History of Psychology
This theory believes that people can improve and get better. It suggests that people must be an active participant in improving their behavior, and this stems from their desire to move beyond their current state. Maslow's hierarchy of needs shows how a person can move through this process.
What is Humanism?
Sensorimotor, Pre-operational, Concrete-operational, and Formal Operational are all examples this.
What is Piaget's Congnitive Development?
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?
Non-verbal communication includes these two things, such as crossed arms or eye-rolling.
What are body language and facial expressions?
Even though I'm afraid of heights, I decided to go up on the Odyssey course with my class anyway. I knew it was safe because of the harnesses connecting us to the wires. This is and example of what defense mechanism?
What is intellectualization?
To describe, explain, predict, control, and improve a person's behavior.
What are the goals of studying psychology?
Identity vs. Role Confusion and Intimacy vs. Isolation are two examples of this.
What are Erikson's stages of psychosocial development?
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?
This theory seeks to understand the cause of other people's behavior. Oftentimes we make the error of assuming and oversimplifying a situation, without having the facts.
What is attribution theory and attribution error?
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?
Learning disabilities, neurologically based processing problems (ADD, ADHD, Dyslexia,Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia) are usually diagnosed during middle childhood or adolescence. Why are these diagnoses significant?
Undiagnosed and untreated they can cause stress and anxiety in a child that may lead to poor mental health.
This therapy works to challenge and change a client's unhelpful cognitive distortions (thoughts) and behaviors.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?
Little by little, a behavior becomes normal as you become desensitized to the wrongness of it. Examples of this might be drinking underage, promiscuous behavior, speeding, or lying.
What is gradual escalation?
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?
Fitting new knowledge into what you already know, and reshaping the knowledge we already have to accommodate the new information coming in are the definitions of these to things.
What are Assimilation and Accommodation?
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?
Moral, Psychosocial, Psychosexual, and Cognitive are examples of what?
What are four different areas of developmental psychology?
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?