Test 3 (Ch. 7)

Question 1

What is The “I” in human relations psychology?

Answer 1

the individual

Question 2

What is Object Relations psychology based on?

Answer 2

the intrapsychic experience of early relationships with others

Question 3

type of psychology that is a perspective for understanding personality developed by scholars working out of the Stone Center at Wellesley College

Answer 3

Relational/Cultural

Question 4

She explored the processes of separation and individuals by which the child emergeslfrom a symbiotic, or intimate, fusion with the mother and assumes individual characteristics

Answer 4

Margaret Mahler

Question 5

she initiated shift in emphasis away from studying innate biological instincts and toward relations between people

Answer 5

Melanie Klein

Question 6

characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance and self-involvment, behaviors that hide a fragile sense of self worth

Answer 6

Narcissistic Personality

Question 7

Otto Kernberg focused on what disorder?

Answer 7

Borderline Personality Disorder

Question 8

a serious mental illness characterized by instability and displaying fiver or more specific clinical features

Answer 8

Borderline Personality Disorder

Question 9

she says that developing strong relationships is important in developing self; women are more tied to interpersonal relationships than men and the pscyhe develops differently in men and women

Answer 9

Nancy Chadrow

Question 10

the basic origins of growth and development

Answer 10

connectedness

Question 11

a way of relating and sharing in which all participants are fully participating

Answer 11

mutuality

Question 12

the break that is experienced when a person can’t engage in mutually empathetic and empowering relationships

Answer 12

disconnection

Question 13

within the pscyhe of individual self

Answer 13

intrapsychic

Question 14

between psyches or persons

Answer 14

interpsychic

Question 15

group of women who have developed a new collaborative theory of human development within relationships

Answer 15

Stone Center Group

Question 16

Prior to separation-individuation, there are two “forerunner phases” ____________ and normal symbiosis, in which the infant’s ego develops from a state of absolutely primary narcissism to a recognition of an external world. At this time there is no real separation of self from mother, but developments may occur that promote or impede the subsequent individuation process

Answer 16

normal autism

Question 17

Heinz Kohut said that children need to be ________—to have their talk and their accomplishments ackowledged, accepted, and praised

Answer 17

mirrored

Question 18

The _________ of the object image into opposites in the internal world of fantasy permits children to treat the internalized object as clearly good or bad while continuing to trust and love the actual external person who is an intricate combination of both.

Answer 18

splitting

Question 19

in object relations therapy, separating an object image into opposites

Answer 19

splitting

Question 20

Object relations theorists emphasize:

Answer 20

the intrapsychic experience of relationships with others.

Question 21

Relational-cultural theorist emphasize:

Answer 21

the interpsychic experience of relationships, or the connections and disconnections that occur between people in relationships

Question 22

In object relations theory,an ______ is the aim of relational needs in human development

Answer 22

object

Question 23

Human Relations

Answer 23

• Women are raised differently so they think differently
• Personality is developed by reacting to relationships
• Challenges “I” of other personality theories
• Very external
• Can’t have a concept of self without a concept of others
• Broken into 2 groups: Object Relations and Relational/Cultural

Question 24

says that your personality is a connection or disconnection; you either connect with someone or not; personality is based on the connections or disconnections you have in life

Answer 24

Relational/Cultural theory

Question 25

Which psychologist put play into psychoanalysis with kids?

Answer 25

Melanie Klein

Question 26

Believed you learn about yourself through relationships with others especially your mom and splitting is deciding people into good and bad (we tend to make people all good or all bad)

Answer 26

Melanie Klein

Question 27

Margaret Mahler said that separation begins at ____ months

Answer 27

4

Question 28

Individuation leads to establishment of self-concept at age ____

Answer 28

3

Question 29

Father of Narcisstic Personality Disorder and said it was developed between 4 months and 3 years of age

Answer 29

Henry Kohut

Question 30

Borderline Personality Disorder has 5 characteristics:

Answer 30

``` turbulent relationships fear of abandonment lack of control of emotions self-mutilation suicidal tendencies ```

Question 31

Borderline Personality Disorder is caused by ______. Because of early relationships with parents, child is aggressive, envy driven and hates.

Answer 31

splitting

Question 32

What is the biggest personality problem?

Answer 32

disconnections

Question 33

What are the 3 characteristics of a disconnected family?

Answer 33

secrecy, parental inaccessibility, and parentification (children grow up too soon)

Question 34

What is the purpose of Human Relations therapy?

Answer 34

creating new, mutual, empathetic connections

Question 35

Relational/Cultural theory

Answer 35

- challenges the "I" theories - trying to promote cooperation, giving and nurturing as equal to autonomy, logic and power - for healthy development, affiliations and relationships are essential - ability to make and keep relationships is a women's source of their sense of self-worth

Question 36

In order for people to connect you must have:

Answer 36

empathy and mutuality

Question 37

Human beings seek ________ (doesn't have to be with humans)

Answer 37

connections

Question 38

_______ _______ theorists look at how people develop intraspychic patterns of living out of their early relationships with significant others, particularly their mothers.

Answer 38

Object relations

Question 39

Who introduced the concept of splitting and emphasized the interaction of unconscious fantasies and real experiences in the development of children's object relations?

Answer 39

Melanie Klein

Question 40

Who explored the processes of separation-individuation?

Answer 40

Margaret Mahler

Question 41

the child emerges from a symbiotic fusion with the mother and develops individual characteristics

Answer 41

separation-individuation

Question 42

Who constructed a sequence of stages through which the ego passes in the process of becoming and individual?

Answer 42

Margaret Mahler

Question 43

Who identified the process of cyclically?

Answer 43

Nancy Chodorow

Question 44

produces daughters with the desire and capacity to mother but sons whose nurturing abilities are limited and repressed

Answer 44

cyclically

Question 45

___________ prevents people from engaging in mutually empathic relationships.

Answer 45

Disconnections