People
His stages of psychosocial development suggests that individual's personality develops throughout the lifespan
Erik Erikson
The need to engage in repetitive behaviors or mental acts in response to the unwanted thoughts and urges
OCD/ Obsessive compulsive disorder
form of exposure therapy used to treat phobias and anxiety disorders by exposing a person to the feared object or situation through a stimulus hierarchy
Client- Centered Therapy
parents give children reasonable demands and consistent limits, express warmth and affection, and listen to the child's point of view
Authoritative parenting
the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.
DSM- 5
conducted attachment experiments with monkeys where the monkeys preferred the soft monkey that didn't provide nourishment to the wired one that did, this shows that there is more to attachment than nourishment
Harry Harlow
An anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience
PTSD/ Post traumatic Stress disorder
When the therapist interprets the symbolic meaning of the client's dreams
Dream Analysis
characterized by the child using the parent as a secure base from which to explore; sad when parent leaves, happy when they return
Secure Attachment
cause or causes of a psychological disorder
Etiology
His theory of cognitive development holds that our cognitive abilities develop through specific stages, which exemplifies the discontinuity approach to development. As we progress to a new stage, there is a distinct shift in how we think and reason.
Jean Piaget
Mood disorder characterized by mood states that vacillate between depression and mania
Bipolar
A process in psychoanalysis in which the patient transfers all of the positive or negative emotions associated with the patient's other relationships to the psychoanalyst
Transference
Stage in Jean Piaget’s 4 Stages of Cognitive Development when ages 0-2; experience the world through senses and actions
Sensorimotor
the knowledge that an object exists even when it is not in sight
Object Permanence
studied how different attachment styles affected kids; identified three types of parent-child attachment: secure, avoidant, and resistant
Mary Ainsworth
Characterized by a continuous state of excessive, uncontrollable, and pointless worry and apprehension
Generalized Anxiety disorder
form of psychotherapy that aims to change cognitive distortions and self-defeating behaviors; changes mindset that is holding someone back
Cognitive-behavioral therapy
Stage in Jean Piaget’s 4 Stages of Cognitive Development when ages 12 and older; can think about abstract events and hypotheticals as well as find different solutions for a problem
the idea that even if you change the appearance of something, it is still equal in size as long as nothing has been removed or added
Conservation
This psychologist developed and refined a theory describing four parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved.
Diana Baumrind
When a person exhibits two or more distinct, well-defined personalities or identities and experiences memory gaps for the time during which another identity emerged
Dissociative identity disorder
form of exposure therapy used to treat phobias and anxiety disorders by exposing a person to the feared object or situation through a stimulus hierarchy
Systematic Desensitization
Stage in Kohlberg’s 6 stages of moral development when kids obey rules to avoid punishment or gain concrete rewards
Preconventional Morality
characterized by the child using the parent as a secure base from which to explore; sad when parent leaves, happy when they return
Imprinting