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What is extinction in operant conditioning?
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The elimination of a behavior with discontinuation of reinforcement
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What is transference?
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The projections of a patient's feelings about formative persons (e.g. parents) onto the psychiatrist
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What is countertransference?
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The projection of the psychiatrist's feelings about formative persons onto the patient
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What is dissociation?
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an immature ego defense
temporary extreme changes in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress |
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What is displacement?
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an immature ego defense
avoided ideas and feelings are transferred to some neutral person or object (kicking the dog because of stress at work) |
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What is projection?
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an immature ego defense
unacceptable internal impulses are attributed to an external source (the doctor I don't want to admit I'm attracted to is obsessed with me!) |
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What is fixation?
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an immature ego defense
partially remaining at a more childish level of development |
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What is identification?
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an immature ego defense
the modeling of behavior after someone who is more powerful (whether or not there is admiration for them) |
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What is isolation of affect?
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an immature ego defense
separation feelings from ideas and events (describing something horrible in a clinical way without emotion) |
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What is reaction formation?
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an immature ego defense
a warded-off idea or emotion is replaced by an unconscious fixation on its opposite (e.g. a pedophile becomes a chaste priest) |
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What is splitting? When is it seen?
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an immature ego defense
A discomfort with ambiguity and belief that people are either totally good or totally bad at different times (stereotypes, black-and-white thinking) seen in borderline personality disorder |
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What is suppression compared to repression?
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suppression is mature, repression is immature
suppression is voluntary withholding of ideas from consciousness, repression in involuntary |
