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Mass Communication unit 3
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Product Placement
Definition
Buying spaces to have your goods appear on TV or a movie
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Space Brokers
Definition
Individuals who purchased space in newspapers and sold it to various merchants
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Subliminal Advertising
Definition
Refers to hidden or disguised print and visual messages that allegedly register on the subconscious and fool people into buying products.
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Slogan
Definition
A phrase that attempts to sell a product by capturing its essence in words
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Mega-agencies
Definition
large ad firms that are formed by merging several individual agencies that maintain world wide regional offices
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Boutique Agencies
Definition
Smaller agencies that devoted their talents to a handful of select clients
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Demographics
Definition
market research that studied and documented audience members' age, gender, occupation, ethnicity, education, and income
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Psychographics
Definition
a research approach that attempts to categorize consumers according to their attitudes, beliefs, interests, and motivations
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Focus Groups
Definition
A small-group interview technique in which a moderator leads a discussion about a product or an issue, usually with six to twelve people
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Value and Lifestyles (VALS)
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A strategy which divides consumers into types using a questionnaire
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Market Research
Definition
a department of agencies that assesses the behaviors and attitudes of consumers toward particular products long before any ads are created
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Storyboard
Definition
A blueprint or roughly drawn comic-strip version of a potential ad
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Media Buyers
Definition
people who choose and purchase types of media that are best suited to carry a clients ads and reach the target audience
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Saturation Advertising
Definition
Advertising in which a variety of media are inundated with ads aimed at target audiences
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Account Executives
Definition
Individuals responsible for bringing in new business and managing the accounts of established clients
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Account Reviews
Definition
The process of evaluating and reinvigorating a product's image by reviewing an existing ad agency's campaign or by inviting several new agencies to submit new campaign strategies, which may result in the product company switching agencies
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Famous Person Testimonials
Definition
Whereby a product is endorsed by a well-known person
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Plain-folks Pitch
Definition
Associates a product with simplicity, showing how new technologies fit into the lives of ordinary people
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Snob-appeal Approach
Definition
Attempts to persuade consumers that using a product will maintain or elevate their social status
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Bandwagon Effect
Definition
Points out in exaggerated claims that everyone is using a particular product
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Hidden-fear appeal
Definition
plays on consumers' sense of insecurity
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Irritation Advertising
Definition
Creating product-name recognition by being annoying or obnoxious
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Association Principle
Definition
A persuasive technique used in most consumer ads by associating a product some cultural value or image that has a positive connotation but may not have any real connection
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Myth Analysis
Definition
Provides insights into how ads work at a general cultural level
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Commercial Speech
Definition
Any print or broadcast expression for which a fee is charged to organizations and individuals buying time or space in the mass media
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Infomercials
Definition
30 minute late-night and daytime programs usually feature fading TV and music celebrities who advertise a product or service in a format that looks like a laid-back talk show
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Interstitials
Definition
Ads that pop up in new screen windows as the user attempts to access a new web pages
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Spam
Definition
Unsolicited email ads
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Publicity
Definition
One type of PR communications: messages spread information about a person, corp., issue or policy in various media
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Public Relations
Definition
Covers a wide array of actions, such as shaping the image of a politician or celebrity, repairing the image of a major corporation, establishing two-way communication between consumers and companies, and molding wartime propaganda
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Press Agents
Definition
Those who sought to advance a clients image through media exposure, primarily via stunts staged for newspapers
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Pseudo-event
Definition
any circumstance created for the purpose of gaining coverage in the media
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Propaganda
Definition
Communication strategically placed, wither as advertising or as publicity, to gain pblic support for a special issue, program, or policy, such as a nation's war effort
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Press Release
Definition
Announcements, written in the style of news reports, that give new information about an individual, a company, or an organization and pitch a story idea to the news media
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Video News Releases (VNRs)
Definition
30 to 90 second visual PR stories packaged to mimic the style of a broadcast news report
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Public Service Announcements (PSA)
Definition
15 to 60 second reports or announcements for radio or television that promote government programs, educational projects, volunteer agencies, or social reform
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Lobbying
Definition
The process of attempting to influence the voting of lawmakers to support an organization's or and industry's best interest
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Astroturf Lobbying
Definition
Phony grass-roots public affairs campaigns engineered by public relations firms
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Flack
Definition
Derives from military flack, come to mean PR people who insert themselves between their employers/clients and members of th press
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Monopoly
Definition
occurs when a single firm dominates production and distribution in a particular industry, whether nationally or locally
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Oligopoly
Definition
Describes an economic situation in which just a few firms dominate an industry
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Limited Competition
Definition
Sometimes called monopolistic competition, characterizes a media market with many producers and sellers but only in a few differentiable products within a particular category
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Direct Payment
Definition
Involves media products supported primarily by consumers, who pay directly for a book, cd, a movie, an internet service provide, or a cable TV subscription
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Indirect Payment
Definition
Involves media products supported primarily by advertisers, who pay for the quantity or quality of audience members that a particular medium delivers
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Economies of Scale
Definition
A principle that refers to the practice of increasing production levels so as to reduce the overall cost per unit
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Synergy
Definition
Typically refers to the promotion and sale of different versions of a media product across the various subsidiaries of a media conglomerate
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Cultural Imperialism
Definition
The culture of a place (e.g. America) shaping the cultures an identities of other nations
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Newsworthiness
Definition
Information most worth of transformation into news stories
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News
Definition
The process of gathering info and making narrative reports- edited by individuals in for-profit news organizations-that offer selected frames of reference
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Ethnocentrism
Definition
In most news reporting, especially foreign coverage, reporters judge other countries cultures on the basis of how "they live up to or imitate American practices and values"
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Responsible Capitalism
Definition
An underlying value, contending that journalists sometimes naively assume that businesspeople compete with one another not primarily to maximize profits but "to create increased prosperity for all."
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Small-town pastoralism
Definition
Favoring small over the large and the rural over the urban
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Individualism
Definition
The most prominent value underpinning daily journalism. They look for it and they pride themselves on being it
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Conflict of interest
Definition
Any situation in which journalists may stand to benefit personally from stories they produce
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Herd journalism
Definition
Occurs when reporters stake out a house or follow a story in such large groups that the entire profession comes under attack for invading people's privacy and exploiting their personal tradgedies.
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Sound bite
Definition
The TV equivalent of a quote in print news, a sound bite is the part of broadcast news report which an expert, celebrity, victim, or person-on-the-street responds in an interview to some aspect of an event or issue
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Media Effects
Definition
Attempting to understand, explain, and predict the effects of mass media on individuals and society
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Pseudo-polls
Definition
Typically call-in, online, or person-in-the-street polls that media uses to address a "question of the day"
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Hypodermic-needle model
Definition
Also called the magic bullet theory or the direct effects model. It suggests that the media shoot their potent effects directly into unsuspecting victims
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Selective Exposure
Definition
We selectively expose ourselves to media messages that are most familiar to us
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Selective retention
Definition
we retain messages that confirm the values and attitudes we already hold
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Uses and gratifications model
Definition
Under this model, researchers-usually using in-depth interviews to supplement survey questionnaires-studied the ways in which people sued the media to satisfy various emotional or intellectual needs
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Scientific method
Definition
1)identify the problem
2)Review pre-existing info related
information
3)Develop a hypothesis
4)Determine a method
5)Collect info or relevant data
6)Analyze results
7)Interpret
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Hypothisis
Definition
Tentative general statements that predict a relationship between a dependent variable that is influenced by a independent variable
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Experiments
Definition
Isolate some aspect of content, suggest a hypothesis, and manipulate variables to discover a particular medium's impact on attitude, emotion, or behavior
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Random Assignment
Definition
Selected from a group, every subject has an equal chance of being picked
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Survey Research
Definition
a method of collecting and measuring data taken from a group of respondents
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Longitudinal Studies
Definition
Long range studies which make it possible for social scientists to compare new studies with those conducted years earlier
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Content Analysis
Definition
To study the messages of print and visual media
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Social learning theory
Definition
Attention, retention, motor reproduction and motivation (We learn are replicate things we see in media: BoBo Doll)
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Agenda setting
Definition
When mass media pays attention to particular events or issues, they determine- that is, set the agenda for- the major topics of discussion for individuals and society
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cultivation effect
Definition
Suggests that heavy viewing of television leads individuals to perceive reality in ways that are consistent with television portrayals
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spiral of silence
Definition
A theory that links the mass media, social psychology, and the formation of public opinion. People who find out their views are controversial and that they are in a minority, keep quiet
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cultural studies
Definition
A body of research challenging the mainstream media effects models in the 1960s.
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textual analysis
Definition
The close reading and interpretation of the meanings of culture, including the study of books, movies and TV programs
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Minimal-effects Model
Definition
Researcher generally argued that people engage in selective exposure and selective retention with regard to the media
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Authoritarian Model
Definition
Elites and Rulers run the entire country and are in control of everything
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Communist or state model
Definition
Press control resides in government
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Libertarian model
Definition
Flip side of state and authoritarian systems encourages vigorous government criticism and supports the highest degree of freedom for individual speech and news operations
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social responsibility model
Definition
That the media is responsible for the role it plays in society
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prior restraint
Definition
Courts and governments cannot block any publication or speech before it actually occurs, on the principle that a law has not been broken until an illegal act has been committed
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copyright
Definition
legally protects the rights of authors and producers to their published or unpublished writing, music, and lyrics, TV programs and movies, or graphic art designs
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slander
Definition
Spoken language that defames a person's character
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libel
Definition
defamation of character in written or broadcast expression
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actual malice
Definition
Means that the reporter or editor knew the statement was false and printed or broadcast it anyway, or acted with a reckless disregard for the truth.
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qualified privilage
Definition
The privilege to report judicial or legislative proceedings even though the public statements being reported may be libelous
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invasion of privacy
Definition
A person's right to be left alone, without his or her name, image, or daily activities becoming public policy
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obscenity
Definition
1)The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the material as a whole appeals to prurient interest
2)The material depicts or describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way
3)The material, as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value
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gag orders
Definition
Orders issued to prohibit the press from releasing preliminary information that might prejudice jury selection
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shield laws
Definition
Protect reporters from having to reveal their sources for controversial information used in news stories
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indecency
Definition
Profanity?
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section 315
Definition
Mandates that during elections broadcast stations must provide equal opportunities and response time for qualified political candidates
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fairness doctrine
Definition
1) had to air and engage in controversial-issue program that affected their communities
2) When offering such programming, to provide competing views
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Fourth Estate
Definition
That the media is an unofficial branch of government
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Trait
Definition
A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports
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Schizophrenia
Definition
A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions.
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Bipolar disorder
Definition
A mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.
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Major depressive disorder
Definition
A mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the abscene of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure inmost activities.
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Mania
Definition
A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state.
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Lobotomy
Definition
A now-rare psychsurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.
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Antisocial personality disorder
Definition
A personality disorder in which the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist.
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Projective test
Definition
A personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics.
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Cognitive-behavior therapy
Definition
A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy ( changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).
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Meta-analysis
Definition
A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.
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Thematic Appreciation Test (TAT)
Definition
A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.
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Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Definition
A psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
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Personality inventory
Definition
A questionnaire, often with true-false or agree-disagree items, on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits.
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Dissociative identity disorder (DID)
Definition
A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
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Self-serving Bias
Definition
A readiness to perceive oneself favorably.
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Empirically derived test
Definition
A test (such as the MMPI) developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups.
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Systematic desensitization
Definition
A type of counter-conditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.
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Aversive conditioning
Definition
A type of counter-conditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)
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Oedipus complex
Definition
According to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.
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Fixation
Definition
According to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved.
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Unconscious
Definition
According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware.
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Self-actualization
Definition
According to Maslow, the ultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential.
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Unconditional positive regard
Definition
According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person.
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Conformity
Definition
Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard
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Self-concept
Definition
All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "who am I?"
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Post-traumatic stress disorder
Definition
An anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience.
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Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
Definition
An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions).
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Phobia
Definition
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
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Panic Disorder
Definition
An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations.
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Eclectic approach
Definition
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
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Psychotherapy
Definition
An emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties.
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Psychotherapy
Definition
An emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties.
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Personality
Definition
An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
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Token economy
Definition
An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats.
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Prejudice
Definition
An unjustifiable (and usually negative) attitude toward a group and its members. Prejudice generally involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings, and a predisposition to discriminatory action.
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Exposure therapies
Definition
Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid.
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Collective unconscious
Definition
Carl Jung's concept of shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history.
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Id
Definition
Contains an reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.
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Rationalization
Definition
Defense mechanisms that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions.
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Psychological disorder
Definition
Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional behavior patterns.
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Dissociative disorders
Definition
Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated)from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.
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Active listening
Definition
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client centered therapy.
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Delusions
Definition
False beliefs, often of persecutions or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders.
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Attitude
Definition
Feelings, often based on our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects people, and events.
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Psychoanalysis
Definition
Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions.
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Free association
Definition
In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
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Interpretation
Definition
In psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.
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Resistance
Definition
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
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Repression
Definition
In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.
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Defense Mechanisms
Definition
In psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
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Informational social influence
Definition
Influence resulting from one's willingness to accept other's opinions about reality
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Tardive dyskinesia
Definition
Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 dopamine receptors.
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Self-esteem
Definition
One's feelings of high or low self-worth.
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Personal Control
Definition
Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless.
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Spotlight effect
Definition
Overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as we presume a spotlight shines on us).
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Mood Disorders
Definition
Physiological disorders caused by emotional extremes.
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Biomedical therapy
Definition
Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system.
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Terror-management theory
Definition
Proposes that faith in one's world view and the pursuit of self-esteem provide protection against a deeply rooted fear of death.
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Projection
Definition
Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.
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Reaction formation
Definition
Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites. Thus, people may express feelings that are the opposite of their anxiety-arousing unconscious feelings.
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Regression
Definition
Psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated.
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Displacement
Definition
Psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet.
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Anxiety Disorder
Definition
Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety
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Personality disorders
Definition
Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning.
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Psychoanalysis
Definition
Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transference's-and the therapist's interpretations of them-released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.
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Attribution theory
Definition
Suggests how we explain someone's behavior-by crediting wither the situation or the person's disposition.
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Psychosurgery
Definition
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.
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DSM-IV
Definition
The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition), a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. Presently distributed in an updated "text revision" (DSM-IV-TR)
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repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
Definition
The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity.
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Psychosexual Stages
Definition
The childhood stages of development(oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital) during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.
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Group polarization
Definition
The enhancement of a prevailing group's prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group.
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Learned helplessness
Definition
The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.
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Reciprocal Determinism
Definition
The interacting influences between personality and environmental factors
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Ego
Definition
The largely conscious, "executive" parts of the personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. The ego operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in ways that will realistically being pleasure rather than pain.
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Groupthink
Definition
The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Definition
The most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use), this test is now used for many other screening purposes.
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Rorschach inkblot test
Definition
The most widely used prjective test, a set of ten inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots.
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Superego
Definition
The part of the personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement (the conscience) and for future aspirations.
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External Locus of control
Definition
The perception that chance or outside forces beyond one;s personal control determine one's fate.
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Internal locus of control
Definition
The perception that one controls one's own fate.
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Identification
Definition
The process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parent's values into their developing superegos.
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Social psychology
Definition
The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.
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Postitive psychology
Definition
The scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.
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Psychopharmacology
Definition
The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior.
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Regression toward the mean
Definition
The tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back toward their average.
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Fundamental attribution error
Definition
The tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of the personal disposition.
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Social loafing
Definition
The tendency for people in a group to exert effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable
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Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Definition
The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request.
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Cognitive dissonance theory
Definition
The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two or more thoughts (cognition) are inconsistent. For example, when our awareness of our attitudes and of our actions clash, we cab reduce the resulting dissonance by changing our attitudes.
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Behavior therapy
Definition
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.
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Cognitive therapy
Definition
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.
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Family therapy
Definition
Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views as an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members; attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships and improved communication.
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Social-cognitive perspective
Definition
Views behaviors as influenced by the interaction between persons (and their thinking) and their social context.
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