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Ch. 9-13

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An automatic biological unfolding of development in an organism as a function of the passage of time. Zygote and fertilization   show
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show Embryo  
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show Fetus  
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(qualitatively unique stages of cognitive development). Most influential theorist in the area of cognitive development was the Swiss psychologist. He observed and studied children and as a result of his observations, he believed that cognitive developme   show
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Stage of cognitive development between birth and 2 years of age in which the individual develops object permanence ( an awareness that objects continue to exist even when out of sight) and acquires the ability to form mental representations (form objects   show
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Egocentric, illogical, nonconserving, irreversibility. Stage of cognitive development between 2 and 7 years of age in which the individual becomes able to use mental representations and language to describe, remember, and reason about the world, though o   show
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show Concrete Operations  
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show Formal Operations  
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show Erick Erikson  
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Important fundamental source of personality. In the end it’s all about trust, the way we view the world, perception of reality is based on trust. Trust is the faith in the predictability of the environment, optimism about the future. Mistrust is suspic   show
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-Autonomy refers to your independence, ability to gain control over bodily function and coordination (learning to walk). Shame and doubt is hostile rejection of all controls, self-doubt about ability to control body. Period where to learn to control thi   show
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show Initiative vs. Guilt (3-6 years)  
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This stage is important to development and is the school years. Industry is learning the skills of personal care, productive work and independent living. Inferiority is the failure to learn these skills that leads to, feelings of mediocrity, inadequacy,   show
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Gets a little complex and what Erikson is most famous for. Identity is the integration of one’s roles in life into a coherent pattern. Role confusion is the failure to integrate these roles leads to a lack of personal identity and despair. Begin to see   show
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show Intimacy vs. Isolation (Early Adulthood)  
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show Generativity vs. Stagnation (Middle Adulthood)  
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show Integrity vs. Despair (Late Adulthood)  
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An individual’s unique patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that persists over time and across situations.   show
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personality is the result of unconscious motivations and conflicts. Unconscious means motives and conflicts that ultimately drive the behavior that aren’t necessarily available, are not aware.   show
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show Sigmund Freud  
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show -Freud’s Structure of Personality  
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show ID  
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A form of psychic energy; the energy generated by the sexual drive. We have two driving forces in our biology; one is to survive and the other is to die. Personality is the basic aversion to the inevitable (death).   show
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the way the id seeks immediate gratification of an instinct.   show
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Operates at all 3 levels, The part of the personality that mediates between the demands of reality, the id, and superego.   show
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show Reality Principle:  
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show The (Ego) Defense Mechanisms  
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show Repression  
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show Denial  
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: blame somebody else for a problem, project anger on someone else.   show
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Expression of exaggerated ideas and emotions that are the opposite of one’s repressed beliefs or feelings.   show
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Reverting to childlike behavior and defenses.   show
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Instead of putting the blame on someone else, you project your anger on a thing or object.   show
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personality inventories, written tests that are administered and scored according to a standard procedure.   show
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. The most widely used objective personality test, originally intended for psychiatric diagnosis.   show
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show Hypochondriasis  
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Unhappiness, loss of energy, pessimism, lack of self-confidence, hopelessness, feeling of futility.   show
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Reacts to stress with physical symptoms such as blindness or paralysis; lacks insights about motives and feelings.   show
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show Psychopathic deviation  
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Adherence to nontraditional gender traits, or rejection of the typical gender role.   show
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Suspiciousness, particularly in the area of interpersonal relations, guarded, moralistic, and rigid; overly responsive to criticism.   show
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show Psychasthenia  
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show Schizophrenia  
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Elevated mood, accelerated speech, flight of ideas, over activity, energetic, and talkative.   show
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Shy, insecure, and uncomfortable in social situations, timid, reserved, often described by others as cold and distant.   show
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Personality tests, such as the Rorschach inkblot test, consisting of ambiguous or unstructured material.   show
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best known and one of the most frequently used projective tests. Composed of ambiguous inkblots; the way people interpret the blots is thought to reveal aspects of their personality.   show
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Apperception Test. Consists of 20 cards picturing one or more human figures in deliberately ambiguous situations. A person is shown each card one at a time and said to write a story about each picture.   show
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Diagnostic & Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edition) [classification system for mental illness]. A publication of the American Psychiatric Association that classifies over 230 psychological disorders into 16 categories.   show
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show Anxiety Disorder  
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An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent panic attacks.   show
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an anxiety disorder characterized by prolonged vague but intense fears that are not attached to any particular object or circumstance.   show
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sudden, unpredictable, and overwhelming experience of intense fear or terror without any reasonable cause. Were previously known as “anxiety attacks.”   show
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: An anxiety disorder is which a person feels driven to think disturbing thoughts (obsessions) and/or to perform senseless rituals (compulsions). -Obsession refers to thought. -Compulsion refers to behavior.   show
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Retreat from reality.” Severe disorder that are primarily characterized by a “retreat from reality.” Schizophrenia often involves disturbances of thoughts, communications, and emotions, including delusions and hallucinations.   show
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bizarre and childlike behaviors are common. Sometimes it starts early childhood but most commonly it starts around our age group.   show
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show Catatonic schizophrenia  
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show Paranoid schizophrenia  
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There are clear schizophrenic symptoms that do not meet the criteria for another subtype of the disorder. Can’t really distinguish.   show
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show Paranoia  
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paralyzing fear of some object or thing.   show
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excessive, inappropriate fears connected with social situations or performances in front of other people.   show
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Disturbances in mood or prolonged emotional state. Most psychologists now believe that mood disorders result from a combination of biological factors (genetics and chemical imbalances in the brain), psychological factors and social factors.   show
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: A mood disorder characterized by overwhelming feelings of sadness, lack of interest in activities, perhaps excessive guilt or feelings of worthlessness, feelings of guilty, anxiousness and nervousness. Difficulty sleeping and/or weight issues.   show
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Disorders in which some aspect of the personality seems separated form the rest.   show
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show Amnesia  
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overly concerned about health. A somatoform disorder in which a person interprets insignificant symptoms as signs of serious illness in the absence of any organic evidence of such illness.   show
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show Conversion disorders  
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(ECT) Used to treat organic mental illnesses that are biologically caused.   show
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show Psychopharmacological therapies  
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show Lithium  
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false beliefs about reality that have no basis in fact.   show
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show Precipitating and predisposing  
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: Notion that your genes combined with childhood experiences leads to schizophrenia (two causes). View that people biologically predisposed to a mental disorder (those with a certain diathesis) will tend to exhibit that disorder when particularly affect   show
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a person, as a psychopathic personality, whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.   show
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