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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology

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1. 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)






2. Revolves around philosophical issues particularly the issue of meaning; one`s greatest struggles are being vs. nonbeing - and meaningfulness vs. meaninglessness; will to meaning






3. Treating symptoms rather than underlying problem






4. Emphasizes conscious thought patterns (rather than emotions or behaviours) - interpretation of an experience rather than the experience itself; Beck Depression Inventory






5. Leader of humanistic movement; hierarchy of needs






6. First drugs for psychopathology; - usually to treat positive symptoms of schizophrenia (delusion and hallucination) by blocking dopamine receptors and inhibiting dopamine production (ex. Chlorpromazine (Thorazine®) - and haloperidol (Haldol®))






7. Initially: Freud preferred a topographic model of mental life - Then: Mental life was structural - meaning that mental life has particular organization other than layers (ego - id - superego)

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8. Embracing feelings or behaviours opposite to true threatening feelings one has






9. Donald Meichenbaum - prepares people for foreseeable stressors






10. 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)






11. Inappropriately taking responsibility (e.g. 'our failed project was all my fault')






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






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






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






15. Directed therapy helps expose and restructure maladaptive thought and reasoning patterns - generally short-term - therapist focuses on tangible evidence of client'S logic (what client says and does)






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






17. Joseph Wolpe - applies classical conditioning to relieve anxiety - exposed to increasingly anxiety-provoking stimuli until anxiety is decreased - start from staring at a picture of snake and then eventually holding on






18. Similar to behaviour therapy - addresses how a person thinks - rather than why the thought patterns developed; removing symptoms may not cure problem






19. Channelling threatening drives into acceptable outlets






20. Albert Ellis






21. Pavlov'S classical counterconditioning principles to create new responses to stimuli






22. How a therapist feels about his/her patients; analyst'S transfer of unconscious feelings or wishes (central figures in analyst'S life) onto patient






23. Justifying behaviour/feelings that cause guilt






24. Talking therapy - deep questions relating to perception and meaning of existence






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






26. Sanguine - high in activity and high in social contribution - healthy






27. repressed drives and conflict become manifested in dysfunctional ways - psychic determinism






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






29. The part of mind that contains the unconscious biological drives and wishes - At birth: mental life is composed solely of the id and its biological drives (sex and aggression) - with development - the id also includes unconscious wishes






30. Considered too abstract for severely disturbed individuals






31. Male elements of a female






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






33. Victor Frankl






34. Individual theory






35. 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






36. Ego - id - superego






37. 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






38. Psychodynamic approach in which unconscious feelings do play a role - examination of a person'S lifestyle and choices (motivations - perceptions - goals - and resources)






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






40. Excelling in one area to make up for shortcomings in another






41. Includes elements of cognitive - behavioural - and emotion theory; intertwined thoughts and feelings produce behavior






42. The life instinct - including sex and love






43. Like cognitive and behaviour theory - considered too sterile and mechanistic






44. Client-centered therapist must appreciate rather than just observe client'S perspective






45. Criticized effectiveness of psychotherapy after analyzing studies that indicated psychotherapy was no more successful than no treatment at all; other studies contradict this






46. Ex. phenelzine (Nardil®)






47. Uses operant principle of negative reinforcement to increase anxiety - anxiety-reaction created where there was none; usually to treat addiction and fetishes






48. Use of medication to treat mental illness - do not cure but some are effective at alleviating symptoms; often used with therapy






49. Central to human nature - between different drives vying for expression (particularly conscious and unconscious






50. Methodology - theory developed from single case studies - which is not scientific






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