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| The scientific study of human behavior and mental processes |
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| (Wundt) to understand the mind, we need to identify its most basic components or parts |
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| (James)To understand the mind, we need to understand its function, the goals it was designed to achieve |
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| Functionalism, Principles of Psychology |
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| (Freud) To understand the mind, we need to examine how forces within the mind interrelate |
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| Psychodynamics, our personality and the way we function in the world arises because of subconscious functions (Ego, ID, Super-Ego) |
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| OCEAN (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism) |
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| Diagnostic and Statistical manual of Mental Disorders |
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| A clinically significant behavior or psychological syndrome that is associated with PRESENT DISTRESS or DISABILITY and have A SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED RISK OF SUFFERING DEATH, PAIN, DISABILITY, or AN IMPORTANT LOSS OF FREEDOM. |
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| Five axes/dimensions of functioning |
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| I: Clinical Disorder, II: Personality disorder, III: Relevant medical conditions IV: Stressors V: Overall Functioning |
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| clinical disorders, a change of state. includes substance-related disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, mood disorders |
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| Personality disorders. Enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from the norm. ABC personality disorders |
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| Cluster A Personality Disorder |
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| Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypical |
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| Cluster B Personality Disorder |
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| Dramatic/errant, treating others a certain way: Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic |
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| Cluster C Personality Disorder |
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| Anxious/Fearful: Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive-Compulsive |
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| Mental disorders are produced by the interaction of some vulnerability or predisposition and a precipitating event |
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| An interaction in which a trained professional tries to help another person think, feel, and/or behave differently. Usually eclectic. |
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| The ego is stressed out by the id and super-ego. Seeks balance. Free association, Transference, Interpretation, Corrective Emotional Experience |
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| Natural tendency to grow is being blocked. Rogers: Focus on self-actualization. Empathetic understanding, Unconditional positive regard, reflection of patient. |
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| Fixing maladaptive thinking patterns. Finds selective abstraction and logical errors and corrects these. More intervention. |
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| Dysfunctional patterns of learning have encoded problematic associations/ Pavlov, Skinner, Bandura. Exposure therapy, token economy, modeling. |
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| Direct interventions with the underlying biological mechanisms |
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| Controversial, indiscriminate destruction of frontal pathways. |
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| Electroconvulsive therapy |
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| Induces a seizure. Works for depression. |
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| pharmaceuticals--tinker with the complex mechanisms of mind. |
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| health is a state of total physical, psychological, and social well-being. |
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