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Psychological needs or desires that energize or direct behavior |
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Innate, unlearned biological pattern of behavior that is assumed to be universal throughout a species |
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Something in the environment that turns on a fixed pattern of behavior |
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A psychological need creates a drive that motivates organisms to seek and satisfy the need |
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Equilibrium
(maintaining a balanced or constant state) |
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Performance is best under conditions of moderate arousal rather than low or high arousal |
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Learning to perform a task so well that it becomes automatic |
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Physiological needs
safety
love and belongingness
esteem
sef-actualization |
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Maslow's Hierarchy of needs |
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Competence- able to bring about desired outcomes
relatedness- need to engage in warm relations with others
autonomy- the sense that we are in control of our own life |
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self determination theory |
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People are motivated by internal goals |
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People are motivated by external goals |
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Conscious evaluative reaction to some event |
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Feeling state, not clearly linked to some event |
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Automatic response; good-bad dimension |
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hypothesis that people judge something as good or bad by asking themselves "how do I feel about it?" |
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Affect-as-information hypothesis |
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people are fairly accurate at predicting which emotions they would feel but overestimate how long they would feel that way |
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Primary emotions combine to form secondary emotions
Ex: "alarm"=fear+surprise |
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How are primary and secondary emotions correlated? |
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unpleasant moral emotion associated with a specific instance in which one has acted badly or wrongly |
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moral emotion that, like guilt, involves feeling bad but, unlike guilt, spreads to the whole person |
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How and when to display emotion
factors:
cultural differences
power differences
gender differences |
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Display rules and factors that shape them |
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People mistake what is causing them to feel aroused |
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Misattribution of arousal |
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Why was the two-factor (Shacter-Singer) theory of emotion correct compared to the other two? |
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It identifies two factors: stimulus and emotion |
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Scientific study of mental and psychological disorders |
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Distress
Dysfunction/impairment
Statistical deviance |
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Steps to tell whether a behavior is psychologically disordered |
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Biological approach- organic, internal causes
Psychological approach-experiences, thoughts, emotions
Sociocultural approach- social context in which person lives |
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Disorder onset results from a combination of one's biological predisposition+stressful life events |
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deficits in social communication
restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior
present in early development |
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Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder |
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Persistent anxiety for at least six months, and in which the individual is unable to specify the reasons for the anxiety
(disorder) |
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Generalized anxiety disorder |
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Recurrent, sudden onsets of intense terror, often without warning and with no specific cause
(disorder) |
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Irrational, overwhelming, persistent fear of a particular object or situation
(disorder) |
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An intense fear of being humiliated or embarrassed in social situations
(disorder) |
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Recurrent and persistent distress-causing thoughts
repetitive behaviors driven by obsession
(Disorder) |
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Exposure to a traumatic event that has overwhelmed the person's ability to cope
re-experiences trauma through triggers
(disorder) |
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Depressive episodes
Major changes in sleep patterns, weight level, and a loss of interest in pleasurable activities
(disorder) |
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Major depressive disorder |
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Learned helplessness
depressogenic attributions |
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Explanation for major depressive disorder |
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Alternating between depression and mania
Manic episodes
goes between depression and euphoria |
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Types of depressogenic attributions |
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Extreme memory loss that stems from extensive psychological stress
(disorder) |
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Having two or more distinct personalities or identities |
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Dissociative identity disorder |
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Severe disorder of thought and emotion associated with a loss of contact with reality
Delusions
Hallucinations
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A nonmedical process that helps individuals with psychological disorders recognize and overcome their problems |
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Causes of abnormal behaviors stem from traumatic or adverse childhood experiences
Analyzes avoided thoughts and feelings, wishes and fantasies, and significant past events
(therapy) |
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Therapy that shares and emphasis on
development of human potential
belief that human nature is basically positive
Stresses importance of assuming responsibility for our lives and living in the present |
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Nondirective self-exploration
Warm, supportive atmosphere
unconditional positive regard, recognizes value of client
empathy
genuineness
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Maladaptive behaviors must be directly confronted
merely increasing self-awareness is not enough
(therapy) |
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Carefully controlled, gradual exposure to anxiety-provoking stimuli |
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Systematic desensitization
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Creating an aversive response where the absence of one is causing problems |
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exposing the patient directly to their worst fears |
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Our cognitive assessment of events is often the source of our distress (thoughts)
(therapy) |
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Irrational and self-deflating beliefs
eliminate these beliefs through rational examination
directive, persuasive, confrontational
(therapy) |
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Ellis' rational-emotive therapy |
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Illogical automatic negative thoughts
identify and challenge automatic thoughts
reflective, open-ended dialogue, less directive
(therapy) |
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Explores problematic patterns of both thinking and behaving
purges irrational negative thinking
behave in mood-incongruent ways
(therapy) |
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Cognitive behavior therapy |
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Drug therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy
Psychosurgery
What type of therapies are these? |
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Group therapies
Family and couples therapies
strategic family interventions
structural family therapy
What kind of therapy are these? |
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Therapy designed to remove barriers to effective communication
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Strategic family interventions |
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Has therapist immerse themselves in the family to make changes |
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Structural family therapy |
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Hope for demoralized people
New perspective
A healthy relationship |
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Benefits of psychotherapy |
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A psychological state that deems acts as immoral or wrong
motivates punishment toward the guilty individual
can be turned off and on |
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When it comes to morality, people don't use moral _____ but moral _______ |
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reasoning, rationalization |
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unpleasant moral emotion associated with a specific instance in which one has acted badly or wrongly |
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Two major emotions regarding morality |
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Past moral behavior makes people more likely to do potentially immoral things without worrying about feeling or appearing immoral |
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Reframes immoral behavior as not a transgression
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Good deeds establish that one has the right to do bad deeds |
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Harm
Fairness
Liberty
Group Loyalty
Authority
Purity |
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