Psychology

Question 0

A humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers in which the client plays an active role

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Client-centred therapy

Question 1

The largest and most developed portion of the brain, which is responsible for controlling memory, understanding, and logic

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Cerebrum

Question 2

The mental processes in the brain associated with thinking, knowing and remembering

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Cognition

Question 3

Information that we are always aware of; performs the thinking when we take in new information

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Conscious

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A measure that indicates a relationship between 2 factors but does not indicate causation

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Correlation

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A ego’s way of distorting reality to deal with anxiety

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Defense mechanism

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A defence mechanism whereby a person refuses to recognize or acknowledge something that is painful

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Denial

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The shift of an emotion from its original focus to another object, person, or situation

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Displacement

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In operant conditioning, the diminishing of a conditioned response due to lack of reinforcement

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Extinction

Question 9

The continued focus on an earlier stage of psychosocial development due to an unresolved conflict at the oral, anal, or phallic stage

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Fixation

Question 10

A method used in psycho analysis where a patient relaxes and says whatever comes to mind

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Free association

Question 11

A time in a teenager’s life filled with extreme self-consciousness as he or she attempts to test and integrate various roles

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Identity crisis

Question 12

A scientist who specializes in the study of the human brain

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Neuroscientist

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A mental disorder involving anxiety and fear

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Neurotic disorder

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Process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting our sensations

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Perception

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An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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Personality

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A defence mechanism whereby a person attributes their own threatening impulses onto someone else

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Projection

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A process in which unacceptable desires or impulses are excluded from consciousness and left to operate in the unconscious

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Repression

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Reaching one’s full potential; occurs only after basic physical and psychological needs are met

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Self actualization

Question 19

Information processing in our mind that we are not aware of; holds our unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and memories; includes patterns of memories, instincts and experiences common to all

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Unconscious