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| operates on pleasure principle-seeks immediate gratification. Has reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic drives. Present at birth, contains sexual and aggressive energy. Strongest part, unaware of others. Irrational, driven by pleasure. |
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| operates on reality principle-seeks to gratify id’s impulses in realistic ways-contains partly conscious perceptions, thoughts, judgments and memories. Develops at 6 months. Becomes aware, need for communication, understand bodily boundaries, self-interested. |
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| voice of conscience that forces ego to consider ideal as well as real. Strives for perfection. Ego struggles to reconcile id and superego. Develops at 3-5 years, conscience, internalize rules. Sees person as battleground—good and evil struggling against each other; original sin. |
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| Personality defense mechanisms |
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| Repression, regression, reaction formation, projection, rationalization, displacement |
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| behavior changes drastically in a manic episode. Not sleeping, inflated mood, fast speech, unusual behavior. |
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| more severe. Mania is not severe in bipolar 2 |
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milder symptoms of depressionfor months or years. Not much time with a normal
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no mania, just depression. Two types:
1. Major depression: episodic
2. Disthymia: low-grade depression most of the time. |
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| An attempt to understand brain function and how brain processes relate to various behaviors |
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| Identifying clusters of test results |
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| person-situation controversy |
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| looking for genuine personality traits that exist across time and situations |
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| interacting with our environment |
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| belief that external/internal forces control destiny |
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| milder than psychotic, person can still function normally |
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| severe, debilitating, irrational |
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| distressing, persistent anxiety |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| person is unexplainably and continually tense and uneasy |
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| sudden episodes of intense dread |
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| irrationally afraid of an object or situation |
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| person troubled by repetitive thoughts/actions |
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| Major Depressive Disorder |
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| prolonged hopelessness and lethargy rebounding to normality |
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| alternating between depression and mania. Often a response to past and current loss |
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| Thomas Hobbes' view of humans |
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| man is a beast that must be tamed by the state. social contract theory |
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| freud's view on hobbes: internalization |
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| each person/generation must be tamed anew |
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