Psych Final Flashcards
(29 cards)
A persons relatively stable disposition to behave in a certain way
Trait
Statistical technique used to identify patterns of correlations in response to questions
Factor analysis
Brain areas involved in approach and avoidance, reward for punishment
Grays BAS AND BIS
MMPI
Most widely used personality inventory and developed identify emotional disorders
Sigmand freud
Pioneered the clinical approach to understanding personality
Psychodynamic theory
A personality theory that focuses on the interaction of mental forces
Libido
Sexual desire
Regression
Going back to a past behavior
Channeling socially unacceptable urges into acceptable behaviors
Sublimation
A drive for perfection and superiority through adulthood because of lower ranked childhood
Inferiority complex
Disorder in which someone has an exaggerated feeling of importance
Superiority complex
Person centered therapy
Client is responsible for changing his personality
The part that tries to satisfy a persons survival instinct
ID
Ego
Tries to identify the drive and come up with a realistic plan
Psychopathology
Study of the disorders of the mind, mood, and behavior
GAD disorder
Excessive anxiety and worry
Excessive fear of a specific object or situation
Phobias
Style in which a person interacts with the world, particularly other people
Personality
Persistent obsession and compulsion
OCD
PTSD
Prolonged reaction to a traumatic event
Sever depression that lasts more than 2 weeks
Major Depressive disorder
Alternating periods of mania and depression
Bipolar disorder
Schizophrenia
Delusions, disturbed perceptions inappropriate emotions and actions
Dominated by delusions and hallucinations
Paranoid
