PSYCH 140 Final

A stable enduring quality that a person shows in most situations.

A style of personality defined by a group of related traits.

A person whose attention is directed outward; a bold outgoing person.

Regarding oneself as a worth while person. A positive evaluation of oneself.

• -Extroversion- how introverted or extroverted one is
• -Agreeableness- how friendly, nurturing, and caring a person is.
• -Conscientious- Self-discipline, responsible, achieving.
• -Openness to Experience- intelligent and open to new ideas.

A system of concepts, assumptions, ideas and principles used to understand and explain personality.

• -Oral Stage- infants - pleasure by mouth
• -The anal stage -age 1 to 3 - determined by how child is toilet trained. (Anal Retentive/expulsive)
• -Latency- To puberty - quiet time in development
• -Genital Stage- activates all of unresolved conflicts of earlier years. (Social sexual relationships)

• Striving for superiority, believed we are social people governed by social urges- not biological instincts
• -Inferiority makes us want to be superior.
• -People create their personality through choices and experiences. (Creative-self)

• Rejected "anatomy is destiny.
• -Challenged males were greater than females
• -Disagreed with causes of neurosis.
• -Basic anxiety comes from someone feeling lost or helpless in a hostile environment.

• -Rejected ego stuff
• -Introversion and extroversion
• -Archetypes are found in collective unconscious.
• -Self archetype is most important.

• -Efficient perception of self reality-honesty
• -Comfortable acceptance of self, others and nature
• -Spontaneously
• -Task centering- mission to fulfill.
• -Anatomy- Independent
• -Continued freshness of appreciation- appreciate goodness of everyday things

Approach that focuses on human experience, problems, potentials and behavior.

• -Free Choice- Ability to choose not controlled by genetics, learning or unconscious forces.
• -Human Nature- Traits , qualities, potentials, and behavior patterns most characteristic of humans
• -Subjective Experience- Private perceptions of reality

Masculine/ Feminine personality.

• An explanation of personality that combines personality principles, cognition, and the effects of social relationships.
• -Actions triggered by an expectancy-response will lead to reinforcement. REINFORCEMENT VALUE

Belief in yourself to produce a desire result.

Praising or rewarding ones self for having made a particular response.

567 True false questions

• -10 standard inkblots
• -detects emotional disturbances.

Test consisting of 20 different stories and real life situations which the respondent make up stories.

• -Enviornment- women who have influenza or rubella during pregnancy, Hostile environments violence and abuse
• Heredity- May inherit the potential to develop schizophrenia - very few schist have kids.
• Brain Chemistry- Disturbances in brain chemicals occur. Related to over activity in brain dopamine systems.

Only sadness, despondency, and depression

People go up and down in moods not just depression.

A person who lacks a conscience, is emotionally shallow, impulsive selfish and manipulative.

• -Free Association- technique - having patient say anything that comes to mind
• -Dream Analysis- analyzing dreams
• -Resistance - A blockage in the flow of free association topics the client resist thinking/talking about.
• -Transference - The tendency of patients to transfer feelings to a therapist that correspond to those the patient had for important person in their past.

• -Psychotherapy is not equally effective for all problems
• -More complex problems can be difficult to solve
• -The most extreme causes may not respond to psychotherapy at all, leaving medical therapy as the only viable treatment options.

• -Intend to help clients gain deeper insight into their thoughts, emotions, and behavior.
• -NOT ACTIONS just insight 

• Therapy that helps clients change thinking patterns that lead to problematic behaviors or emotions.
• -Successfully treats Anxiety, PTSD, Mental Issues, and depression.

Goal-To change irrational beliefs that cause emotional problems.

• -Positive Reinforcement
• -Non reinforcement and Extinction
• -Punishment
• -Shaping
• -Stimulus Control
• -Time Out

• -Pharmacotherapy- use of drugs
• -Electroconclusive therapy - electroshock
• -Psychosurgery therapy - disconnecting frontal lobes from part of the brain.

• -More Therapy-lower cost
• -more short term therapy and solution focused
• -more precise medical therapies with fewer side effects
• -more group therapies and paraprofessionals
• -increase use of internet and phone counseling.