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Flashcards by shelby satine, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| regression | relating to more infantile psychosexual stage |
| repression | defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-aroused thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness |
| oedipus complex | (Freud) a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father |
| id | "devil on your shoulder"; reservoir of psychic energy that strives to satisfy drives |
| ego | "the mediator"; largely conscious personality that mediates among the id and superego |
| superego | "angel on your shoulder"; represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and future aspirations |
| phallic stage | one of Freud's psychosexual stages, which is focused on genitals and coping with incestuous feelings |
| unconditional positive regard | Rogers' approach to the way therapists should regard their patients (always positive, friendly) |
| conscientiousness | a spectrum of the "Big Five" personality factors, in which one pole is characterized by disorganization, carelessness, impulses, and the opposite by organization, carefulness, discipline |
| self-efficacy | one's perception of their ability, competence, and efficiency |
| self-serving bias | tendency to attribute positive events to their character but dismiss negative events as external factors |
| unconscious | unacceptable feelings and impulses that we aren't aware of |
| introversion | energized by alone time |
| extraversion | energized by socializing |
| trait | an enduring quality that makes a person tend to act a certain way |
| personality | individual's characteristic of thinking and feeling |
| free association | method of exploring the unconscious in which the patient relaxes and says whatever comes to mind |
| social cognitive perspective | behavior influenced by the interaction between peoples' traits and social context |
| schizophrenia | psychological disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized speech, inappropriate emotional expression |
| major depressive disorder | disorder characterized by a two week or longer period of either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure |
| narcissism | disorder characterized by excessive self-love and self-absorption |
| phobia | irrational and intense desire to avoid a situation or object |
| binge-eating disorder | disorder characterized by significant binge-eating (excessive) episodes followed by distress, disgust, or guilt |
| anorexia nervosa | disorder characterized by maintaining a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight |
| borderline personality disorder | disorder characterized by drastic mood changes, need for attention, impulsivity, and insecurity |
| panic attack | symptom characterized by intense fear, sweating, and difficulty breathing |
| bipolar disorder | disorder characterized by an alternation between hopelessness, lethargy, and depression, and the overexcited state of mania |
| post-traumatic stress disorder | disorder from trauma characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and insomnia |
| generalized anxiety disorder | disorder characterized by being continually tense |
| obsessive compulsive disorder | disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and actions (compulsions) |
| dissociative fugue | occurs when a person experiences a stressful traumatic event, then drastically changes personality, having no memory of their past life |
| DSM-5 | book used to classify psychological disorders |
| obsession | intense, unwanted worries, ideas, and images |
| compulsions | strong feeling of needing to carry out an action, even if it doesn't make sense |
| psychological disorder | dysfunction of behavior |
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