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- schizophrenia
- severe disorder in which the person suffers from disordered thinking,bizarre behavior,hallucinating and is unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality
- conformity
- changing ones on behavior to match that of other people
- fundamental attributions error
- the tendancey to overestimate the influence of internal factors and determining behavior while underestimating situational factors
- behavioral genetics
- field of study devoted to discovering the genetic basis for personality charcteristics
- projective test
- personality assessments that present ambiguous stimuli to the client and asks client to respond to whatever comes to mind
- psycho pathology
- the study of abnormal behavior
- maladaptive behaviors
- anything that does not allow a person to function within or adapt to the stresses and everyday demands of life
- super ego
- part of the personality that acts as a moral center
- identity
- what identifies somebody or something: the name or essential character that identifies somebody or something
- ocd
- obsessive compulsive disorder,person is obsessive,distressing intrusive thoughtsand related compulsions(rituals)which attempt to neutralize the obsession
- gestalt therapy
- form of directive insight therapy in which the therapist helps clients to accept all parts of their feelings and subjective experiences using leading questions and planned experiences such as role play
- dissociative fugue
- traveling away from familiar surroundings with amnesia for the trip and possible amnesia of personal info
- albert ellis
- proposed version of cbt called rational emotional behavioral therapy,cleints are taught to challenge beliefs with rational helpful statements
- borderline personality disorder
- maladaptive personality pattern in which a person is moody,unstable,lax clear sense of identity and often clings to others
- fixation
- disorder in which the person does not fully resolve the conflicts in a particular psycho sexual stage resulting in personaltiy traits and behavior associated with the earlier stage
- generalized anxiety disorder
- disorder which a person has feelings of dread or impending doom, along with physical symptoms of stress which lasts 6 months or more
- psycho-analytical model
- sees anxiety as a kind of danger signal that repress urges or conflicts are threatening to surface
- unconscience mind
- level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings and memory and other info are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness
- saratonin
- neorotransmitter acts as excitory or inhibitory chemical associated with sleep,mood and appetite
- carl rogers
- proposed that everyone has a real self (actual traits and abilities) and ideal self (how people think it should be)
- Albert bandura
- He is most well known for his work in social learning theory, a form of behaviorism emphasizing the cognitive components of thought, appraisal, and understanding.
- big five personality traits
- openness,conscientiousness,extroversion,agreeableness and neuroticism
- electro convulsive therapy(ect)
- a form of bio-medical therapy, to treat severe depression in which electrdes are places on one or both sides of patients head and running enough electricity thru to cause seizures
- phobia
- an irratonal persistence fear of an object,situation or social activity
- stereotype
- a set of characteristics that people belive is shared by all members of a particular social category
- Sternberg's theory of love
- According to Sternberg, individuals have two different triangles of love: the triangle that characterizes their current relationship, and the triangle of their ideal relationship. Sternberg reports that the most successful couples occur when the two individuals have more compatible triangles.
- raymond cattel
- defined two types of traits..surface traits and source traits
- mood disorder
- disorder in which mood is severely distorted
- coginitve disenence
- sense of discomfort or distress that occurs when a persons behavior does not correspond ti a persons attitude
- dsm-iv-tr
- dsm=diagnostc and statistical manual of mental disorders/iv=the 4th edition and tr=text revision
- romantic love
- a type of love consisting of intimacy and passion
- social cognitive theory
- theory about the use of cognitve processes in relation to understanding the social world
- collective unconscience
- jung's name for the memories shared by all members of the human species
- biological model
- model of explaining behavior cause by biological changes in chemical,structural or genetic systems of the body
- gordon allport
- one of the first to focus the study of the personality,founding figure of personality psychology
- physiological disorder
- any pattern of behavior that causes people significant distress, causes them to harm others or harms their ability to function in daily life
- delusions
- false beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness
- dysthymia
- a moderate depression that lasts for 2 years or more and is typically a reaction to external factors
- reality principle
- principle by which the ego functions disatisfaction of the demands of the id only with very few external ques
- bipolar disorder
- severe mood swings between major depressive episodes and manic episodes
- psycho sexual stages
- five stages of personality development proposed by freud and tied to sexual development in children p449
- odepidus complex
- situation occuring in the phallic stage in which a child develops a sexual attration of the opposite sex parent and jealousy of the same sex parent
- neurotransmitters
- chemical found in synaptic vesicles that when released has an effect on the next cell
- free association
- freudian technique in which a patient was encouraged to talk about anything that comes to mind without fear of negative evaluations(laying on couch:psychiatrist)
- alcoholic anoynomous
- free and provide social emotional support with an acolchol addiction
- mood disorder
- disorders in which mood is severely disturbed
- rorschach
- The Rorschach is the most commonly used projective technique. The test consists of ten white cards with blots of ink on them in either black, black and red, or multi colored. These inkblots were originally random in design and these have been maintained although much research has gone into each card.
- paranoid schizophrenia
- type of schitsophrenia in which the person suffers from delusions of persecutions and grandeur,jealousy and severe hallucinations
- factor analysis
- using a statistical teqnique that looks for groupings and common ties in numerical data
- personality disorder
- disorders in which a person adopts a persisitent,rigid a maladaptive pattern of behavior that interferes with normal, social interactions
- systematic desynthesization
- behavior teqnique used to treat phobias,client makes a list of fears taught to relax while concentrating on those fears
- delusions of grandeaur
- extreme jealousy of another or several other persons
- eric errickson
- emphaszed development of the ego and importance of social relationships with parents,peers,and other people and persistently challenged
- unconditioned postitve regard
- the warm respct and accepting atmosphere created by therapists for client
- defense mechanism
- ways of dealing with stress thru unconscience distorting ones perception of realty
- benzodiazepienes
- drugs that lower anxiety and reduce stress
- alfred adler
- developed the theory that as young helpless children people develop feelings of inferoirity when comparing themselves to the more powerful superior people
- attribution theory
- theory of how people make attributions
- compassionate love
- type of love consisting of intimacy and commitment
- milgram
- designed most famous experiments,45 volt shock generator designed as a simple memory test for paired words
- group think
- a kind of thinking that occurs when people place more importance on maintaining group cohevisness than on assesing the facts of the problems with which the group is concerned