Psychoanalytic Concepts
The term for the pleasure-seeking energies of the id focused on certain erogenous areas.
What is psychosexual energy?
The psychologist who developed the concept of the transitional object.
What is operant conditioning?
The term for the tendency to view a situation as much more or much less important than it really is.
What is magnification or minimization?
The term for the process of moving from dependence to independence in early childhood.
What is individuation?
The term for the attachment style where children experience separation anxiety and do not feel reassured when the caregiver returns.
What is anxious-ambivalent attachment?
Anna Freud's term for the defense mechanism where a person assumes a role they have been passively traumatized by.
What is identification with the aggressor?
The term for the process of reinforcing successive approximations of a desired behavior.
What is shaping?
The term for the tendency to apply certain events or statements to oneself without basis.
What is personalization?
The term for the process of internalizing the values of a culture through social interaction.
What is internalization?
What is the term for an attachment style where children show little emotion when their caregiver leaves or returns?
What is anxious-avoidant attachment?
The term for the process of separating incompatible feelings from each other.
What is splitting?
This is the term for acquiring knowledge or skills by watching others?
What is observational learning?
The term for the tendency to classify experiences or people as either good or bad.
What is dichotomous thinking?
The term for the process of developing a sense of mastery and competence during school age.
What is mastery and competence?
According to Bowlby, this is the critical period for attachment formation.
What are the first 2 years of life?
The term for the energy created by the life instincts.
What is libido?
The term for the process of reducing a behavior by removing the reinforcement.
What is extinction?
The term for the process of changing one’s self-talk to change behavior.
What is cognitive behavior modification?
What is the term for the final stage in Freud’s psychosexual development theory, characterized by mature sexual interests?
What is the genital stage?
The term for the negative impact on a child’s emotional and cognitive life due to abrupt separation from familiar people.
What is separation anxiety?
This Freudian process occurs when the client attributes feelings about another person onto the therapist, which exposes the unconscious motivation behind the individual's defense mechanisms.
What is transference?
The term for the process of learning to respond differently to similar stimuli.
What is discrimination?
The term for the belief that a person can successfully achieve desired outcomes in a specified area.
What is self-efficacy?
The term for the process of developing a sense of satisfaction from looking at the past in later life.
What is life review?
Mary Ainsworth developed this assessment to identify different attachment styles in children.
What is the strange situation?