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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology

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1. Use unconscious messages to become more aware and closer to full potential






2. Choleric -high in activity but low in social contribution - dominant






3. Used to reduce anxiety or to induce sleep; increases effectiveness of GABA (inhibitory); high potential for causing habituation and addiction; Ex. barbiturates and benzodiazepines such as diazepam (Valium®) and alprazolam (Xanax®)






4. Freud; pathological behaviour - dreams - unconscious behaviour (e.g. hysterical or neurotic women) are symptoms of underlying - unresolved conflict - which are manifested when the ego does not find acceptable ways to express conflict






5. Model based on learning; application of classical and operant conditioning principles to human abnormal behavior - change maladaptive behaviour through new learning; radical behavioralism - neobehaviouralism






6. The part of mind that mediates between the environment and the pressures of the id and the superego






7. Accusing others of having one'S own unacceptable feelings






8. Treating symptoms rather than underlying problem






9. Primary process; human motivation to seek pleasure and avoid pain; id






10. Donald Meichenbaum - prepares people for foreseeable stressors






11. 'objects' relationships: real others and one'S internalized image of others;






12. Patients are seen 4-5 times a week and for many years - Initially: hypnosis - Then: free association - Transference - countertransference






13. To change behaviour to be more desired or adaptive; successful in treating phobias - fetishes - OCD - sexual problems - and childhood disorders (especially nocturnal enuresis)






14. Female elements of a man






15. B.F. Skinner - Ivan Pavlov - Joseph Wolpe






16. Full individual potential; Buddha - Jesus and mandala in cultures






17. Delivers electric current to brain to induce convulsions; effective for severely depressed patients






18. Safe outlets for unconscious material and wish-fulfillment - valuable for analysts; manifest content provides information about latent content






19. Response to perceived one'S meaninglessness is neurosis or neurotic anxiety (as opposed to normal or justified anxiety)






20. Material from individual'S own experiences - can become conscious






21. The part of mind that imposes learned or socialized drives - not something one is born with - but develops over time - influenced by moral and parental training






22. Uses operant conditioning to change behavior - reinforced for behaviors that come closer and closer to desired action






23. Treats family as a whole as client






24. Provide trusting atmosphere for client to self-direct growth and tap his own 'vast resources' - evidence of growth includes a congruent self-concept - positive self-regard - internal locus-of-evaluation - and willingness to experience






25. Based on personal activity and social interest - ruling-dominant type - getting-learning type - avoiding type - socially useful type






26. Goal is exploration of awareness and full experiencing of the present; success is connecting client with present existence






27. psychodynamic approach - because unconscious elements are addressed - in order to be more aware - unconscious material is explored through analyzing dreams - artwork - personal symbols






28. Emphasized social and interpersonal relationships; what one does is meant to elicit particular reactions






29. Drugs for bipolar disorder - mania appears to be from excessive monoamines; inhibit monoamines such as norepinephrine and serotonin (ex. Lithium)






30. Believed some emotional disturbances at least partly caused by biological factors






31. Ego - id - superego






32. Ritualistic activity to relieve anxiety about unconscious drives






33. Reduces depressive symptoms - by taking opposite action of antimanics; depression appears to be from abnormally low levels of monoamines; increase production and transmission of various monoamines; - Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) - Monoamine oxid






34. Carl Gustav Jung - the psyche was directed toward life and awareness (rather than sex) - In each personal the psyche contains conscious and unconscious elements (personal and collective unconscious)






35. Person'S dark side - often projected onto others; devils and evil spirits in cultures






36. Leader of humanistic movement; hierarchy of needs






37. Patients react to the therapist like they react to their parents






38. People in the process of realizing themselves - The individual is motivated by social needs and feelings of inferiority that arise when the current self does not match the self-ideal






39. It is best used with normal people in search of growth






40. Freud; way in which ego protects self from threatening unconscious material; - repression/denial - rationalization - projection - displacement - reaction formation - compensation - sublimation - identification - undoing - countertransference - dreams






41. People who lack congruence between real selves and conscious self-concept develops psychological tension; incongruence occurs when feelings or experiences are inconsistent with acknowledged of self (e.g. perfect self-concept shaken by any failure)






42. Freud; central force that must find a socially acceptable outlet






43. Fritz Perls - Max Wertheimer - Kurt Koffka






44. Imitating a central figure - such as a parent






45. Carl Rogers - Person centered/Rogerian theory - humanistic --> it has an optimistic outlook on human nature; - individual have an actualizing tendency that directs them out of conflict and toward full potential - best accomplished in atmosphere that






46. Client-centered therapist must maintain positivity regardless of choices - feelings or insights to facilitate a trusting and safe environment






47. Maladaptive cognitions lead to abnormal behaviour or disturbed affect; cognitive triad - types of maladaptive cognitions: arbitrary inference - overgeneralization - magnifying/minimizing - personalizing - dichotomous thinking






48. Unconscious material always looking for a way to discharge repressed emotion






49. Rollo May - individual constantly strives to rise above a simple behavioral existence and toward genuine and meaningful existence






50. Provides tools and experience that client can use to be more assertive