Thinking
Sometimes referred to as the “aha” experience, this refers to the sudden ability to solve a problem.
Insight
This refers to fulfilling one’s potential.
Self-actualization
According to Freud, the ego unconsciously protects itself by using these.
Defense Mechanisms
In a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder, this terms refers to thinking about something over and over again.
Obsession
This occurs when a patient displaces his/her feelings toward someone onto someone else such as the therapists
This type of thinking involves thinking about your thought processes.
Metacognition
This is achieved when an organism is able to return to a normal state of being (for example, a person is no longer hungry).
Homeostasis
According to Freud, he identifies these 3 parts of personality and explains their role this way.
What are the id, ego, and superego.
The id – pleasure principle; what you WANT
The ego – reality principle; what you CAN do
The superego – morality principle; what you SHOULD do
Daily Double!!!
In distinguishing between normal and abnormal, psychologists look at least two of these things.
This occurs when a patient refuses all efforts to reveal details about his/her childhood.
Resistance
This type of 2 – 3 word speech, used by very young kids, is not a complete sentence but the meaning is still understood.
Telegraphic Speech
The Incentive Theory stresses the role of this in impacting behavior.
Environment
These are two words that can be used to describe personality is.
What are persistent, enduring, stable, and unique.
In this type of schizophrenia, a person either believes that someone is out to get him/her or that he/she is invincible.
paranoid schizophrenia.
This type of therapy tries to help a person realize that his/her thoughts are irrational thereby encouraging the person to think more logically which in turn will help the person experience healthier emotions
Rational-Emotive Therapy
This is demonstrated when a person is flexible in his/her thinking and is able to reorganize things to achieve insight.
Creativity
According to this theory, a biological need causes an organism to act in a certain way until this need is satisfied.
Drive-Reduction Theory
This type of defense mechanism is demonstrated when a person’s inner feelings are places onto someone else.
Projection
A class of disorders in which a person loses touch with reality which may involve forgetting personal information as well as traveling away from their personal life.
Dissociative Disorder
This is one characteristic of client-centered therapy.
What is…
Therapist is genuine
Therapist assumes people are basically good
Therapist activity listens
Therapist provides emotional support
Therapist does not judge or criticism
Therapist does not offer his/her own opinions
Therapist believes people cane handle their own problems
The changing and reorganizing of stored information in memory to create new or transformed information is known as this.
Thinking
According to this theory about emotions, the brain causes the body to react at the same time emotion is experienced.
Cannon-Bard Theory
This type of learning theory examines the impact of observational learning on personality.
A class of disorders in which a person redirects an emotional difficulty in the loss of a physical function.
Conversion Disorder
This approach is a step by step way of helping a person reduce their anxieties.
Systematic Desensitization