General Psychology Test #2

Significant disturbance in a person's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior

Episode of intense dread

jJst eleviates symptoms with medication (ignores cognition and thinks everything is biological)

by experience (nurture)

In order of diagnosis

continued anxiety or disordered anxiety-reducing behavior

Someone who becomes very anxious in social settings and thinks they are being judged

continually tense anxious and in a state of arousal

Anxiety suddenly escalates into a panic attack

Unwanted repetitive behavior

Nightmares and anxiety triggered by past trama

distressing physical symptoms without apparent cause

development of physical symptoms that are not under voluntary control

The future

Past/present

2 weeks or more

depressive symptoms for 2 years or more

A person rotates between hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the over excited state of mania

A hyperactive optimistic state

Experiences more extreem mood swings

Lesser symptoms (hypomania)

A hyperactive optimistic state

Stress events occur-ruminating thoughtscreated-hopeless depressed state-hampers the way someone acts (cycles through all of them)

Western-personal desires/identity

Eastern-focus on family and contribution to society

Views human behavior as interactions between conscious unconscious mind

Theraputic technique of psychoanalitic theory

Id, ego, superego

Deep unconscious (pleasure seeking)

Partly conscious (reality principle)

Conscious internalization

Ways to reduce anxiety (subconscious and indirect)

Banishes anxiety and promotes thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness

Split from reality ("split mind")

delusions, hallucinations, disordered speech, inappropriate emotional expression

Toneless voice, expressionless face, flat, rigid

gradually after a long history of social inability

delusions (but not hallucinations), possible breaks from reality (age 16-30), recovery is doubtful

Life stressors but is recoverable (with drug help)

Conscious thought becomes separated from memories/thoughts/feelings

Two or more personalities in one body

Decides not to eat (body dismorphia)

decides to eat, but throws up (body dismorphia)

Binge eating followed by high remorse

Prescribes medication

helps with clinical counciling and social development

Psychiatry, psychology, counciling/social work, psychotherapy, biomedical, eclectic

Working one on one to change behaviors, cognition and self esteem

Combining different theory of counciling adjusted to a person's problems

Face to face therapy every week

Underlying emotion (making unconscious conscious)

Client says aloud everything that comes to mind

Blocking of awareness

A guess that stops at a comfortable level, but therapist tells them to keep going

Client projects feelings onto therapist (tells therapist things like "I know you are mad")

Changes thoughts and makes peace with acceptance and change (helps with trauma)

Therapist creates an accepting/encouraging environment

Helps people see problems and learn from others other ways to behave

uses family as a system in which each person's actions effect others (looks at roles like parent/adult/child)

Internal family system

Every part of you is part of a family (subparts of personality)

One part is chosen over the self

over three months

Depression, anxiety, insomnia, and PTSD

Specific problems (like phobias, compulsions, marital difficulties, sexual disfunction)

depression, anxiety, self-esteem, and relationship problems

Emotional bond between therapist and client

Carl Rogers

Gets in touch with feelings (insight therapy)

Promotes growth rather than illness, focuses on present/future and not past, focus on conscious feelings, taking responsibility for self

Finds ways to make life better

Total acceptance even of bad things

applying new responses to old triggers

Teaching new ways of aproaching events, gentle questions to help people discover irrational thought

our behavior

Founders of psychodynamic theory

Basic ideas of personality, importance of unconscious, personality is shaped in childhood, dynamics of anxiety and defense mechanisms

Harry S. Sulivan

Satisfaction and security (satisfaction-sleep/food/sex security-feeling cared for/look at social norms)

Mental illness

Edward Teyber, Lorna S. Benjamin

Writing books on interpersonal theories

Edward Teyber

Defenses to minimize stress/hurt

Borderline, dependant, passive agressive, masochistic, narcistic, histrionic

Wants to be protected/cared for, fears being abantoned-allicits protection/care

Abandonment or chaotic environments as a child

Wants to be guided/controled/protected, fears autonomy/independance ("I can't do it")-allicits guidence/ control from others

Excessive parental nurturance

Are passive agressive and wish for nurturance

Excelent parental nurturance, but then removed (like when an only child gets a younger sibling)

Wants care and uses self-blame/harm to coerce care

physical symptoms that are activated/created by the mind

Wants others to desire/affirm/submit to them and fears blameeing controlled (has shame, but covers it up)

Constant praise and harsh constant disapointment in failures shown by parents

Solves all problems by relationships because all problems come from relationships

wants love/attention and uses humor to get it (like prof. Stueve)

Got a lot of praise and attention for entertainment value (gains attention because of comedy)