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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology

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1. Child clients; during play a child may convey emotions - situations - or disturbances conveyed might otherwise go unexpressed






2. Individual theory






3. Albert Ellis






4. Client-centered therapist should speak and act genuinely - not maintain a professional reserve (feelings and experiences of the therapist should match)






5. 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)






6. Proved experimentally that abnormal behaviour can be learned






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






8. The life instinct - including sex and love






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






10. In psychotherapy - in reaction to psychoanalysis and behavioralism






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






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






13. To provide relief from symptoms of psychopathology






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






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






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






17. 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






18. Alfred Adler - Adlerian theory - people are viewed as creative - social and whole as opposed to Freud'S more negative and structural approach - process of becoming - Healthy individuals: --> peruse goals in spite of feelings of interiority - --> has






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






20. Tricyclic chemical structure; ex. amitriptyline (Elavil®)






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






22. Phlegmatic - low in activity and high in social contribution - dependent






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






24. 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






25. Drugs that take away symptoms do not provide interpersonal support






26. Uses social learning principles - exposes client to more adaptive behaviors






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






28. Ex. phenelzine (Nardil®)






29. 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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30. When the therapist uses the patient'S transference to help him/her resolve problems that were the result of previous relationship by correcting the emotional experience in the therapist-patient relationship






31. Fritz Perls - Max Wertheimer - Kurt Koffka






32. Mistaking isolated incidents for the norm (e.g. 'no one will ever want to be with me')






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






34. Considered too abstract for severely disturbed individuals






35. Not allowing threatening material into awareness






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






37. Individual'S mental life consists of a constant push-pull between the competing forces of the id - superego and environment. - each areas struggles for acknowledgement and expression - how well a persons' ego handles this determines his mental health






38. Jean Charcot and Pierre Janet






39. Treating symptoms rather than underlying problem






40. 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






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






42. Encourage people to stand apart from beliefs - biases and attitudes derived from the past - goal is to fully experience and perceive the present in order to become a while and integrated person






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






44. Negative views about the self - the world - and the future; causes depression






45. No use of diagnostic tools because Rogers believed client-centered therapy applied to any problem






46. Jung - universally meaningful concepts - passed through collective unconscious; - allow us to organize experiences with consistent themes and indicated by cross-cultural similarity in symbols - folklore - myths; - Common archetypes: persona - shadow






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






48. 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






49. People work their way up hierarchy toward self-actualization by satisfying needs at the previous level: physiological needs - hunger - thirst - shelter - warmth - safety - security - stability - lack of fear - belonging - love - acceptance - esteem -






50. Conscious elements were openly acknowledged forces and unconscious elements (drives and wishes) were many layers below consciousness - Freud'S greatest contribution to psychology