Theorists
This psychologist is known for the concept of "Operant Conditioning"...
B.F. Skinner
This theory proposes that behavior is influenced by a variety of factors that work together...a person’s parents, friends, school, economic class, home environment and other factors all influence how a person thinks and acts...
Systems Theory
Thoughts and behaviors that are in conflict or dissonant with the needs and goals of the ego or in conflict with a persons ideal self-image...
Ego Dystonic
This category of drugs includes:
PCP, mushrooms, mescaline, ketamine, LSD
Hallucinogens
This personality disorder describes a person who is generally passive in most relationships, lacks self-confidence, feels helpless and tolerates abusiveness from others...
Dependent Personality Disorder
This theorist is known for proposing that there are 8 distinct stages of life...
Erik Erikson
This theory uses positive influences, rather than the diseased human psyche and our defenses, as a model for the realization of human potential...That is, the theory uses saints, artists, heroes and other similar figures — people who have strong ego identities that others can strive to emulate — as aspirational examples...
Transpersonal Theory-by Carl Jung
The process of helping individuals, families, groups and community to increase their personal, interpersonal, socioeconomic and political strength and develop influence toward improving their circumstances...
Empowerment
This category of drugs includes:
crack/cocaine, methamphetamine, Ritalin, nicotine, caffeine
Stimulants
This diagnosis is characterized by a single manic episode or much more commonly by recurrent manic or hypomanic episodes, often immediately preceded or followed by a major depressive episode...
Bipolar I Disorder
Sigmund Freud
This theory seeks to understand the reasons why people behave the way they behave. Unlike behavioral psychology, which uses scientific methods to determine causal relationships between people’s behavior and their environment, this theory focuses on the individual’s inner world, which is divided into the id, the ego and the superego.
Psychodynamic Theory
The self; part of the mind that mediates between the demands of the body & the realities of the environment, consisting of cognition, perception, defense mechanism, memory & motor control...
Ego
This drug category includes:
Heroin, codeine, vicodin, morphine, Oxycontin
Opioids
This personality disorder includes disturbances in thought, perception and speech but the symptoms are not considered as severe...typical but not inevitable traits are ideas of reference, paranoid ideation, magical thinking, strange fantasies, eccentric or peculiar behavior and social isolation...
Schizotypal personality disorder
This theorist built on the work of B.F. Skinner, to develop "Social Learning" theory...
Albert Bandura
This theory's tenets include:
~Groups and individuals try to advance their own interests over the interests of others.
~Power is unequally divided, and some social groups dominate others.
~Social order is based on the manipulation and control of non-dominant groups by dominant groups.
~Lack of open conflict is a sign of exploitation.
~Social change is driven by conflict, with periods of change interrupting long periods of stability.
Conflict Theory
Emotional reactions that are assigned to current relationships but originated in earlier, often unresolved and unconscious experiences...
Transference
This drug category includes:
Ativan, Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, Restoril
Anxiolytics/Benzodiazepines
A disorder in which the individual has little interest in the external world or capacity to relate effectively to people or objects and is presumed to be devoting full attention to inner wishes and sensations. Other symptoms may include deficient communication skills and unusual responses to stimuli...
Autistic Disorder
The "Theory of Cognitive Development" was proposed by...
Jean Piaget
This theory is concerned with how internal processes such as needs, drives, and emotions motivate human behavior.
~Emotions have a central place in human behavior.
~Unconscious, as well as conscious mental activity serves as the motivating force in human behavior.
~Early childhood experiences are central in the patterning of an individual’s emotions, and therefore, central to problems of living throughout life.
~Individuals may become overwhelmed by internal and/or external demands.
~Individuals frequently use ego defense mechanisms to avoid becoming overwhelmed by internal and/or external demands.
Psychodynamic Theory
Behavior, values, feelings that are in harmony with or acceptable to the needs and goals of the ego, or consistent with one's self-image...
Ego Syntonic
Paxil, Effexor, Cymbalta, Zoloft, Pristiq, Trintellex
Antidepressants
This disorder is characterized by irresponsibility, inability to feel guilt or remorse for actions that harm others, frequent conflicts with people and social institutions, the tendency to blame others and not learn from mistakes, low frustration tolerance...
Antisocial Personality Disorder