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General Psychology Exam
General Psychology Final Exam Study
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
12/09/2009

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Personality
Definition
an individual's unique pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that persists over time and across situations
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Psychodynamic Theories
Definition
behavior is the product of internal psychological forces that often operate outside our conscious awareness. Freud
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unconscious
Definition
the ideas, thoughts, and feelings of which we are not normally aware. Freud
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psychoanalysis
Definition
therapy for the unconscious
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id
Definition
completely unconscious, present at birth, urges and desires
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pleasure principle
Definition
the basis that the id operates on
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ego
Definition
Self Reality Principle, thinking and reasoning. part conscious, part preconcsious
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libido
Definition
the energy generated by the sexual instinct
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fixation
Definition
according to freud, a partial or complete halt at some point in the individual's psychosexual development
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oral stage
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first stage in freud's theory of personality development, in which the infant's erotic feelings center on the mouth lips and tongue
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anal stage
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2nd, center on anus and on elimination
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phallic stage
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3rd, center on genitals
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Oedipus complex and Electra complex
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oedipus = sexual attatchment to mother, jealousy toward dad

electra = attachment to father, jealousy of mother
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latency period
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the period in which the child seems to have no interest in the other sex; occurs after the phallic stage
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genital stage
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final stage of normal adult sexual development, mature sexuality
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personal unconscious
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Jung's theory of personality - 1 of the 2 levels of the unconscious; it contains the individual's repressed thoughts, forgotten experiences, and undeveloped ideas
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collective unconscious
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Jung's theory of personality, the level of the unconscious that is inherited and common to all members of a species
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archetypes
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Jungs theory of personality, thought forms common to all human beings, stored in the collective unconscious
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persona
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jung, our public self, the mask we wear to represent ourselves to others
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extraverts
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jung, people who usually focus on social life and the external world instead of on their internal experience
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introverts
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jung, people who usually focus on their own thoughts and feelings
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compensation
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adler, the person's effort to overcome imagined or real personal weaknesses
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inferiority complex
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adler, the fixation on feelings of personal inferiority that results in emotional and social paralysis
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neurotic trends
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horney's term for irrational strategies for coping with emotional problems and minimizing anxiety
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humanistic personality theory
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any personality theory that asserts the fundamental goodness of people and their striving toward higher levels of functioning
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actualizing tendency
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rogers, the drive of every organism to fulfill its biological potential and become what it is inherently capable of becoming
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self-actualizing tendency
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rogers, the drive of human beings to fulfill their self concepts, or the images they have for themselves
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fully functioning person
Definition
rogers, an individual whose self concept closely resembles his or her inborn capacities or potentials
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unconditional positive regard
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rogers, the full acceptance and love of another person regardless of his or her behavior
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conditional positive regard
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rogers, acceptance and love that are dependent on another's behaving in certain ways and on fulfilling certain conditions
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personality traits
Definition
dimensions or characteristics on which people differ in distincitve ways
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factor analysis
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a statistical technique that identifies groups of related objects; it was used by Cattell to identify clusters of traits
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Big Five
Definition
five traits or basic dimensions currently considered to be of central importance in describing personality
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cognitive-social learning theories
Definition
personality theories that view behavior as the product of the interaction of cognitions, learning and past experiences, and the immediate environment
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expectancies
Definition
in bandura's view, what a person anticipates in a situation or as a result of behaving in certain ways
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performance standards
Definition
in bandura's theory, standards that people develop to rate the adequacy of their own behavior in a variety of situations
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self-efficacy
Definition
according to bandura, the expectancy that one's efforts will be successful
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locus of control
Definition
rotter, an expectancy about whether reinforcement is under internal or external control
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objective tests
Definition
personality tests that are administered in a standard way
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psychotherapy
Definition
the use of psychological techniques to treat personality and behavior disorders
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insight therapies
Definition
a variety of individual psychotherapies designed to give people a better awareness and understanding of their feelings motivations and actions in the hope that this will help them to adjust
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psychoanalysis
Definition
the theory of persanlity freud developed as well as the form of therapy he invented
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free association
Definition
a psychoanalytic technique that encourages the person to talk without inhibition about whatever thoughts or fantasies come to mind
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transference
Definition
the client's carrying over to the analyst feelings held toward childhood authority figures
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insight
Definition
awareness of previously unconscious feelings and memories and how they influence present feelings and behavior
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client-centered therapy
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rogers, nondirectional, unconditional pos regard of the client by the therapist with the goal of helping the client become fully functioning
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gestalt therapy
Definition
an insight therapy that emphasizes the wholeness of the personality and attempts to reawaken people to their emotions and sensations in the present
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short-term psychodynamic therapy
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insight therapy that is time limited and focused on trying to help clients correct the immediate problems in their lives
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behavior therapies
Definition
therapeutic approaches that are based on the belief that all behavior, normal and abnormal, is learned, and that the objective of therapy is to teach people new, more satisfying ways of behaving
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systematic desensitization
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a behavioral tech for reducing a persons fear and anx by gradually associating a new response with stimuli that have been causing the fear and anxiety
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aversive conditioning
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bt tech aimed at eliminating undesirable behavior patterns by teaching the person to associate them with pain and discomfort
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behavior contracting
Definition
form of operant conditioning therapy in which the client and therapist set behavior goals and agree on reinforc that the client will recieve on reaching those goals
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token economy
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an operant conditioning therapy in which people earn tokens for desired behaviors and exchange them for desired items or privileges
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modeling
Definition
bt, person watches others perform
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cognitive therapies
Definition
pt, perception of life situation
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stress inoculation therapy
Definition
ct, self talk to deal with stress
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rational-emotive therapy
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dct, dysfunctional beliefs are the cause, challenge the cause
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cognitive therapy
Definition
depends on identifying and changing inappropriately negative self critical patterns of thought
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group therapy
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pt, clients meet to interact and help
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family therapy
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family is partly responsible, change all fam b to benefit whole
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couple therapy
Definition
partners etc

i.e. alcohol
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eclecticism
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pt, broad treatment package over a rigid commitment to one particular form of therapy
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biological treatments
Definition
a group of approaches, like meds, electroconvulsive, and psychosurgery, used to force treatment
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antipsychotic drugs
Definition
drugs to treat things like schizophrenia
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electroconvulsive therapy ect
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bio therapy, bzzt
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pscyhosurgery
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snip
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deinstitutionalization
Definition
halfway houses, etc
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primary prevention
Definition
fix the environment
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secondary prevention
Definition
groups at high risk, before it happens
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tertiary prevention
Definition
help mental hospital releasees adapt to community
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