History of Psychology
The ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians used this word to describe human body fluid (blood, bile, phlegm) and would often give someone a "good bleeding" cure mental illness.
What are Humors?
To consciously push emotions down and not acknowledge or deal with them.
What is Suppression?
Many people meet together in this type of therapy to show support for one another as they share their troubles in a safe space. These people show empathy for one another and help hold each other accountable when trying to make progress. The therapist facilitates the sessions.
What is Group Therapy?
The ability to consider your own and other's thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and intentions to help interpret how you are processing social interactions.
What is Social Thinking?
To have consciousness is to be in this state.
What is awareness?
To describe, explain, predict, control, and improve a person's behavior.
What are the goals of Psychology?
Transferring your unacceptable feelings for someone onto a safer target.
What is Displacement?
This type of therapy works to bring old memories to the surface that may have repressed from childhood. Addressing these events can help a person work through the emotions attached to them and move beyond traumatic memories.
What is Psychoanalysis?
These people are interested in how attitudes relate to behaviors.
Who are Social Psychologists?
The tendency to give casual explanations for someone's behavior, often crediting/blaming the situation or the person's disposition.
What is Attribution Theory?
Biological, Individual, Social, and Cultural analysis represent this.
What are the 4 types of Psychological Analysis?
To turn seemingly unacceptable impulses to the other extreme?
What is Reaction Formation?
This therapy works to challenge and change a client's unhelpful cognitive distortions and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Non-verbal communication includes these two things, such as crossed arms or eye rolling.
What are Body Language and Facial Expressions?
Lines that people cross that make you feel uncomfortable?
What are Social Boundaries?
This German word used to describe patterns or configurations was chosen to name this theory that said "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
What is Gestalt Theory?
To subconsciously push our feelings/impulses/desire's down to a place where we don't have to address them.
What is Repression?
This type of therapy shows empathy for the client, helping the client to focus on his or her good qualities and self-worth.
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
A widely held but fixed oversimplification of an idea, thing, or group of people.
What is a stereotype?
Negative feelings, opinions, and beliefs associated with a stereotype.
What is prejudice?
This Psychological Theory looks at a person's environmental, cultural, familial, and social influences.
What is Sociocultural Theory?
When your ego defends itself against unconscious impulses by denying their existence in themselves and attributing them to someone else.
What is Projection?
Previously called Rational Therapy, this treatment is an active directive, philosophical and empirically based psychotherapy- the aim of which is to resolve emotional and behavioral problems and help people lead happier lives by having a rational sense of reality. Developed in the 50's by Albert Ellis.
What is Rational Emotive Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (RECBT)?
The inappropriate and unjustified treatment of people based on the groups they belong to.
What is Discrimination?
In the movie Inside Out, this emotion was necessary to have in her core memories for Riley to feel remorse.
What is Sadness?