History of Psychology
This theory believes that the structure of your thoughts is important. It looks at sensations, mental images, and feelings to see how these elements combine to create more complex thinking and experiences.
What is Structuralism?
This defense mechanism helps a person deal with an emotional conflict by devising a reassuring but incorrect reason for what is happening.
What is rationalization?
Many people meet together in this type of therapy to show support for one another as they share their troubles in a safe space. These people show empathy for one another and help hold each other accountable when trying to make progress. The therapist facilitates the sessions.
What is group therapy?
The ability to consider your own and other's thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and intentions to help interpret how you are processing social interactions.
What is social thinking?
In the movie The Ultimate Gift, Jason Stevens goes on the ultimate journey of self-discovery. Through his hardships along the way and sincere introspection, Jason is able to reach this.
What is self-actualization?
To describe, explain, predict, control, and improve a person's behavior.
What are the goals of studying psychology?
Transferring your unacceptable feelings for someone onto a safer target.
What is displacement?
This type of therapy works to bring old memories to the surface that may have repressed from childhood. Addressing these events can help a person work through the emotions attached to them and move beyond traumatic memories.
What is psychoanalysis?
These professionals are interested in how attitudes relate to behaviors in a social setting.
Who are social psychologists?
The theory where someone gives casual explanations for someone's behavior, often crediting/blaming the situation on the person's disposition.
What is attribution theory?
This model looks at the interconnection between biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors to see how they play a role in a person's mental health.
Biopsychosocial Model?
When a person goes beyond denial and behaves in the opposite way to which he/she actually feels in order to cover up the truth. Conscious behaviors are adopted to overcompensate for a person's "socially unacceptable" thoughts or feelings. A middle school example would be teasing someone you have a crush on to keep anyone from knowing the truth.
What is reaction formation?
This therapy works to challenge and change a client's unhelpful cognitive distortions (thoughts) and behaviors.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?
Non-verbal communication includes these two things, such as crossed arms or eye-rolling.
What are body language and facial expressions?
Taking in information from external stimuli and making sense of it is...
sensation and perception
This German word used to describe patterns or configurations was chosen to name this theory that said "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
What is Gestalt Theory?
Reasoning is used in this defense mechanism to block confrontation within a person's thinking and feeling. You can make sense of the situation mentally, even if you feel differently about it.
What is intellectualization?
This type of therapy shows empathy for the client, helping the client to focus on his or her good qualities and self-worth.
What is Humanistic or person-centered therapy?
A widely held but fixed oversimplification of an idea, thing, or group of people.
What is a stereotype?
Negative feelings, opinions, and beliefs associated with a stereotype.
What is prejudice?
This Psychological Theory looks at a person's environmental, cultural, familial, and social influences.
What is Sociocultural Theory?
This mature defense mechanism is when a person turns their socially unacceptable impulses into acceptable ones. An example of this would be going for a run to clear your head when you're mad and want to scream at someone.
What is sublimation?
Useful in treating mood disorders, suicidal ideation, self-harm, and helping a person work through past trauma, this type of therapy works to help a client acknowledge where they are and implement strategies for moving to where they would like to be. Recognizing triggers and learning coping strategies to avoid undesired reactions.
What is dialectical behavioral therapy?
The inappropriate and unjustified treatment of people based on the groups they belong to.
What is discrimination?
Ivan Pavlov trained his dog to salivate at the ringing of a bell. This is an example of what type of conditioning?
What is classical conditioning?