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PSYCH 10, 11, 12
Psychology 101
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/17/2010

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psychodynamic personality theories
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theories of personality that share the assumption that personality is shaped by and behvaior is motivated by inner forces
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libido
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Freud's term for the psychic energy that drives us toward sensual pleasures of all types.
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psychic determinism
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the assumption that all mental and behavioral reactions are determined by earlier experiences.
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repression
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the psychological process that protects an individual from experiencing extreme anxiety of guilt about impulses, ideas, or memories that are unacceptable or dangerous to express.
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ego defense mechanisms
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mental strategies the ego uses to defend itself in the faily conflict between id impulses that seek expression and the superego's demand to deny them.
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achetype
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a primitive symbolic representation of a particular experience or object. Carl jung used archetypes to argue that there was a collective unconscious across the whole human race.
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analytic psychology
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a view of personality as a constellation of compensating internal forces in dynamic balance.
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psychobiography
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the use of psychological theory to transform a life into a coherent and illuminating story.
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reciprocal determinism
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a concept that implies that you must examine all components of the individual, their behavior, and the environment if you want to completely understand human behavior, personality, and social ecology.
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self-efficacy
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the belief that one can perform adequately in a particular situation.
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Social intelligence
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the expertise people bring to their experience of life tasks.
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self-concept
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a structure that motivates, interprets, organizes, mediates, and regulates intrapersonal and interpersonal behavior and processes.
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possible selves
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the idea self that we would like to become
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self handicapping
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you deliberately sabotage your performance.
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independent constructruals of self
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conceptualization of the self as an individual whose behavior is organized primarily by reference to one's own thoughts, feelings, and actions, rather than by reference to the tohoughts, feelings, and actions of others.
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interdependent construals of self
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conceptualization of the self as part of an encompassing social relationship... behavior is determined and contingent on others.
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psychopathological functioning
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disruptions in emotional, behavioral, or thought processes that lead to personal distress or blocks the ability to achieve goals.
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abnormal psychology
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the area of psychology most concerned with the understanding the nature of individual pathologies of mind, mood, and behavior.
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DSM-IV-TR
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the classificiation scheme developed by the American Psychiatrist Association.
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comorbidity
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the co-occurrence of mental diseases.
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social phobia
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irrational fear that arises in anticiplation of a public situation.
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major depressive disorder
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a mood dissorder characterized by intense feelings of depression over an extended time, without the manic high phase of bipolar depression,
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Personality Disorder
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long standing, inflexible, maladaptive pattern of percieving, thinkging or behaving.
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borderline personality disorder
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individuals that have this disorder experience great instability and intensity in personal relationships.
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antisocal personality disorder
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marked by a long standing patter of irresponsibile or unlawful behavior that violates social norms.
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somatization disorder
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long history of phsycial complaints that are medically unexplained
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conversion disorder
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loss of motor or sensory function that cant be explained by anything
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dissociateive disorder
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disturbance in the integration of identity, memory, or consciousness
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Dissociative identity disorder
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formally multiple personality disorder. 2 distinct personalities exist within the same individual
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schizophrenic disorder
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personality seems to disintegrate, thought and perception are distorted, and emotions are nlunted.
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biomedical therapies
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focus on changing the mechanisms that run the central nervous ...try to alter brain functioning with chemical or physical interventions.
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psychotherapy
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focus on changing the faulty behaviors people have learned: the words, thoughts, interprestations, and feedback that direct daily strategies for living.
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clinical social worker
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mental health professions whose specialized training in a school of social work prepares them to work in collaboration with psychiatrists and psychologists.
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pastoral counselor
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member or a religious group who specializes in treatment.
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clinical psychologist
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has PhD in assessing and treating psychological problems.
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counseling psychologist
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Also has PhD. usually works in guidance areas (schools)
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psychiatrist
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must have medical training. can prescribe drugs.
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psychoanalyst
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a therapist with either an MD or a PhD in the FREUDIAN area.
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insight therapy
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a therapy used where the central goal of the therapist is to guide the patient toward discovering insights into the relationships between present symptoms and past origins.
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catharsis
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an emotional release of something that may have been repressed
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transference
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an emotional reaction developed toward the therapist by the patient.. Can be positive or negative.
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countertransference
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When a therapist comes to like/dislike a patient because the patient is perceived as similar to significant people in the therapist's life.
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counterconditioning
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a new response is conditioned to replace a bad response
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exposure therapy
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individuals are made to confront the object or situation that causes anxiety
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systematic desensitization
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confronting the feared stimulus while being relaxed and doing so in a graduated way.
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Aversion therapy
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uses counterconditioning procedures to pair the simuli with a strong, noxious stimili (like shock) so that the person will develop on aversion that replaces the former desire.
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contingency management
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the treatment strategy of changing behavior by modifying its consequences.
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social learning therapy
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designed to modify problematic behavior patterns by arranging conditions in which a client will observe models being reinforced for a desirable form of responding.
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participant modeling
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therapeutic technique in which a therpist demonstrates the desired behavior and a client is aided through encouragement to imitate this behavior.
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behavioral rehearsal
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visualizing how one should behave in a given situation and visualize the desired positive consequences.
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rational-emotive therapy
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a system of personality change based on the transformation of irrational beliefs that cause undesirable, highly charged emotional reactions- such as anxiety. irrational beliefs like you MUST succeed
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client centered therapy
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a humanistic approach to treatment that emphaiszes the healthy growth of the individual on the assumption that all people share the basic tendency of humannature toward self actualization
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gesalt therapy
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focuses on ways to unite mind and body to make a person feel whole. Helps clients express pent up feelings and recognize unfinished business.
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