Studied by 3 people
psychodynamic psychology
focus on life experience, connects concious and unconcious mind, how childhood shapes person
unconscious mind
what we are unaware of, defines neurotic behaviour (what we dotn have to think about)
dopamine
hormone responsible for pleasure, reward, motivation, too much or too little leads to disorders
abnormal behaviours
atypical reactions compared to context and culture
Psychoanalytic theory
freuds id, superego, and ego
id
innate desires, pleasure seeking, aggression, sexual impulse
superego
morals, ethics, values, parental senses
ego
common behavioiur
sublimation
defence mechanism; relieving stress in socially acceptable way
Denial
defense mechanism; blocking from awareness
regression
defense mechanism; moving back in psychological time
displacement
defense mechanism; subsition unacceptable (anger issues, ie)
projection
defense mechanism; place worries on someone else
compensation
defense mechanism; over achieve in different field
personality
traits, behaviours, motive
extrovert
energize from social situations
introvert
energize from alone time
cognitive psychology
studies thought, mental process
sensory memory
memories that recieve no attention, last 1/2 of a second. capacity is large and encoding system is sense specific
short-term memory
memory that recieves some attention and lasts 15-30s. capacity can store 5-9 items and encoding is auditory based.
long-term memory
memory is linked in meaningful way and remains for unlimited period. capacity is unlimited.
behavioural psychology
studies what people do and act on, needs empirical evidence to prove
learning
change in knowledge as result of experiment
mental distress
is common and revesible, occurs when put in some stress, is a mild concern, angry upset
mental health problem
significant functional impairment of moderate concern, hopeless grief
mental health disorder
persistent functional impairment of severe concern, depression anxiety diagnosable
ivan pavlov
discovered classical conditioning and conditioned reflex
carl jung
theorized about collective unconcious, and made trait theory of sensation intuition, feeling and thinking
albert bardura
learning by observation, formed cognitive process theory, attention retention reproduction motivation
sigmund freud
developed psychoanalysis (treating mentally ill and theory to explain human behaviour) and developed psychosexual development
psychosexual development
personality development in childhood 5 stages
oral stage PSD
children use mouth for pleasure, around age 0-1
anal stage PSD
children potty train, use bladder and anus for pleasure, age 1-3
phallic stage PSD
children discover genitalia for pleasure, age 3-6
latency stage PSD
sex drive inactive but socializing occurs, age 6-puberty
genital
libido is active and sexual attraction begins, intercourse is goal, begins at puberty
jean piaget
developed theory of cognitive development
cognitive development
childrens intelligence undergoes changes
sensorimotor stage CD
uses senses to discover things, association with feeling, age 0-2
preoperational stage CD
symbolic thinking, grammar begins, imagination is key, age 2-7
concrete operational stage CD
children begin to appreciate concepts, knowledge of permanent, unchangeable things is begun, age 7-11
formal operational stage CD
free thinking occurs, hypothetical thinking can happen, age 11+
Erik erikson
developed psychosocial stages of development
psychosocial development
social awareness and morality in people develops
Trust vs. mistrust
trusting in parents occurs, Birth to 1
Autonomy vs. shame and doubt
prefrences and independance, children feel secure in themselves, 1-3
Initiative vs. guilt
socializing with others typically happens, 3-5
Industry vs. inferiority
children begin comparing themselves to others, 5-12
Identity vs. confusion
children figure out who they are and where they fit in to society, 12-13
Intimacy vs. isolation
people build long term relationships, 18-40
Generativity vs. stagnation
people begin to give to others, 40-65
Integrity vs. despair
people reflect on their life, 65+
classical conditioning
associating something that naturally causes a reaction to something that doesn’t, making that reaction occur on command when the other is displayed
operant conditioning
using reinforcement to control behaviour
observational learning
association based on watching others
phineas gage
rod lodged through frontal cortex, no harmful brain damage but a loss of personality and a growth in anger
charles whitman
brain tumour pressing on amygdala, shot several people
henry molaisen
suffered from seizures, removed hypocampus and amygdala, lost memory of past 11 years and could not make new memories
little albert
classically conditioned baby to be afraid of mouse by associating it with loud noise, failure to decondition the child and passed away at age 6
pavlovs dog
classically conditioned to salivate at sound of bell
b f skinner
discovered operant conditioning
positive reinforcement
adding a factor to increase behaviour
negative reinforcement
removing a factor to increase behaviour
universal emotions
joy, anger, sadness, fear, disgust, surprise
teenage brain
very adaptable
frontal lobe
planning, decision making and speech
parietal lobe
sensory control, behind frontal and above occipital
temporal lobe
auditory, under frontal beside occipital
occipital lobe
vision, back and bottom
thalamus
sensory and motor functions, deep in middle of brain
hypothalamus
regulates temp., thirst, hunger, sleep, 24h clock, mood, and sex drive, below thalamus
amygdala
fight or flight, emotion and fear
hippocampus
learning and memory, under cerebral cortex
pons
transfers data in cerebrum and cerebellum
medula
breathing, heart rate, digestion, sneezing, swallowing
thalamus
what is the grey area?
hypothalamus
what is the green area?
amygdala
what is the purple area?
hippocampus
what is the blue area?
cerebrum
what is the pink area?
cerebellum
what is the orange area?
pons
what is under the purple area?
medula
what is at the bottom of the brainstem?
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