Contributions of Psychosocial Science
What ages does the sensorimotor stage cover?
birth - 1.5
What is the mechanism by which several unconscious wishes, impulses, or attitudes can be combined into a single image in the manifest dream content?
Condensation
process of the patient unconsciously displacing onto individuals in his or her current life those patterns of behavior & emotional reactions that originated from figures earlier in life
What is the strongest risk factor for suicide?
Hopelessness
What is a critical development of the sensorimotor stage?
Object Permanence
Magical thinking emerges in which stage of development? Define Magical Thinking.
Preoperational (ages 2-7)
Events that occur together are thought to cause one another
Unconscious system
What is the false belief or assumption out of touch with reality that is firmly maintained even despite significant evidence contradicting the belief.
Delusion
Name the emotional state characterized by anxiety, depression, or unease; subjective unpleasant feeling.
Dysphoric.
A little girl saying "Dad! Don't cut the flowers, you'll hurt them!" is an example of:
Animistic Thinking
In which stage of development does conservation emerge?
Concrete Operations (ages 7-11)
Which theory divides the mind into unconscious, preconscious and conscious systems?
Freud's Topographic Theory of the Mind
Define countertransference.
the physician unconsciously displaces onto the pt patterns of behaviors or emotional reactions as if the pt was a significant figure from earlier in life
What is the inability to experience pleasure?
Anhedonia
The development of object permanence marks the transition to which stage?
Preoperational Stage
The emergence of hypotheticodeductive thinking occurs in which stage? Define hypotheticodeductive reasoning.
Formal Operations (ages 11- end of adolescence)
Highest organization of cognition, enables persons to make a hypothesis or proposition and test it against reality
Which principle is a learned function closely related to the maturation of the ego which modifies the pleasure principle and requires delay or postponement of immediate gratification?
Reality Principle
SIGECAPS are for symptoms of ____. Define SIGECAPS
Depression
sleep, interest, guilt/hopelessness, energy, concentration, appetite, psychomotor agitation slowing, suicidality
Which type of therapy believes that changing behavior will change thinking & subsequent emotions?
Behavior Therapy
What type of conditioning occurs when neutral stimuli are associated with a psychologically significant event?
Classical
In which sub-period of the sensorimotor stage does the primary circular reaction emerge?
2-5 months
Which psychosocial stage of development is often called the terrible twos- children attempt to develop into autonomous individuals
Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt
DIGFAST is for symptoms of ___. Define.
mania; distractibility, impulsivity, grandiosity, flight of ideas, activity increased, sleep decreases, talkativeness
A college student once needed 5 drinks to feel drunk, he now needs 9. What is he exhibiting?
Tolerance
Define repression.
Memory is pushed into the unconscious and never thought of again.