Psychology Flashcards
(25 cards)
Classical conditioning
Pair unconditioned stimulus (e.g. food) with conditioned stimulus (bell) to get response (e.g salivation)
Eventually, conditioned stimulus itself will get a response (ringing the bell will cause salivation)
ASSOCIATION NOT REWARD; usually deals with INVOLUNTARY responses
Operant conditioning: reinforcement vs. punishment
Reward or punishment; usually associated with VOLUNTARY responses
Reinforcement: target behavior followed by desired reward (positive reinforcement) or removal of aversive stimulus (negative reinforcement)
Punishment: Application of aversive stimulus (positive punishment) or removal of desired reward (negative punishment) to extinguish unwanted behavior
Extinction
Discontinuation of reinforcement eliminates behavior (can happen with operant or classical)
Transference
Psychiatrist is seen as parent (person projects feeling about an important person onto physician)
Counter-transferance
Doctor sees patient as younger sibling
Acting out
Tantrums
Expressing unacceptable feelings and thoughts through actions
Denial
Avoiding the reality
Seen in AIDS and ca patients
Displacement
Mom gets yelled at by husband so she yells at kid
Transferring avoided ideas and feelings to a neutral person or object
Projection
Husband want to cheat on wife, so he accuses wife of cheating on him
Dissociation
Temporary, drastic changes in personality, memory, or consciousness to avoid emotional stress
Can lead to multiple personality disorder
Fixation
Adults fixating on video games (generally adults doing something more childish)
Regression
Kid acts like a younger kid when sick, punished, or have a new sibling
Idealization
Patient boasts about physician and his accomplishments ignoring flaws
Identification (think of the 50 shades of gray dude)
Abused child later becomes the child abuser
Modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful (think 50 shades of gray dude)
Intellectualization
Looks a diagnosis in an objective/ scientific way, as if it is happening to someone else
Patient focuses only on rates of survival after being diagnosed with ca
Isolation (of affect)
Separation of felling from ideas/event
Describing graphic detail without emotional response
Passive aggression
Failing to meet the needs/expectations of others as a show of opposition
Patient does not like job, so he comes in to work late every day
Rationalization
Proclaiming logical reasons for actions performed for other reasons, usually to avoid self-blame
Reaction formation
Guy who thinks about sex decides to go and join a monastery
Splitting
People are either good or bad (seeing with borderline personality disorder)
Kind of like idealization, but people can be good or BAD
Repression
Involuntarily withholding a idea or feeling from conscious awareness
Kid does not remember going to counseling after parents’ divorce
Sublimation
Kid channels his anger/ frustration from father’s abuse toward football
Think… solid CHANNELS itself directly into gas
Altruism
Replaces feelings of ill will/ negativity, with good deeds
Suppression
Focus; packaging a concern in order to focus on what is currently at hand
Choosing not to worry about the big game until it is time to play
