DPR
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- Attribution error
- when a patient fits a negative stereotype
- Representativeness error
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thinking is guided by a prototype. thus.. it is the failure to consider possibilities that contradict the prototype
ie. a fit athlete cannot have a heart attack - Social contract
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agreement which values of society and medicine share.
trust is essential.
if either side has unreasonable expectations, trust is lost - Compartmentalization
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behaving as if one had a separate set of values
separating parts of the self from parts of the awareness - Displacement
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redircting thoughts & impulses from an object that gives rise to anxiety to a safer, more acceptable one
*being angry at the boss and kicking the dog - Example of compartmentalization
- an honest person who cheats on their income tax return and keeps their 2 value systems distinct and unintegrated while remaining unconscious of the cognitive dissonance
- Denial
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refusal to accept reality and to act as if a pianful event, thought or feeling did not exist
- one of the most primitive defense mechanisms! because it is characteristic of very early childhood development - Intellectualization
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using the cognitive approach without the attendant emotions to suppress and attempt to gain mastery over the perceived disorderly and potentially overwhelming impulses
*an individual who when told they had a life threatening disease focuses exclusively on the statistical percentages of recovery and is unable to cope with their fear and sadness - Regression
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reversion to an earlier stage of development in the face of unacceptable impulses
*a teenager who is overwhelmed with fear, anger, and growing sexual impulses might become clinging and begin thumb sucking or bed wetting - RePREssion
- the blocking of unacceptable impulses from consciousness
- Sublimation
- channeling of unacceptable impulses into more acceptable outlets
- Undoing
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the attempt to take back behavior or thoughts that are unacceptable
*excessively praising someone after having insulted them - sympathy
- harmony or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another
- respect
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accepting patients as he or she is
being nonjudgmental - mirror neurons
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a social brain system to interact and relate to other people