Psychology Ch 12-16

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JAMES-LANGE THEORY

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your interpretation of a stimulus directly evokes autonomic changes and sometimes muscle actions. Your perception of those changes is the feeling aspect of the emotion

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SCHACHTER AND SINGER'S THEORY OF EMOTIONS

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the intensity of the physiological state- that is, the degree of sympathetic nervous system arousal, determines the intensity of the emotion, but a cognitive appraisal of the situation identifies the type of emotion

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DUCHENNE SMILE

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the full expression including the muscles around the eyes

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TYPE A PERSONALITY

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highly competitive, they believe that they must always win. impatient, always in a hurry, and often angry and hostile

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TYPE B PERSONALITY

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are relatively easygoing less hurried and less hostile

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ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOR

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accepting some cost or risk to help others

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PRISONER'S DILEMMA

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a situation where people choose between a cooperative act and a competitive act that benefits themselves but hurts others

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IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST

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measures your reactions to combinations of two categories, such as flower and pleasant.

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ATTRIBUTION

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the set of thought processes we use to assign causes to our own behavior and that of others

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ACTOR-OBSERVER EFFECT

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peoplel are more likely to make internal attributions for other people's behavior and more likely to make external attributions for their own

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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE

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a state of unpleasant tension that people experience when they hold contradictory attitudes or when their behavior is inconsistent with their attitudes, especially if they are distressed about the inconsistency

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SLEEPER EFFECT

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delayed persuasion by an initially rejected message

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FORE-WARNING EFFECT

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simply informing people that they are about to hear a persuasive speech activates their resistance and weakens the effect of the persuasion

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PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY

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relates personality to the interplay of conflicting forces within the individual, including unconscious ones

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CATHARSIS

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a release of pent-up emotional tension

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OEDIPUS COMPLEX

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when he developes a sexual interest in his mother and comopetitive agression toward his father

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ID

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all our biological drives, such as sex and hunger

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EGO

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the rational, decision-making aspect of the personality

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SUPEREGO

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the memory of rules and prohibitions we learned from our parents and the rest of society

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DEFENSE MECHANISMS

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the ego defends itself against conflicts and anxieties by relegating unpleasant thoughts and impulses to the unconscious

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RATIONALIZATION

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attempt to prove that their actions are rational and justifiable and thus worthy of approval

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DISPLACEMENT

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diverting a behavior or thought away from its natural target

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REACTION FORMATION

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present themselves as the opposite of what they really are to hide the unpleasant truth either from themselves or others

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NEO-FREUDIANS

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remained faithful to parts of freud's theory while modifying other parts

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COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS

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cumulative experience of preceding generations

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ARCHETYPES

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vague images that we inherited from the experiences of our ancestors

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BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS

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neuroticism
extraversion
agreeableness
conscientiousness
openness to new experience

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BARNUM EFFECT

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tendency to accept vague descriptions of our personality

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MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY

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true-false questions intended to measure certain personality dimensions and clinical conditions such as depression

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EMOTIONAL STROOP TEST

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someone examines a list of words, some of which relate to a possible source of worry or concern, and tries to say the color of the ink of each word

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DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER
(DID)
MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER

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someone alternates among two or more distinct personalities

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DSM IV

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sets specific criteria for each psychological diagnosis

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TARASOFF CASE

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a therapist who has reason to believe that a client is dangerous must break the pledge of confidentiality and warn the endangered person

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MCNAGHTEN RULE

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to be regarded as insane, people must be so disordered that they dont understand what theyre doing

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TRICYCLIC DRUGS

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block the reabsorption of the neurotransmitters dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin after they are released by an axon's terminal

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MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITORS
MAOIS

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block the metabolic breakdown of released dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin

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ATYPICAL ANTIDEPRESSANTS

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are about as effective, on theaverage, as other antidepressants and produce milder side effects

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CATATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA

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prominent movement disorder, including either rigid inactivity or excessive activity

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DISORGANIZED SCHIZOPHRENIA

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incoherent speech, absence of social relationships, and sill or odd behavior

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PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA

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elaborate hallucinations and delusions especially delusions of persecution and delusions of grandeur

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UNDIFFERENTIATED SCHIZOPHRENIA

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basic symptoms- deterioration of daily functioning plus some combination of hallucinations, delusions, inappropriate emotions, thought disorders, and so forth

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RESIDUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA

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people who have had an episode of schizophrenia and who are partly recovered