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42 Cards in this Set
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What is the worst type of behaviors |
Maladaptive because they interfere with effective functioning |
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Psychology disorders GENERALLY |
Produce maladaptive behaviors |
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Biomedical therapy |
A prescribed medicine or medical procedure that acts directly on the nervous system |
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Psychoanalysis |
Freud assumed that many psychological problems are fueled by childhood residue of repressed impulses and conflict |
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Freud sought to.... |
Bring repressed feelings into the patients conscious awareness |
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During psychoanalysis.. |
Patients work thorugh buried feelings and take responsibilty for growth |
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Humanistic Therapy |
Aim to boost self-fulfillment by helping people grow in self-awareness adn self-acceptance |
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Humanisitc thereapy fcouses |
on the present and the figure more than the past adn conscioius rather than the unconscious |
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One foccuses on taking immediate responsibility |
for thier actions in humanistic therpy |
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Where do you have a judge free zone (Client centered therapy) |
Nondirective therapy |
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Nondirective therapy |
Therapists are supposed to exhibit genuinenness acceptance and warmth |
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Applies learning principles to unwanted behaviors |
Behavioral Therapies |
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Behavioral Therapies |
They assume that problem behaviors are the problem and they seek to eliminate them |
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Who doubts the healing power of self-awareness They dont go below looking for the inner cause of a problem |
Behavioral Therapies do!!! |
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In behavioral therapies one.... |
Take maladaptive problems and replace them with construcitve behaviors |
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Cognitive Therapy |
Assumes that our thinking colors our feelings |
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Self-blaming and overgeneralization fo bad events |
Cognitive therapy |
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Cognitive therapist.... |
Try in various ways to teach people new more conostructive ways of thinking |
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Family therapy |
Assumes that no person is an island and that we live and grow in relation to others especially our family |
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Biomedical therapies |
Most often used with serious disorder |
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Only psychiatrists can offer |
Biomedical therapies |
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Only biomedical therapies can offfer |
Antipsychotic drugs, antianxiety, antidepressant and mood stabilizers |
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Social Psychology |
A subfield that attempts to explain how the actual imagined or implied presence of others influence the thoughts feelings adn behaviors of individulars |
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How individual behavior when they are with a group is |
Social psychlogy |
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Social Perception |
The process we use to obtain critically important social information |
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Primacy effect |
When the overall impressions of another is influenced more by information that comes first than information that comes later |
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Attribution |
An assignmnet of a cause to explain one's own behavior |
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Situational attribution |
Attributing a bheavior to some external cause or factor operating within the situation |
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Dispositional attribution |
Attributing a behavior to some internal cause such as a perosn trait, motive or attitude |
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When we explain our own failure what do we use? |
situational attriution |
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When we explain others failures what do we use? |
Dispositional attribution |
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Conformity |
Changing or adopting a behavior or attitude in order to be consistent with social norms of a close group of people or the expectations of people |
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Social norms |
The attitudes and standards of behavior expected of a memeber or a particular group |
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Groupthink |
The tendency for members of a tight nit group to be more concerned with preserving group solidarity and uniformity than objectively evaluating all alternatives in decision making |
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Compliance |
Acting in accordance with the wishes or direct request of others |
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Foot in the door technique |
A strategy design to gain a favorable respponse to a small request at first, with the intent on making the person more likely to agree to a later request |
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What is the opposite of the foot in the door tehnique |
Door in the foot technique |
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Door in the foot technique |
You make an unreasonable lrge request with the expectation someone will refuse but then be more likely to respond to a small request |
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Lowball techniques |
One strategy used ot gain compliance during the foot in the door technique |
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When someone makes a very attractive initial offer to get a perosn to commit to an action and then makes the terms less favorable |
Lowball techniques |
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Social facilitation |
Any postive or negative effect on performance that can be attributed to the presence of others |
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Social loafting |
The tendency to put forth less effort when working with others on a common tasks than working alone |
