psych final

- welcome divergent views

-value truth over self interest

-tolerate ambiguity

-accepting change

-emphasize and do not relate things back to oneself

-recognizing own personal biases

scientific study of behavior and mental processes

-Trust vs mistrust (birth to age 1)

-Autonomy vs shame and doubt (1-3)

-Initiative vs guilt (3-6)

-Industry vs inferiority (6-12)

-Identity vs Role Confusion (12-20)

-Intimacy vs Isolation (young adulthood)

-Generativty vs stagnation (middle adulthood)

-Ego integrity vs despair (late adulthood)

treatment of medical disorder by psychological rather than medical means

Freud believes that when one is aware of previously hidden conflicts it releases the tension

it is a group that contains cognitive, humanistic, group, and family therapies.

-they are grouped because they seek to increase insight into clients difficulties.

-during free association, freud notice patients forgetting what they were saying or changing topic. this is showing signs of resistance.

-Therapists need to help patients deal with problems head on and relaistically

a briefer more directive contemporary form of psychoanalysis, which empahsizes conscious problems and current problems

-Empathy

-unconditional positive regard

-genuiness

-active listening

biomedial therapy, using drugs, electroconvulsive tehrapy, and psychosurgery to reduce or alleviate symptoms of psychological disorder

study of drug effects on the mind and behavior

problems reflect cultural values and beliefs

innapropriate conditioning or modeling

exaggerated form of an adaptive reaction

blocked personal growth

unconscious unresolved conflicts

faulty thinking

problems with brain function, genetic predisposition, and biochemistry