Psychology Exam 4

Part of the mind that controls all inactive but accessible thoughts and memories

Part of the mind that controls all inactive but accessible thoughts and memories

Part of mind that houses all memories

Represented unconscious need for food, sex, etc. NOW / When we are born, we only have id / Libido: desire for something (can get stuck if no

Part of personality that encourages reason and deliberation and Helps to conform to requirements of world

actual behavior is opposite of what you really feel

unacceptable impulses are channeled into socially acceptable behavior

explanations are created to deal with threatening thoughts

you move back to an earlier stage of life because it's easier

Portion of personality that motivates people to act in an ideal fashion in accordance with moral customs

Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital

Basically different upbringings/environments lead to different personalities / plant analogy

An organized set of perceptions that we hold about our abilities and characteristics

The idea that we value what others think of use and that we seek others' approval, love, and companionship

come from incongruences between who you are and who you want to be

This is when you are who you want to be without incongruences

Not just social learning

what you think is controlling your behavior

you have little control

you have a lot of control because you can affect things

self-esteem

theory of social learning where people learn from each other

Triangle of Behavior, Cognitions, Environment

Statistics

Persistent anxiety not stemming from anything specific

Seemingly random anxiety hits in panic attacks with no apparent cause

Phobia takes over life

Self-explanatory

Used to be an anxiety disorder

Nothing is physically wrong

Believes something is seriously wrong with them (physically) when the reality is nothing is physically wrong

Memory loss worse than normal forgetting, Usually caused by psychological trauma

Complete loss of memory of identity. Other memories, like procedural, are intact (If you are not around people to help, you might develop ne

When a person develops two or more distinct personalities, known as sub-personalities, which in most cases are not known by host personality

Defined by disruptive mood changes that have no apparent cause to occur (Depressive is most common)

Moods go from one extreme to another (Depressive to Mania)

High part of bipolar, characterized by high self esteem, little sleep, high activity, etc.

person has a split with reality, some with hallucinations, language and thought disturbances, delusions, inappropriate/lack of moods, etc.

Grandeur, Influence, Persecution

Trephining (Crack a whole in skull so demon has a way to escape)

Make body a bad place to be so demon would want to get out (Beat

Nothing could be done to help

Proposed people with disorders were mentally sick, just like people who were physically sick

mental hospitals needed to be like other hospitals, where patients were treated as human beings (this actually helped some people)

Psychodynamic Approach/Psychoanalysis, Humanistic, Cognitive, Behavioral, Biomedical

Get the person to be consciously aware of problems that are in unconsciousness

patient is allowed to talk freely about whatever they want (The more you come to therapist

There is no unconsciousness, Sometimes there are major blocks set up in path to top of needs" pyramid"

Client will be treated a fully responsible person; Warm, open, accepting environment; Therapist has to be genuine, open, accepting

repeat clients words back in a different way

Focus on persons beliefs and attitudes so they can gain insight

People who are depressed Tend to have selective perception, over-generalize, and see in black and white

Try to get client to think about all the good parts (Done by talking through clients reasoning)

ABC: Activating Event, Emotional Consequence (Irrational Belief), Depression); therapy tries to change irrational belief

Learn new way or unlearn old way of responding to something

The idea is you cannot be afraid and relaxed at the same time

Conditioned to have aversion to something [Ex) Shock when cigarette]

Overexposure to phobia desensitizes it

Thinks like points or tokens used instead of money in order to reinforce behavior

lobotomy, drugs, etc.

take a while to take effect

treat sever disorders like Schizophrenia

artificially induced seizure (does nothing for psychotic but seems to help depression)

Stimulates part of the brain known to be underactive in depression using a magnet