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What is personality
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an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting
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what's personality measured by?
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Personality Inventory (questionaire) MMPI, Neo PI R, TAT
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Explain Psychoanalytic
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freud based off patients (wealthy women, sex probs)
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Id
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basic desires (devil
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ego
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balance id and superego
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Superego
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angel on shoulder
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Displacement
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want to yell at boss but instead yell at spouse
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sublimation
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freud said healthiest, don't hit people, go work out instead
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Projection
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Hate roommate, so assumed hate you
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Probs with Psychoanalytic
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only developed from rich, crazies, isn't testable
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Explain Humanistic
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(Maslow & Rogers) (based on healthy people) Everybody love everybody
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maslows hierarchy
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no real support, need to meet basic needs before higher needs
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self-actualization
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reaching fullest potential
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rogers thought we need what for good relationships
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genuine accepting empathetic
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Probs with Humanistic
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too optimistic, hard to measure gains, don't always fit between other cultures
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Explain Trait Theory
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traits are relatively stable and enduring, tendencies to behave in particular ways
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Big 5 info
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a lot of research support, each trait has genetic component, good cross-cultural evidence, over life -- people don't really change
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Problems with Trait Theory
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good @ describing differences but no good explanation why these explain personality, it ignores power of situation
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Explain Social Cognitive
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(Bandura) Environment influences behavior & way we think about others. It considers the situation
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What is reciprocal determinism
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interaction between person & environment
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Cognitive factors
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if you believe you are in control or get control
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Internal locus
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you control
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external locus
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you get controlled
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self efficacy
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do you believe you're capable (high = keep going and powering thru)
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better than average effect
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on attributes, abilities most people think better than they really are
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Probs with Social Cognitive
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doesn't weigh personality heavily enough (more environment)
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Repression
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if can't beat them, join them (kids want moms)
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Comorbidity
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more than one diagnosis at once (60% of the 50% have this)
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3 D's of Ab. Psych
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Deviant, distressful, dysfunctional
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Biological view of Pysch dis.
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genetics, brain structure abnormalities
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psychological view of psych dis
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thinking styles, social skills, personality
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socio-cultural view of psych dis
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peer groups, expectations, cultural norms
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Diathesis stress model
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everyone has a predisposition to develop disorder (genetics, brain structure
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Why classify?
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Order, grouping like with like
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Why diagnose?
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predict course (help know what's going on), inform treatment
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Pros with diagnosis
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provides universal nomenclature, good descriptions and readily identify treatment
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Cons with diagnosis
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adolescent mood swims now bipolar, "fake patients" found by real patients before therapists
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OCD - describe what kind of disorder?
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obtrusive, unwanted mental stimuli, pattern becomes time consuming & exhausting
Anxiety dis |
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Panic- describe what kind of disorder?
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need 4 of 13 symptoms. bad diagnostic reliability. w/ or w/out agoraphobia
Anxiety dis |
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Anxiety sensitivity
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fear own bodily sensations assoc with anxiety k
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PTSD
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onset following traumatic experience. Persistent re-experience (Ex: nightmares, flashbacks)
Anxiety dis |
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Mood disorders
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extremes of emotinos. many theories-biological environmental, cognitive. Behavioral inhibition - loses enjoyment
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Major depressive dis - describe what kind of disorder?
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common cold of psychopath. We all have @ times. have symptoms about 2 weeks
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Bipolar Dis
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opposing emotional extremes, Type 1 - full blown manic, Type 2, not full blown
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Dysthymic Dis
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chronic baseline depressed mood
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Cyclothymic
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watered down bipolar disorder
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Schizophrenia - describe what kind of disorder?
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split mind w reality, common confused w DID (mood Dis)
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DID - describe what kind of disorder?
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alteration of consciousness (mood dis) 2 or more personalities
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Personality disorders - describe clusters
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Cluster A - odd eccentric, Paranoid Schizoid
Cluster B dramatic emotional, Antisocial, narcissistic Cluster C - fearful, anxious, avoidant dependent |
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Somatoform Dis
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(cole dis) person experiences physical prob (ulcer) but no real problem
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Conversion Dis
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motor or sensory problem (somatoform)
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Hypochondriasis
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preoccupation with body symptoms that aren't there
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body dysmorphic dis
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preoccupied with physical "defect"
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Causes of Anxiety Dis
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Biological - genetic predisposition, abnormalities in certain brain regions, evolutionary
Psych - avoidance = O.C. learned to avoid things, disconfirming evidence = learn that riding bike isn't scary w/ out this evidence |
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Causes of Schizo
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biological - genetically based, chronic excessive dopamine
Psych- abnormal thought pattern, social isolation as children |
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Causes of Mood Disorders
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bio- gentics, low seratonin
enviro - 80% of first onset caused by this Cognitive - locus of control, |
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List all Anxiety disorders (4)
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OCD, PTSD, General Anxiety DIs, Panic Disorder
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List all Mood Disorders (5)
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Major Depressive Dis, Bipolar Dis, Dysthymic Dis, Cyclothymic Dis, Shizophrenia,
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List Dissociative Disorders (1)
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DID
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Personality Disorders (3)
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3 clusters: A B C
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List Somatoform Disorders (3)
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Conversion Dis, hypchondriasis, body dysmorphic dis,
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List general categories of therapy (5)
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Psychoanalysis, humanistic, behavioristic, cognitive, biomedical
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attribution theory
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explain someone's behavior by crediting either situation or person's disposition
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fundamental attribution error
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underestimate the situation and overestimate the personal disposition
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dispositional attribution
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putting blame on the person
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situational attribution
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power of situation
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what has low levels of serotonin and norepinephrine
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depression
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