Perspectives of Psychology
This perspective focuses on observable behaviors.
What is behaviorism?
This perspective focuses on making a person the best version of themselves possible, known as self-actualization
What is the Humanistic perspective?
This is something that causes a feeling of fear, dread, and uneasiness
What is anxiety?
This term refers to the feeling that a person has become detached from one's self
What is dissociate?
Psychology is the study of the human mind and this
What is behavior?
An explanation of the fear of snakes by an evolutionary psychologist would say this
What is the fear of snakes was inherited?
These two things are what behaviorists tend to agree on that influence all human behaviors...
What are Rewards and Punishments?
OCD is short for this three word term
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
This disorder used to be referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
Most people with this disorder experience delusions and hallucinations
What is schizophrenia?
According to Freud, this part of our unconscious mind operates based on instincts and desires...
What is the id?
The part of our consciousness that psychoanalysis attempts to access...
What is the Unconscious?
The most common compulsion in OCD is this because the #1 obsession in OCD is cleanliness/fear of germs
What is hand washing?
Paul can't remember where he lives, where he works, and even forgot the names of his children, as well as his wife of 15 years. He has faced a lot of stress at work lately but hasn't had any noticeable injuries. This dissociative disorder is what Paul is most likely experiencing
What is dissociative amnesia?
This symptom of schizophrenia is when people have a fixed, false belief
What is a delusion?
This influences most of our behaviors if we take rewards and punishments out of the equation...
What is our Environment?
This psychological perspective says that most of our problems can be fixed by simply changing the way we think about certain things
What is the cognitive pespective?
Anxiety, according to the psychodynamic perspective, comes from these types of memories that are stored in our unconscious mind
What are repressed memories?
This is the major difference between Dissociative Amnesia and Dissociative Fugue
What is spontaneous travel or disappearance?
This is widely accepted as the best combination treatment for most of the abnormal psychological disorders we have discussed so far in class
What is medication and therapy?
The biological perspective focuses on these processes that affect the human mind and behavior
What is brain chemistry?
By focusing only on observable behaviors, behaviorists fail to take into account the influence of these on our actions considering them to be too subjective...
What are cognitions/emotions?
Anxiety, from the evolutionary perspective, is meant to trigger this response when we face danger
What is the fight or flight response?
The major critique of most of the dissociative disorders is this
What is that people are making it up?
This type of therapy combines two psychological perspectives in order to change an action and the thoughts stemming from that action.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?