Stress & Happiness
Being happier and more thankful after being sick
What is Post-Traumatic Growth?
Defending unconscious impulses by attributing them to other people (thinking someone hates you when in reality you hate them)
What is Projection?
Usual pattern of behavior, feelings, and thoughts
What is Personality?
Repeated, intrusive, and uncontrollable irrational thoughts or mental images that cause extreme anxiety and distress
What are Obsessions?
The field of practice and research that is directed toward helping people who suffer from psychological problems and disorders
What is Clinical Psychology?
The more you seek for happiness, the more distant is seems
What is the Happiness Paradox?
Going back to an earlier psychosexual stage (kid reverts to sucking his thumb on his way to the first day of school)
What is Regression?
Relatively stable tendencies (lazy, agreeable)
What are Traits?
Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that are performed to prevent or reduce anxiety.
What are Complusions?
Who created person-centered therapy?
Who is Carl Rogers?
Influenced by weather, good fortune, stressors
What is the Stability of Happiness?
Channeling unconscious impulses into productive outlet (someone violent plays football)
What is Sublimation?
An unintentional error in speech, regarded as revealing something about our unconscious.
What is Slips of the tongue “Freudian Slip?"
The interaction of one's biological, psychological, and sociocultural environment helps form their behaviors, thoughts, and feelings
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
Emphasizes innate potential for self-fulfillment, self-healing, and growth.
What is Humanistic Therapy?
Feeling worse off by comparing yourself to people who are doing better
What is Relative Deprivation?
Disguising unconscious content by turning it into its opposite (homophobia and being gay)
What is Reaction Formation?
Achieving the same result across multiple observations/attempts
What is Reliability?
Severe mood swings between major depressive episodes and manic episodes. characterized by little need for sleep, inflated self-esteem, talkative and racing thoughts, risky activities
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Seeks for clients to gain insight on how unconscious influences, emotions, and childhood experiences are influencing current distress
What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
Two required components for effective stress management
What is (set time aside) to do (something you enjoy)?
Moving a troubling impulse onto a less threatening object (yelled at by your boss then yelling at your dog)
Measuring/testing what you’re supposed to be measuring/testing
What is Validity?
What are the four D's associated with a Psychological Disorder?
What is Dysfunction, Distress, Danger, and Deviant?
What percentage of people benefit from antidepressant medication?
What is 40-60%?