Psychoanalytic Concepts
Behavioral Concepts
Cognitive Concepts
Developmental Concepts
Attachment Concepts
200

The term for the pleasure-seeking energies of the id focused on certain erogenous areas.

What is psychosexual energy?

200

The psychologist who developed the concept of the transitional object.

What is operant conditioning?

200

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?

200

The term for the process of moving from dependence to independence in early childhood.

What is individuation?

200

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?

400

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?

400

The term for the process of reinforcing successive approximations of a desired behavior.

What is shaping?

400

The term for the tendency to apply certain events or statements to oneself without basis.

What is personalization?

400

The term for the process of internalizing the values of a culture through social interaction.

What is internalization?

400

What is the term for an attachment style where children show little emotion when their caregiver leaves or returns?  

What is anxious-avoidant attachment?

600

The term for the process of separating incompatible feelings from each other.

What is splitting?

600

This is the term for acquiring knowledge or skills by watching others?

What is observational learning?

600

The term for the tendency to classify experiences or people as either good or bad.

What is dichotomous thinking?

600

The term for the process of developing a sense of mastery and competence during school age.

What is mastery and competence?

600

According to Bowlby, this is the critical period for attachment formation.

What are the first 2 years of life?

800

The term for the energy created by the life instincts.

What is libido?

800

The term for the process of reducing a behavior by removing the reinforcement.

What is extinction?

800

The term for the process of changing one’s self-talk to change behavior.

What is cognitive behavior modification?

800

What is the term for the final stage in Freud’s psychosexual development theory, characterized by mature sexual interests?  

What is the genital stage?

800

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?

1000

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?

1000

The term for the process of learning to respond differently to similar stimuli.

What is discrimination?

1000

The term for the belief that a person can successfully achieve desired outcomes in a specified area.

What is self-efficacy?

1000

The term for the process of developing a sense of satisfaction from looking at the past in later life.

What is life review?

1000

Mary Ainsworth developed this assessment to identify different attachment styles in children.

What is the strange situation?