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21 Cards in this Set
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Definition of Psychology |
Study of behaviors and mental processes |
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Four Goals of Psychology |
1. Describe 2. Explain 3. Predict 4. Control |
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Describe |
Situation (Observe +Identify) What are we dealing with? |
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Explain |
Causes Why? What Causes? |
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Predict |
What's going to happen down the road? What variables contribute? |
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Control |
Intervention -humanistic |
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6 Major perspectives of Psychology |
1. Biological 2. Cognitive 3. Behavioral 4. Psychoanalytic 5. Humanistic 6. Sociocultural |
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Freud's Contributions |
Unconscious Childhood experience Talk treatment Humans 'essentially conflicted' |
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Freud's Model of the mind |
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Id |
Responsible for drives to meet physiological needs and desires -Unconscious -Child -Demon |
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Superego |
Rules and morals of society -Conscious and unconscious -Rule bound parent -Angel |
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Ego |
Mediates and allows needs to be met in socially acceptable fashion -"Prime" conscious |
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Freud's 7 Defense mechanisms |
Denial Regression Compartmentalization Projection Repression Displacement Rationalization |
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Denial |
Refusing to acknowledge or accept external reality. |
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Regression |
Temporary reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of development -Turns into a child because they don't want to be an adult. |
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Compartmentalization |
Separates incompatible thoughts, and inhibits direct acknowledgement of one another |
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Projection |
Allows expression of impulses without becoming consciously aware of them |
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Repression |
Excluding a desire from consciousness and pushing it into the unconscious -Memory lapse |
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Displacement |
Separation of emotion from the actual target and redirecting it towards something less harmful to prevent dealing directly with the threat. |
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Rationalization |
Convincing the self that no wrong has been done -Using false reasoning -Making excuses |
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Freud's Therapeutic Techniques |
Free association Dream interpretation Freudian slips Hypnosis |
