Schools Of Thought Flashcards
(16 cards)
What is positive reinforcement?
Adding something good
What is negative reinforcement?
Taking away something bad
What do defense mechanisms do?
Saves you from fear, anxiety or any emotion that makes you skiddish
What does the Freudian view of emotions do?
Bottle them up, then let them all out at once
Who is Albert Ellis?
Cognitive theorist
All or nothing thinking
What kind of people is humanism therapy for?
People who DONT have psychological disorders
What is reaction formation?
Behave in the way opposite of what’s actually going on
What’s cognitive dissonance?
Occurs any time we hold to conflicting thoughts or emotion in mind (mixed emotions), must convince themselves one of those feeling isn’t true
What is displacement?
Redirect an emotion or impulse, that makes us uncomfortable, onto a new target
What is the key to behavioral therapy?
Face your fear
What is the social learning theory?
Albert Bondura
Focus less on environment and more on skills, and individual will get reinforcement needed through their world
What is the autonomic nervous system?
(Labile)
What makes your jumpy and overactive
What is the aurosal nervous system
Heart rate, breathing rate increasing and sweating
What did Kagan’s study find?
Kids who had overprotective parents tend to become shy later on
What does norepinephrine do for the body?
Wakes up the body when something important is said
What is the amygdala responsible for?
Limbic system
Survival and primitive emotions
