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Psychology Final
Ciccarelli & white 3rd Generation
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/21/2013

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Term
Insomnia
Definition
Persistant problems in staying or falling asleep, Cronic when most nights in 1 month period.
causes- Stress, Anxiety, Depressed. Stimulis overload
Treatment: Druges, Sleep restriction, Stimulis control, relax response training (10 weeks)
Term
Tips for sleep
Definition
Higher thread count, elevation, clean room, make bed, turn alarm clock around
Term
Breathing Technique
Definition
Even breathing, deep breaths, slow breaths
-> Decrease time to get to sleep, increase sleep, reduction in anxiety and depression, maintain after 6 months
Term
DREAMS
Definition
sequence of images, emotuomns, and thoughts passing through a sleeping persons mind.
-hallucinatory images - discontinuity (jumps around)
-incongruity (car in ocean) - delusional acceptance of content - difficulty remembering (unconscious)
Term
Why do we dream - Freud
Definition
Sigmund freud - the interpretation of dreams (1900) wish fulfillment, discharge of unacceptable feelings.
-> Manifest content- story line (what happened really)
-> latent content - underlying meaning
Term
Activation Synthesis theory
Definition
-randon mental activity that the brain tries to justify -helps facilitate memory
-activity in pons not frontal lobes
John Allan Hobson, Rocert McCarley 1977
Term
Activation Information Mode Model (AIM MODEL)
Definition
improved AST
- uses experience from previous few days to make up the dreams
Term
Percentages on dreams
Definition
remember dreams couple times per week
- 70% reoccurring dreams
-50% lucid dreaming
- 40% control dreams
- 80% get attacked
- 35% celebrities
- 10% dream of future
Term
top 10 most popular dreams (1-5)
Definition
1) Falling- instability / no balance
2) chased/ attacked - Something is holding you back
3) trying to do something over and over - isecurited / low . self worth
4) School- most time spent (science) concern with performance
5) Sex - emotion /relationship going good/bad
sex w/ ex is red flag, #1 most interpreted dream
Term
top 10 most popular dreams (6-10)
Definition
6) being late - lack of control
7) nuditiy - feels vulnerable or exposed ( freedom - positive)
8) teeth - over conscious with your appearance
9) death - a new beginning (closure, Rebirth)
10) flying- over coming or rising above obstacles.
Term
what is personality
Definition
Personality (leading perspective) - a individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting.
Term
psycho analytic perspective
Definition
Frueds theory - proposes that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivation influence and personality. mind is an iceberg everything above conscious, bellow is unconscious
Term
conscious, pre-conscious, unconscious, Freudian slip
Definition
conscious- what were aware of (working memory)
Pre conscious- LTM (not available atm but easily accessed
unconscious - thoughts memories and feelings that are kept not easily accessed
Freudian slip- revealing through errors in speech
Term
personality structure (iceberg)
Definition
ID- (little Devil) contains libido (any kind of pleasurable urge
- strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drive, pleasure principle demanding immediate satisfaction
Super Ego (little Angel) Ego Ideal - part of personality that presents internize consequences - provides standards for judgements and future aspirations
Ego - Mediator Decision maker - largely conscious 'executive part of personality - reality principle - satisfying IDS desire in realistic ways
Term
Defense mechanisms
Definition
frueds greatest contributions - unconscious distortions of a persons perceptions of reality - reduce stress and anxiety
Term
Denial
Definition
Refusal to acknowledge
despite over whelming evidence she refuses to believe he committed murder
Term
Repression
Definition
Punishing threatening events out of conscious memories
-After a traumatic childhood including sexual abuse, Pete, now an adult, cannot recall most of the trauma.
Term
Rationalization
Definition
Acceptable excuse for unacceptable behavior
- Kate explains that she chooses not to quit smoking because buying the patch is more expensive than paying for actual cigarettes.
Term
Regression
Definition
Falling back on childlike behaviors
- After bank robbery attendant begins sucking her thumb
Term
Reaction Formation
Definition
Emotional reaction opposite of actual unacceptable thoughts
- Gay hate, because they are actually gay.
Term
Displacement
Definition
Expressing feelings on to substitue target.
- Brother tearing up sisters favorite doll after she comes home from the hospital
Term
sublimation
Definition
Turning unacceptable urges into acceptable behavior
- Spots, boxing, MMA
Term
Identification
Definition
Trying to become like someone else
-Roger, after recognizing that he must share his mother’s affection with his dad, begins to associate and bond with his father
Term
Compensation
Definition
Overcome feelings of inferiority in one area by striving to be superior in another.
- Guys and big trucks
Term
Projection
Definition
Placing unacceptable thoughts onto others
- Diane, who keeps accusing Sam of being in love with her, probably has secret desires for Sam
Term
Assessing the unconscious
projective test-
Definition
Personality test that provides ambiguous stimulus designed to trigger projections of ones inner dynamic.
Term
Rorschach InkBlot Test
Definition
- Most widely used test
- Seeks to identify peoples inner feelings by analyzing their interpretation of the blots
Term
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Definition
-Henry Murry
- People express their feelings and inters through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes
- Looking for a theme ( 20 cards psych chooses 10 to show)
Term
Analytic psychology [(neo Freudian) New]
carl jung
junian typology
Definition
-collectieve unconscious archetypes (templates , schemes)
-psychological functions
- collection of traits based on questions of preference
Term
psychological functions
Definition
orientations of the world - extroverts, introverts
sense organs
emotional arousal
Term
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Definition
-4 letter profile
- majority of therapists don't deal with unconscious mind
Term
sense organs
emotional arousal
Definition
seeing is beliving - sensing
not direct (theory) - intuitive
heart on sleeve - feelers
hide emotion- thinkers
Term
humanistic perspective (conscious)
Carl Rogers
(mullers fav)
Definition
Rogerian therapy focused on growth and fulfillment of individuals
genuine -acceptance - empathy (takes problems as own)
also group therapy
Term
abraham Maslow
Definition
focused on fulfiment of needs
hierarchy of needs bottom to top - psychological needs(hunger thirst) - safety needs (house, clothes) - social needs (bonds, relationships) - esteem needs ( personal growth) - Self actualization ( reach full potential)
Term
personality disorder
Definition
disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social function.
-people with it - viewed by those with pds as being normal everyone else as weird
- have signs before age 18, but cant yet be diagnosed
Term
cluster A : odd eccentric reaction
Definition
Paranoid, Schizo(do not want social interaction), shizotypal (baby schizophrenia, rare extreme psychotic breaks
Term
Cluster B : dramatic, emotion, erratic
Definition
- anti social(men) ( against society , don't care about others needs)
- Borderline(women) (instability in relationships, one min love the next hate, don't know which side your getting)
- Histrionic(men) (drama queen, over dramatic, uses sexuality for advantage, pathological liars, one uppers genetic or learned)
-Narcissistic(men) ( ego centric, superior to others, need admiration, like antisocial not aggressive)
Term
Cluster C : involving anxiety and fearfulness
Definition
-avoidance(avoid everything, no friends want friends, avoids most people)
- Dependent (cant make decisions, clingy, fakes illness,
- obsessive compulsive disorder OCPD (love having it, have to things they want, love repeating over and over.
Term
psychological disorders
Definition
a harmful dysfunction in which behavior is judged to be
- atypical -disturbing - maladaptive - unjustifiable
Term
What is a anxiety disorders
Definition
group whose dominant symptom is excessive or unrealistic anxiety of fearfulness
Term
what are some anxiety disorders
Definition
-phobias -panic disorder (5-10 mins, heart racing, multiple panic attacks) - generalized panic disorder (GAD) (free floating anxiety, cant pin point)
-obsessive compulsive disorder (they dont want it) -post tramtic stress disorder ( got through real drama, vietnam)
Term
top 10 phobias (1-5)
Definition
aracnophobia (spiders) -Social phobia (stage fright) - aerophobia (flying) - agoraphobia (open spaces) -claustrophobia (enclosed spaces)
Term
top 10 phobias (6-10)
Definition
- acrophobia (heights) - emetophobia (vomiting) -caremophobia (cancer) brontophobia (thunder storms) -necrophobia (death)
Term
what is a Mood disorder
Definition
extremes of mood serve disturbed mood
Term
types of mood disorders
Definition
majoir depression (5% americans 3% men 7% women)
Bipolar disorder(tigger) BP1- major dep and manic BP2- depressed and hypo mania
dysthymia- moderately depressed fo years (pessimist eeyore )
cyclothymia-mod. depressed and hypo mania (baby bipolar)
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