps. Primary and Secondary appraisals.
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General Adaptation Syndrome
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Stress and Personality
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The Type A Personality
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Optimism
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Coping Strategies
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Positive Psychology
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(Martin Seligman)
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Negativity and Pessimism
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Perceived Control
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Learned Helplessness
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Norms, Roles, and Conformity
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Group Influence and Athourity
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Social Loafing vs. Facilitation
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Group Think
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Obedience (Stanley Milgram)
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Attitude and Action
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Group Polarization
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Cognitive Dissonance
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Central vs. Peripheral Routes
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System 1 vs. System 2
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First Impressions
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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Attributions
(Interval vs. External)
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Fundamental attributions error
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Self-serving Bias
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Stereotypes, Prejudice, Discrimination
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Empathy, Altruism, Helping
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Empathy - emotional concern one individual has for another's well-being
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The Bystander Effect
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Diffusion of responsibility
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Job Analysis and Selection
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Interviewing: the structured interview
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Dispositional vs. Situational Factors
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The big 5: OCEAN
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Trait vs. State
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Performance Appraisals
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360-degree feedback
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Bias: halo and contrast effects
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Affect and Atritude at Work
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Job Satisfaction vs. Burnout
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Fulfillment and Intrinsic Reinforcement
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Hostility and Agression
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Sexual Harassment
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Leadership
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Self-monitoring
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Discretionary Behavior
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Transformational vs. Transctional Leadership
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Character
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Prudence
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Fortitude
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Temperance
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Justice
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Courage
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Humility
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Integrety
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Compassion
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Flexibility
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Positive vs. Negative Gossip
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Teamwork
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Actively Caring for People
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Vision vs Goals
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ABC Model
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Maslow's Revised Hierarchy
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Self-Trancendence
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Latané and Darley Model
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1. Is something wrong?
2. Am I needed?
3. Should I intervene?
4. What should i do?
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Cultivating an AC4P Culture
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Direct Approach: from cards to wristbands
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Indirect Approach: Person-States
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Self-esteem vs. self-efficacy
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SMARTS Goals
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Achieve vs. Avoid
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Psychological Testing and Assessment
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Positive Reinforcement
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Psychological Therapies
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Applied Behavior Analysis
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Parenting
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Psychological Stress
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I/O Psychology
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Human Factors
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Behavior-Based Safety
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Criminal Justice
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Eye-witness testimony
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Stanford Prison Experiment
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Education
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Cooperation Learning
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Positive Psychology
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Behavioral Economics
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