Psychology Unit 2

A person’s pattern of thinking, feeling and acting

Founder of psychoanalysis

The neo-Freudians use parts of Freud’s theory to form this perspective

Region of consciousness that is NOT conscious but is easily retrievable

Thoughts, wishes, feelings, & memories which we are unaware of

Our sense of right & wrong in our personality

Mediates between id & superego

Our sense of right & wrong in our personality

These are used by our ego to protect us from the unconscious demands

Pushing horrific experiences deep into memory so you do not remember the event

When you go back to previous behaviors for attention & protection

People disguise threats of your own by pushing them onto others

oral, anal, phallic, latency, & genital

The highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

Central feature of your personality

Characteristics patterns of behavior & motivation

Emotional stability, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, coscientousness

A questionnaire to assess feelings and behaviors of a sample

reliabilty

When a test measures what it is supposed to measure

Personality perspective that uses modeling, rewards and environmental influences

a harmful disfunction in a person

a behavior that is destructive to one’s self

A behavior that is without rational basis

A behavior that is troublesome to other people

A behavior that violates a social norms or a culture

Psychological disorder that is linked to specific biological problems & symptoms

3 factors that interact to produce psychological disorders

The book used to classify psychological disorders

Anxiety disorder marked by persistent, unexplained feelings of apprehension & tension

Psychological disorder that has symptoms of unwanted repetitive thoughts

Anxiety disorder marked by intense and unexplained panic

Anxiety disorder that show irrational fears of objects or situations

Disorder where there are states of over-excitement and complete helplessness

Causes of mood disorder according to social cognitive theory

disorder where the sense of self may exhibit separate states

Loss of memory due to a traumatic even

When a person has 2 or more distinct personalities

When there are no physical causes of a sickness but someone is sick and suffering

Psychological disorders where symptoms take a bodily form w/o a physical cause

Disorders that show delusional thinking & disturbed perception

Disorders that show delusional thinking & disturbed perception

False beliefs that schizophrenics experience

Unrelated words & phrases that schizophrenics use

Type of schizophrenia that has delusions of grandeur and persecution

A schizophrenic that cannot be labeled paranoid, catatonic or disorganized

Patterns of behavior that harm social functioning

Someone who is unable to form social relationships

Personality disorder characterized by a lack of guilt feelings

Interactions between a therapist & someone suffering from a psychological difficulty

Using various forms of therapy

Feature of client-centered therapy

Behavior therapy uses these 2 types of conditioning

Trying to associate a relaxed state to something that creates high anxiety

Giving alcoholics a nausea-inducing drink is an example of aversive conditioning

Changing the way that you see the world and creating an alternate reaction to negative emotions

Group therapy is more beneficial for people who have…

The type of therapists that can prescribe medications

Therapy type that helps the most to treat depression