Psych 001 Week 2 Abnormal Psychology

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Joshua Wee
10/11/15
Professor Salonga
PSYCH 001

1. Anxiety disorder is a mental illness. People with this order have a continuous fear or worry.
An example of this disorder that was portrayed in the video we watched was Walter he was a patient of Dr.Weston. Walter has anxiety disorder he can’t sleep and he is always checking his watch like he has somewhere to be.

2. Oliver uses the defense mechanism, self disclosure.

3. Oliver had the least emotional intelligence, Walter had the second least and the one with the most emotional intelligence was Mia the lawyer.

4. Archetypes are different personalities people might have. It is basically a summary of if you are a male or female, your past and present, or are you introverted or extroverted
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Mia is an Athena Archetype because she is self made she has mind of her own she wants to be the boss.

5a. Maslow Hierarchy is basically these 5 stages that we humans need to portray and complete our needs in our life span. They are Physiological needs which is are necessity for life, safety, love, self esteem, and lastly self actualization needs.

5b. I wanna say I am at esteem because I am determining what i want to become in life. I am trying to gain respect by others by simpling getting my education and staying in school.

5c.Walter is definitely almost done he is at stage 5 because how sucessful he has became and how well known he is is definitely passed esteem.

6a.The cortex is wrinkled because it has to include gray matter. Gray matter collects the neuron cell bodies.
6b. The significance of the gyri and sulcus is that it creates a fold that maximizes the amount of cerebral cortex to be able to fit in a human skull.

7. Cytoarchitecture is the study of cells in tissue and their objective in different parts of the brain. This ties into understanding the cortex because the cortex has many different areas that help us humans function.

Work Cited
Being Human. Dir. Robert M. Sapolsky. Teaching Co., 2012.

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