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| anemotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties |
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| a psychodynamic approach of treatment that attempts to uncover and resolve people's underlying drives and motives |
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| a psychoanalytic method for making the conflict conscious have the client relax and sy whatever comes to mind without censor or omission |
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| a psychoanalytic method in which the client exhibits exaggerated reactions of love or hatred towards the therapist; emotions that are linked with other relationships |
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| an insight therapy that centers on people's conscious and deliberate decison making abiliites to achieve. It asks what clients want for the future rather than going back to childhood |
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a type of therapy that focuses on the "whole " individual and the person's perceptions of hte self and the surrounding world
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| Systematic Desensitization |
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| a classical conditioning technique which begins with exposing the client to a mild form of fear- arousing situation, often by simple imagining it and then having the client practice relaxing. It is then followed by a progression of fear arousal until the client can confront fear/ phobia and be relaxed |
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| having a client go straight into the fear- provoking situation without all of the progressive steps of systematic desensitization |
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| a technique in which an unpleasant response becomes associated with what would normally be pleasant |
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| a type of therapy that asserts people behave in abnormal ways because of the way they think |
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| a treatment based on the assumption that people's emotions and dependent on their internal cognition. It is the irrational thoughts that lead to unpleasant emotions |
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| the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another |
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| a set of thought processes that are used to assign causes to an individual's own behavior or to the behavior of others |
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| Fundamental attribution error |
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| a bias that occurs when trying to explain the behavior of others, we often overestimate the role of dispostion and underestimate the role of the external environment |
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| our tendency to take credit for our successes and blame our failures on circumstances beyoud our control |
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| a belief and feeling that predisposes one to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events |
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| an unjustified attitude involving a fixed, way of thinking about a person or an object |
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| unfair behaviors towards members of a particular group |
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| a process utilized in an attempt to alter a person's attitude or behavior |
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| a compliance technique that involves getting someone to comply with a small request before asking them to comply with a large request |
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| a compliance technique that involves making a request so big it will be turned down before making a smaller, more reasonable request |
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| a compliance technique that involves getting someone to commit to doing something, and then increase the effort or cost required to fulfill the commitment |
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| the loss of self awareness and self restraint occurring in group situations that forster arousal and anonymity |
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| the tendency for groups to make riskier decisions than an individual would make alone |
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| the tendency for groups to move towards an extreme position |
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| an extreme form of polarization; members of a group suppress their doubts about the group's decision due to fear of disturbing harmony or making a bad impression |
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| the effect that in a group, each person actually does less that he / she would do alone |
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