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Introduction to Major Perspectives

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William James’s elements of psych

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  • why - deals with things like evolution, env, and culture
  • how - deals with things like cognition, behaviour, and subconscious
  • what - deals with sensations, emotions, thoughts, perceptions, and actions
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integrative psychology

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introduced by Evan Thompson to combine the nature and actions of mind, body, and spirit

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biological psychology

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  • interested in measuring biological, physiological, or genetic variables in an attempt to relate them to psychological or behavioural variables
  • seeks to understand how the brain functions to understand behaviour
  • rooted in structuralist and functionalist studies
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autoethnography

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a narrative approach to introspective analysis

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James Angells

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one of James’s students, captured functionalist perspectives that consider mental life and behaviour in terms of active adaptation to the person’s env

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reductionist

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the simple is the source of the complex; to explain a complex phenomenon, a person needs to reduce it to its elements

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holist

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the whole is more than the sum of its parts

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the 4 lobes of the brain

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  • frontal lobe (motor cortex)
  • occipital lobe (visual cortex)
  • parietal lobe (somatosensory cortex)
  • temporal lobe (auditory cortex)
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frontal lobe

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involved in motor skills, higher-level cognition, and expressive language

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occipital lobe

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involved in interpreting visual stimuli and info

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parietal lobe

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involved in the processing of other tactile sensory info such as pressure, touch, and pain

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temporal lobe

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involved in the interpretation of sounds and language

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2 parts of the peripheral nervous system

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  • somatic nervous system
  • autonomic nervous system
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somatic nervous system

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controls the actions of skeletal muscles

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autonomic nervous system

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regulates automatic processes like heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, has two parts

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2 parts of the ANS

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  • sympathetic NS
  • parasympathetic NS
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sympathetic NS

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controls fight-or-flight response

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parasympathetic NS

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works to bring the body back to its normal state after a fight-or-flight response

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fight-or-flight

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a reflex that prepares the body to respond to danger in the env

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visual attention

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brain’s ability to selectively filter unattended or unwanted info from reaching awareness

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consciousness

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awareness of the self in space and time

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2 types of conscious experiences

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  • phenomenal - in the moment
  • access - recalls experiences from memory
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Freud’s 3 levels of human consciousness / parts of personality

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  • conscious (ego)
  • preconscious (superego)
  • unconscious (id)
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conscious (ego)

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consists of all the things we’re aware of, including things we know about ourselves and our surroundings

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preconscious (superego)

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consists of those things we could pay conscious attention to if we desired and where many memories are stored

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unconscious (id)

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consists of the things that are outside of conscious awareness, including many memories, thoughts, and urges

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active imagination (Jung)

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refers to activating our imaginal processes in waking life in order to tap into the unconscious meanings of our symbols

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archetypes (Jung)

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primordial images reflect basic patterns or universal themes common to us and are present in the unconscious, images existing outside space and time

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anima (Jung)

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archetype symbolizing the unconscious female component of the male psyche (tendencies or qualities often thought of as feminine)

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animus (Jung)

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archetype symbolizing the unconscious male component of the female psyche (tendencies or qualities often thought of as masculine)

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self (Jung)

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archetype symbolizing the totality of the personality (represents the strive for unity, wholeness, and integration)

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persona (Jung)

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mask or image a person presents to the world (designed to make a particular impression on others while concealing true nature)

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shadow (Jung)

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side of a personality that a person doesn’t consciously display in public (may have positive or negative qualities)

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dreams (Jung)

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specific expressions of the unconscious that have a definite, purposeful structure indicating an underlying idea or intention (general function being to restore a person’s total psychic equilibrium)

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complexes (Jung)

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usually unconscious and repressed emotionally toned symbolic material that’s incompatible with consciousness (can cause constant psychological disturbances and symptoms of neurosis)

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individuation (Jung)

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goal of life is this process of integrating the conscious with the unconscious, synergizing the many components of the psyche

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mystery (Jung)

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life is a great mystery and humans understand little of it

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mandala (Jung)

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symbol of wholeness, completeness, and perfection, symbolizing the self

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neurosis (Jung)

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what passed for normality is often the force that shattered the personality, trying to be ‘normal’ violates a person’s inner nature and is a form of pathology

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story (Jung)

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every person has a story and when derangement occurs, it’s bc the personal story was denied or rejected, healing and integration come when a person rediscovers their story

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symbol (Jung)

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name, term, or picture that’s familiar in daily life but has other connotations by implying smth vague and partially unknown, dream symbols carry messages from the unconscious to the rational mind

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unconscious (Jung)

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states that all products of the unconscious are symbolic and can be taken as guiding messages

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personal unconsciousness (Jung)

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aspect of the psyche that doesn’t usually enter an individual’s awareness but appears in overt behaviour or in dreams

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collective unconsciousness (Jung)

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aspect of the unconscious that manifests in universal themes that run thru all human life

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word association test (Jung)

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research technique used to explore the complexes in the personal unconscious by having a person respond quickly with a word to the reading of a word

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two general attitudes of ppl (Jung)

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  • introvert (inner-directed, needs privacy and space, chooses solitude to recover energy, reflective)
  • extrovert (outer-directed, needs sociability, chooses ppl as a source of energy, action-oriented)
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four functions of ppl (Jung)

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  • thinking function - logical, sees cause and effect relations, cool, distant, frank, and questioning
  • feeling function - creative, warm, intimate, has a sense of valuing positive or negatively
  • sensing function - sensory, oriented towards the body and senses, detailed, concrete, and present
  • intuitive function - sees many possibilities in situations, goes with hunches, impatient with earthly details, impractical, sometimes not present
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

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questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how ppl perceive the world and make decisions, developed by Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs-Myers

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Black box model

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captures interaction of stimuli, consumer characteristics, decision processes, and consumer responses

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latent content (Freud)

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relates to deep unconscious wishes or fantasies

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manifest content (Freud)

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superficial and meaningless, often masks or obscures latent content

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threat-simulation theory

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suggests that dreaming should be seen as an ancient biological defence mechanism

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expectation fulfillment theory

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posits that dreaming serves to discharge emotional arousals that haven’t been expressed during the day

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activation-synthesis theory

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states that dreams don’t actually mean anything, as they are electrical brain impulses that pull random thoughts and imagery from our memories

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continual activation theory

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proposes that dreaming is a result of brain activation and synthesis

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consolidation

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the function of sleep is to process, encode, and transfer data from short-term to long-term memory

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non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep

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processes the conscious-related memory (declarative memory)

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rapid eye movement (REM) sleep

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processes the unconscious-related memory (procedural memory)

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continual-activation

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during REM sleep, the unconscious part of the brain processes procedural memory, so the level of activation in the conscious part descends to a low level to the point that the senses are basically disconnected

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incubation

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sleeping on a problem or disengaging from actively trying to solve a problem to allow the unconscious processes to work on the problem

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spreading activation

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when problem solvers disengage from the task, they expose themselves to more info that can serve to inform the problem-solving

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selective forgetting

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once disengaged from the process, solvers can let go of certain ideas that may be inhibiting the process

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problem restructuring

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when solvers disengage, they are free to restructure or reorganize their representation of the task and capitalize on relevant info not previously noticed, switch strategies, or rearrange info

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study of neural correlates of consciousness (NCC)

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seeks to link activity within the brain to subjective human experiences in the physical world

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neurophilosophy

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progress comes from focusing on the body rather than the mind

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behaviourism

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focuses on observable behaviour as a means to studying the human psyche

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classical conditioning

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we develop responses to certain stimuli that aren’t naturally occurring known as reflexes, and that we make associations that cause us to generalize our response to one stimuli onto one neutral stimuli it’s paired with, developed by Ivan Pavlov

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variables of classical conditioning

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  • unconditioned stimulus
  • unconditioned response
  • conditioned stimulus
  • conditioned response
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operant conditioning

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refers to how an organism operates on the env and how it responds to what’s presented to it in the env, developed by Edward Lee Thorndike

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concepts of operant conditioning

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  • reinforcement
  • positive reinforcement
  • negative reinforcement
  • punishment
  • extinction
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reinforcement

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refers to any stimulus which strengthens or increases the probability of a specific response

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positive reinforcement

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involves adding smth to increase a response

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negative reinforcement

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involves taking smth negative away to increase a response

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punishment

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refers to adding smth aversive to decrease a behaviour

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extinction

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involves removing smth in order to decrease a behaviour

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radical behaviourism

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introduced by B.F. Skinner, philosophy of the science of behaviour that seeks to understand behaviour as a function of environmental histories of reinforcing consequences

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Skinner box

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used to measure responses of organisms and their orderly interactions with the env

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humanistic psych

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holds a hopeful, constructive view of human beings and their capacity to be self-determining, guided by a conviction that intentionality and ethical values are key psychological forces determining human behaviour

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Carl Rogers

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humanistic psych that introduced person- or client-centred therapy, which relies on clients’ capacity for self-reflection, empathy, and acceptance to promote their development

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Abraham Maslow

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humanistic psych that developed a hierarchy of motivation or needs culminating in self-actualization

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Rollo May

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humanistic psych that brought existential psychotherapy and phenomenology into the field by acknowledging human choice and tragic aspects of human existence

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Fritz Perls

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humanistic psych that developed gestalt therapy

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client-centred therapy

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provides a supportive env in which clients can re-establish their true identity

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existential therapy

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focuses on how, by accepting limitations and mortality, a client can overcome anxieties and view life as moments in which they’re free

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gestalt therapy

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focuses on the skills and techniques that permit an individual to be more aware of their feelings

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Rogers’s five characteristics of the fully functioning person

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  • open to experience
  • existential living
  • trust feelings
  • creativity
  • fulfilled life
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motivation theory

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developed by Frederick Taylor, holds that all work consists largely of simple, uninteresting tasks, and that the only viable method to get ppl to undertake these tasks was to provide incentives and monitor them carefully

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two main drives powering human behaviour

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  • biological drive
  • reward-punishment
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Harry F Harlow

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argued for a third drive that powers human behaviour called intrinsic motivation (the joy of the task itself)

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Edward Deci and Richard Ryan

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concluded that the conditions supporting the individual’s experience of autonomy, competence, and relatedness foster the greatest motivation for and engagement in activities

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Dan Pink’s results of carrot-and-stick

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  • diminished intrinsic motivation
  • lower performance
  • less creativity
  • crowding out of good behaviour
  • unethical behaviour
  • addictions
  • short-term thinking
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positive psychology movement

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combines emotion and intuition with research and reason

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Martin Seligman

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urged to turn towards understanding and building the human strengths to complement our emphasis on healing damage (focusing on ppl’s strengths and virtues)

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learned optimism ABCDE model

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A = adversity
B = belief
C = consequence
D = disputation
E = energization

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Mihalyi Csikszentimihályi

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developed the theory of flow (a state of optimal performance that can be entered while performing any activity)

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6 factors of flow experience

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  • intense and focused concentration on the present moment
  • merging action and awareness
  • loss of reflective self-consciousness
  • sense of personal control over the activity
  • distortion of temporal experience
  • experience of the activity being intrinsically rewarding (an autotelic experience)
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3 conditions to achieve flow state

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  • must be involved in an activity with clear goals and progress to add direction and structure
  • task must have immediate feedback to help the person negotiate changing demands and allows them to adjust performance
  • must have a good balance between the perceived challenges of the task and their skills and confidence in their ability
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cognitive psychology

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study of mental processes such as attention, memory, perception, language use, problem-solving, creativity, and thinking

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Ulric Neisser

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coined the term “cognitive psych” and defining it as all ‘processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used’

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cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)

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used to treat certain pathologies like simple phobias, PTSD, and addiction

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cognitive distortions

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patterns and beliefs that constitute erroneous thinking

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attention

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state of focused awareness on a subset of available perceptual info

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3 main subclasses of memory

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  • procedural (memory of the performance of particular types of action, often activated on a subconscious level)
  • semantic (encyclopedic knowledge)
  • episodic (memory of autobiographical events that can be explicitly stated)
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perception

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involves both physical senses and cognitive processes involved in selecting and interpreting senses

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language use

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refers to how language is processed and acquired

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metacognition

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involves conscious thought about thought processes

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divided attention

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refers to a person’s ability to focus on 2 or more things at a time

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evolutionary psychology

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seeks to develop and understand ways of expanding the emotional connection between individuals and the natural world

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adaptations

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products of natural selection

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core premises of evolutionary psych

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  • brain is an info-processor and produces behaviour in response to internal and external inputs
  • brain’s adaptive mechanisms were shaped by natural selection
  • diff neural mechanisms are specialized for solving problems in humanity’s evolutionary past
  • brain has evolved specialized neural mechanisms designed to solve recurring problems
  • most contents and processes of the brain are unconscious, so most mental problems that seem easy are actually difficult problems solved unconsciously by these mechanisms
  • human psych consists of many specialized mechanisms that are sensitive to diff classes of info or inputs

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