Test 1 - Ch.1-3 Flashcards
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Burying in the unconscious the unacceptable impulses of the ID
Repression
Employing behviours typical of an earlier stage of development.
Regression
Projetion
Attributing ones own desires to others.
Hiding the real issues behind a screen of abstract analyses.
Intellectualization
Denial
Refuse to acknowledge an unpleasant reality.
The transfer of feelings from one person to another less threatening person.
Displacement
Represing unacceptable desires by expressing the opoosite view point.
Reaction formation
Transformation of sexual or aggressive engery into some more acceptable activity
Sublimition
Diathesis-stress
A predisposition to develop a disorder interacting with the experience of stres causes mental ilness.
Declares that disorder can not be understood as resulting from th influence of one factor, be it biological, psychological, or social.
Biopsychosocial Models.
Neurotransmitter
Chemical substance that carry messages from one neuron to the next complx pathway pf mervpis activity within the brain.
Structure of Personality
ID - Ego - Superego
Procedure in which information is gathered systematically in the evaluation it serves as the preliminary to a diagnosis.
ASSESSMENT
a determination orn of the na identifiction of a person’s disease or condition.
Diagnosis
All or almost all human behaviour. including abnormal behaviour was learned.
Classical Conditioning
All actions are followed by consequences of one kind of another
Operant Conditioning
When a behaviour increases in frequency as a result of consisitent consequences.
Reinforcment
When a behaviour decreases in frequency as a result of its consequences.
Punishment
Disturbance or damage to the brain, problems of control of one or another aspect of the peripheral nervous system or malfunctiong of the endocrine system.
BIOLOGICAL THEORY
Cellular deterioration and lost.
Brain Theory
Name 4 types of mental health professionals
Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatric Nurse, Psychiatrist & Psychiatric Social Worker
Psychopathology
The study of nature of psychological problems
True/False - All infrequent behaviours or thoughts should be judged as abnormal.
FALSE