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| Facial muscles move 1/20 of a second before you register happiness. Proof of the unconscious because we are processing information without awareness. |
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| Planted either a neutral or disturbing story in the minds of the participants. Disturbing story subjects twitched afterwards, were tense, and hesitated before saying the disturbing word. |
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| Defense mechanisms are normal and we all use them to maintain our self-esteems |
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| Said there were 4 levels of defense mechanisms. As we get older, we use more adaptive, higher level mechanisms. People that use level 3 and 4 have more success and better lives. |
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| Showed schizophrenic patients something disturbing at a rapid rate (~4 ms) and there was an increase in psychotic behavior. Not the same if presented at a slower rate or with a neutral word. |
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1. Trust/Mistrust
2. Autonomy/Shame
3. Initiative/Guilt
4. Industry/Inferiority
5. Identity/Role Confusion
6. Intimacy/Isolation
7. Generativity/Stagnation
8. Ego Integrity/Despair |
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1. Receptive
2. Autonomy
3. Assertive
4. Integrated |
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| What did Stewart call responses to developmental changes or crisis? |
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Stances
(relation to authority, relation to others, feelings, actions) |
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Studied Harvard freshmen and their attitudes towards being at college. They were either receptive (I'm at Harvard surrounded by extremely smart individuals) or integrated (How can I use these 4 years for social networking?).
10 years later, the integrated ones said that Harvard was important for their world view, not for the classes.
Receptive ones said that Harvard was important for their identity formations. |
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| Looked at stances that individuals go through in their lives. Most kids are receptive in kindergarten and 1st grade, but then they shift to the asserted or integrated stages. |
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Differences in generational divorce rates, happiness, and roles.
Asked women if they would like to make a change and most said yes. If they made a change, they looked psychologically better 2 years later. |
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| Sullivan's Modes of Experience: |
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1. Prototaxic: earliest form of cognition. Events are undifferentiated.
2. Parataxic: experiences break into separate things.
3. Syntaxic: Use language to communicate experiences |
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| What was Sullivan's "personification?" |
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| Your template of different types of people, emotions, etc. that helps you organize your thoughts and discriminate between things in your life. Ex. personification of a "nice person" |
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| What was Sullivan's dynamism? |
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| An action; your habitual way of interacting. |
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1. Interpersonal relationships are the heart of human experience.
2. One's sense of one's self is based on other people's appraisal.
3. Our dynamism can change based on the situation |
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1. Infancy (proto->para)
2. Childhood (para->syntax), malevolent transformation
3. Juvenile: audience, disparagement, competition/cooperation, socialization, values
4. Pre-adolescence: chums, isolation
5. Early adolescence: separate intimacy and lust
6. Late adolescence: discovery of self/world, intimacy and lust |
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| Chumships are different for boys and girls. Girls become more anxious/depressed, while boys don't. Both sexes feel good about their chumships. |
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| Kids with imaginary friends scored higher on intelligence, sociability, imagination, and friendliness. |
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| Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, neuroticism, and openness to experience |
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| Emotional intelligence is the ability to manage emotions to get what you need to get done. Understanding emotional language and signals |
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| Characteristic adaptations: |
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| willingness to change; allow us to put into context how I'm going to use my characteristics. |
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