Test 1 Psychology of Mental Health Flashcards
Personality + Theories (Trait, Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Social Cognitive) (38 cards)
Name the 5 dimensions of health
- Physical
- Mental
- Spiritual
- Social
- Emotional
they are all interconnected
statistics:
how many person will experience mental issues
1/5
what is the higher prevalence group
16-25yrs old
impacts of not enough prevention
criminality, family disruption
name the 4 spectrum places
healthy, reacting, injured, ill
spectrum= inevitability of changes to health status
Jahoda’s Deffinition of mental health (6):
1.self-acceptance
2. Ability to love
3.autonomy
4. accurate perception of reality
5. Environment mastery (adapting to what happens in your life.)
6. Integration (well-balanced life)
What is personality:
-Style in which we interact with the world, others.
-It is long-term, stable, hard to change
What is a trait:
A person’s unique+ relatively stable pattern of characteristics/behaviour patterns (values, traditions…)
What is temperament:
How a person reacts to the world, including with their activity level, starting when they are very young.
Heredity aspects of personality (sensitivity, adaptivity…)
Trait theories:
how personality differs from each other.
Not about how personality develops/why people are a certain way
Trait theory:
Constitutional Theory (sheldon)
Ectomorph
Mesomorph
Endomorph
(body type theory)
Trait theory:
Cattell’s 16 personality factors
(2 kind of traits…)
Factors analysis (16pf) questionnaire
-surface trait: observable
-source trait: underlying surface traits, at the core of personality
Trait theory:
Eysenck
2 Dimensions:
-Extraversion/Introversion
-Emotional stability/instability
Trait theory:
Friedmand and Rosenman
type A:more stress, competitive, prone to health issues…
type B: laidback, easygoing…
Psychodynamic perspective:
Sigmund Freud:
3 levels of personality
Id: plesure principle (devil)
ego: reality principle
superego: moral gardien (angel)
id: imidiate gratification
ego: find compromise btw 2
Freud:
3 levels of consciousness
1.Conscious: what aware of
2. preconscious:storage, what could be remember if put effort into it
3.unconscious: repressed feelings, unwanted desires
Freud:
psychosexual stages:
formation of personality
Oral: 0-1,mouth
Anal: 1-3, anus (toilet training)
Phallic: 3-6, genitals, odiopus (boy), electa (girl)
Latency: 6-12
Genital: 12+ mature sexual interests
age of 5-6
Post-Fredian psychodinamic:
Alfred Alder
inferiority complex
Post-Fredian psychodinamic:
Carl Jung
1. full development
2. personality (3)
- middle age
- ego, Collective conscious, personal conscious
personal conscious: Values, traditions, culture, shared by people inherited from past generations
Post-Fredian psychodinamic:
Carl Jung
1. Archetypes
2. persona
- Images common to most people (mother=caring)
- Wearing a mask at work, school… best = no mask
Humanistic Approach:
Roger (3)
- Self-concept (how do I define myself)
- ideal self vs real self
- unconditional positive regard= fully functioning person
Humanistic Approach:
Maslow
pyramid from top to bottom
-Self- actualization
-Self-esteem
-Love + belonging
-Safety/security
-Physiological needs
-Self actualization: feel happy/content/align with
-Self-Esteem: reached your goals
Social cognitive perspective:
(definition)
behaviours results in interaction of
1. environment,
2. Cognition,
3. Learning,
4. past experiences
Social cognitive perspective:
Rotter (3)
- Internal locus of control
-outcomes= direct results of your efforts - External locus of control
-outcomes controlled by others, luck/chance - learned helplessness
-when many attempts were made to accomplish something, each time resulting in failure, might lead person to give up
