Therapy
It was all a Dream
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Perspectives
100
3 stage in free association in which a patient is unwilling to reveal conflicts hidden in the unconcious.
What is resistance?
100
A patient's consciously remembered things or events in a dream.
What is manifest content?
100
Active listening, self- concept, unconditional positive regard, self-actualization are all terms used in this very person-centered approach to psychology.
What is humanistic psychology?
100
3 types of applied behavior analysis:
1.) Safely facing your issues through incremental exposure of fears.
2.) Conditioning a negative/unwanted behavior with unpleasant stimulus, to avoid that behavior.
3.) A target behavior is reinforced with tokens which can be exchanged for something you want to increase desired behavior.
What is exposure therapy, aversion therapy and token economy?
100
This psychological perspective emphasizes and focus on a person's thoughts, memory and brain processing and their role in behaviors.
What is cognitive approach?
200
First steps in free association therapy which allows the ego to lower its walls and create a trusting relationship with therapist.
What is greater trust and therapeutic rapport?
200
A therapist, typically a psychodynamic one, who views dreams as symbolic representations of unconscious urges, conflicts or internal forces.
What is latent content?
200
Karen Horney uses this therapeutic approach to influence existing relationships. A psychodynamic approach partly influenced by humanism.
What is Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)?
200
In exposure therapy creating a fear heirarchy allows therapist to help remove a patients negative response with positive ones.
What is systematic desensitization?
200
This psychological perspective seeks to understand the relationship between natural selection, adaptation and current human actions and behaviors.
What is evolutionary perspective?
300
Natural part of free association therapy when positive or negative feelings are placed onto the therapist from the patient. Therapist must be careful to avoid an unconscious emotional response to this.
What is transference?
300
Vivid dreams typically occur in this stage of sleep as brain activity increases.
What is REM stage 4?
300
This law dictates performance improves with mental and physiological arousal, but up to a certain point. When arousal becomes to high performance decreases. 
What is Yerkes-Dodson Law?
300
A form of behavioral therapy in which patients earn secondary reinforcers when desired behavior is demonstrated. These reinforcers can be exchanged for more desired rewards at a later time.
What is token economies?
300
A psychological perspective which seeks to understand functions of neurons and neurotransmitters shape human behaviors.
What is biological approach?
400
The early social relationships in childhood are the main source of mental problems in adulthood.This therapy focuses on on an important person in the child's upbringing to reveal emotional issues arising from that relationship.
What is Object Relations Therapy?
400
This hypothesis proposes that dreams try to make sense (synthesis) of random neural activity during REM (activation). Dreams are bizarre because the cerebral cortex and forebrain is less active during REM.
What is activation-synthesis hypothesis?
400
The spread of data from a central value (mean, median)is known as this. low spread is consistent and high spread is inconsistent and not reliable.
What is standard deviation?
400
This therapy uses a feedback loop by measuring brain electrical activity and a audio-visual screen display to make clients/patients aware of their mental/body reactions to certain stimuli. The patients see the biology of their psychology in real time.
What is biofeedback therapy?
400
Defense mechanisms, hidden unconscious conflicts or desires, childhood experiences and interpersonal relationships are part of this approach.
What is psychodynamics?
500
Two modes of therapy: One is expensive and takes longer, the other creates healthier interpersonal interactions and better coping skills as your problems are not unique.
What is individual and group therapy?
500
This idea posits that dreams are a way to process information and consolidate memory and emotions experienced in the waking part of the day.
What is cognitive/memory consolidation?
500
Both combine elements of cognitive and behavior perspectives:
1. Identifies and changes negative thought patterns.
2. Challenges irrational thought process and their consequences.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) & Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (RABT)?
500
Mostly focuses on unconscious conflicts, sexual and violent urges, and early childhood life.
What is psychoanalysis?