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CHAPTER 1 RESEARCH METHOD

Reliability

  • Test-retest

  • inter-rater: observers look for other behaviors in people, IOA

  • internal consistency- are we seeing consistency from the start to the end of the assessment

Walidity

  • Construct: actually measuring what it is trying to assess

convergent construct: checks if a test correlates well with other measures of the same construct

discriminate constructwhere scores don't correlate with unrelated constructs;

divergent construct: ensures low correlation with measures of different constructs

  • Content: does my meausre cover all the parts I need to cover (eg. all levels of intellegence)

  • Criterion: how well our test are measuring concrete outcome/criterian


Types of Data

  • S data (self-report)— easy to gather but can be subjective/biased

  • I-data (informant)— ask for feedback of someone else; real-world perspective however can still be biased

  • B-data: go out and make assumptions of what they are doing; objective, however, can cause demand characteristics

  • L-data (life data): observable (record, health, education, economic status however does not factor in all the factors (cultural context


Deductive/inductive reasoning

-deductive: general to specific

-inductive: going from specific to general


Difference between characteristics, traits and patterns

5 distinct principles

  1. psychdynamic

  2. humanistic-postive (maslow rogers; positive aspects of human behaviors

  3. dispositional (trait) (allport, identifiying consistent predisopse personality traits that influence behavior across situations; describe the traits rather than the cause)

  4. biological evolutionary

  5. learning/social contive


6 criteria for a useful theory

  1. gerates research

  2. falsifiable

  3. orgaized data and explains knowledge

  4. does it suggest practical solutions to everyday problems _> guides action

  5. internally consistent

  6. simple/parsimonious


Method of test Construction

  • rational- using al existing theories and expert judgment of what the test should assess

  • factor analytic- statistical techniques to identify gorup of items that correlate together

  • wmperiial- select ideas based on how different they are between known groups (depressed vs not depressed)

  • combine approach

represtative sampling

mundane realism

field experiement

experiemental realism

naturalist obervation




CHAPTER 2 FREUD

Preconscious: not yet accessible information, but can be concious


Access Unconcious

  • dream analysis

  • wish fulfillment (symbolic expression), we dream it because it would cause too much anxiety to face it when we are conscious

  • Manifest content: what the dream appears to be about; Surface meaning or the conscious description given by the dreamer

  • Latent content: what the dream was trying to tell you, look at the symbols and see what it means; the unconcious meaning


Transference: Strong, undeserved feelings that the patient develops toward the analyst during the course of treatment


Dream Work:

Condensation: all conflicts come together in one dream symbol

Displacement: a defense mechanism, we take something that bothers us and put it into something else


Insights of the Unconcious

Parapraxis: slip of the tongue of our conscious motives

Humor: truest things are said in jest



Projective test:

  • thematic Apperception test: show an image and have the person interpret it (make up story)

  • Rorschach inkblot test: analyse the blot to interpret feelings


Criticism of Freud

  • excess complexity (not parsimonious)

  • method of data collection is not falsifiable

  • poor operational definitions

  • Overemphasis on sex- psychoanalysis is very time-consuming and costly


Conscience vs ego-ideal

  • conscience: experiences with punishments for improper behavior and tells people what they should not do

  • ego ideal- experiences with rewards for proper behavior and tells people what they should do.


Defense Mechansims

  • respression: threaten by undersirable id so it represses those impulses forcung threatening feelings into the unconcious

  • displacement: people redirect their unacceptable urges onto variety of people or objects so that the origional impulses is disguised or concealed/ can be in dream formation

  • sublimination: repression of the genital aim of eros bu substituting a cultural or social aim/ redirects unacceptable urges into socially acceptable productive behavior (eg. art, athletic competitiveness)

  • projection: reduces anxiety by attributing an unwanted impulse to another person

  • introjection: incorporate positive qualities of another person into their ego

  • regression: returning to ealiear stages in order to protect the ego against anxiety

  • fixation: when psychic energy is blocked at one stage of development thus making change or psychological growth difficult

  • reaction formation: a person represses one impulse and adopts the exact opposite form of behavior



psychsexual development

erogenious zone: area of the body that is particularly sensitive to stimulation; pleasure

  1. oral phase: attempts to gain pleasure through the activity of the mouth

stages of Oedipus complex (success: healthy dependence on others; unsucessful: fixation, adult oral behaviors (smoking excess talkking, dependency, smoking)

  1. Anal phase: bowel and bladder control (success; self control, sense of accomplishment; fixation: anal-retentive (obsessively orgainxed rigid) anal-expulsive (disorganized, reckless) (early anal likes destroying, late anal interest in feces)

  2. phallic stage: sexual identity development; a childs unconcsios desire and rivalry of their parents (success: develop same-sex parent values; fixation: sexual confusion, flirtatiousness, over-assertiveness)

  3. Latency stage: inhibit sexual feelings to focus on other stuff (success: develop communication skills and confidence; fixation: social awkwardness, lack close friendships)

  4. Genital stage: mature sexual intamacy, well-blance personality (success: loving mature sexual relationships and contribute to society; fixation: cause by early stages not resolved- struggle with intamcy, emotionally immature)


Oedipus complex

  • women: devope penis envy, which causes them to resent their mothers and turn to their fathers for the acknowledgement that they can make a boy; they can reject sexuality, embrace masculinity, or develope Oedipus. Resolve looks like leading a weaker super ego

  • Male: rival their father and crave their mothers love and affection; fear losing their penis (castration anxiety), in the end the boy learns fathers rules and forms basic right and wrong

repressed memories


Neurotic symptoms

  • unconcious expressions of unresolved internal conflict






CHAPTER 3 ADLER

Subjective experieences

  • create world view: world safe or dangerous

  • guiding fiction: ideas I will carry with me for my future, what would the future hold

  • lifestyle: everyday activities we performed while pursuing our goals

  • social interest: concerns for others and society, a healthy lifestyle

  • mistaken lifestyle: lacking social interest, exaggerated importance, fail to develope interest in others



Birth Order

  • first- lots of pressure, vulnerable to fear of dethronement, and not

  • second: best case scenerio, strive for superiority; mature toward moderate compet


  • youngest: spoiled, undermines desire to strive

  • only: center of attention


family constellation: dunamic and relationship in the family (borth order, gender of siblinings, age spread between them

Safeguarding

  • excuses: uses reasonable sounding justifications become convince of the reality of selferected obstacles

  • Accusation (aggression): tedency to blame ofthers for ones failure and week revenge

  • depreciation (aggression): tendency to undervalue other peoples achievements and overvalue one’s own

  • Withdrawal: safeguarding through distance (moving backwards (stuck in the past), standing still (taking no action to avoid failture), hesitating (procrastination, its too late now), constructing obstacles (least severe))

Masculine protest

  • The masculine protest is a condition where people overemphasize the importance of being manly.

  • Cultural and social practices, not anatomy, influence the importance placed on being manly.

  • Adler believed that the psychic life of women is essentially the same as that of men


Treatment

  • focus on there current abilities

  • community involvment

  • enhance children social interest by fostering a sense of beloning

  • value human relationships and promote social interest



Critiques of Adler

  • lacks operational definitions

  • lack internal consistency

social interest: barometer of normality; deep concern and welfare for others

Secon



CHAPTER 4 JUNG

Psych: raw material and totality of all psychological processes of your personality including:

  • conscious minf

  • collective consciousness: psychic images sensed by ego (archetypes

  • personal unconscious


Types of Archetypes

  1. Persona

  2. Shadow; first test of courage is to get to know this

  3. Anima: feminine aspect of the male psyche 

  4. Animus: masculine aspect of female psych (Katniss)

  5. Great mother: nurturing but devouring (witch)

  6. Wise old man: sage/mentor figure

  7. Hero: growth and transformations

  8. The Self***: uniting all the oppositional elements into one


Attitudes: orientations of our psychic energy****

  • Introversion: energy flowing inward our inner world; energized by solitude, reflect with themselves first (toward the subjective)

  • extraversion: energy flowing outwards towards the external world; act then refects later (away from their subjective) (widely accepted standards of judgement)


Functions: way of processing information *******

  1. thinking: logical and objective reasoning; true or false

  2. Feeling: what feels best for me; is it good for me or others (rational)

  3. Sensations: direct perceptions, present 

  4. Intuition: perception of possibilities and patterns; potential meaning and future implecation (what can this become) (irrational)


Criticism

  • too spiritual

  • unverifiable archetypes

  • theory is inclear and inconsistent

  • impossible to falsify




irrational fucntions

Monarchic: childhood phase characterize by development of ego and beginning of logical thinking

Complexes: emotionally toned grouping of associated ideas

Instinct: unconcious physical impulse toward action

Progression: iforward flow of psychic energy

Self- center of conciousness

Psychic potential: collective unconcious passed on from one generation to the nexr

primary source of archetypal material : dreams

Conservative pronciple: desire to live in the past


CHAPTER 5 Klein OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY AND MAHLER

OBJECT RELATIONS: interpersonal relations, ***


Believed normal growth can be blocked by basic anxiety cause by needs not being met


Freuds Motivation Theory

  • impetus: amount of fource

  • source: body experiencing tension (erogenous zones)

  • aim: reduce pain, increase pleasure

  • object:  how we are going to satisfy the aim


Phantasies: psychic representations of unconscious id instinct


4 principles of object relations

  1. internalization: mental representation of relationships (parents relationship into friendship and relationships

  2. Projection: unconsciously impose images onto new people (father beahvior —> partner will behave

  3. Repitition: recreate familiar relationship patterns

  4. Integration: health developing realist ???


Themes

  • emphasize on childhood


Types of Anxiety

  • paranoid: infants fear of persecution, hostile world belief, defensive strategies to others before getting hurt by others

  • Depressive: concern for the welfare of loved objects, infants recognize their aggessive impusles can damage or destroy loved ones (insult → make sad); guilt and genuine concerns for others


Attachment theory

  • attachment: connection between us and caregiver, long-term feeling of closeness

  • John bowbly: mother create safe haven and secure (monkey wired and cloth mom) / designed the strange situation paradign to measure attachment

  • Mary ainswork: research-move gets up and leave to see what the child does


Ambivalent-craves intamacy and closeness but worry about rejection

  • 1 year old: upset over separation but not soothed by return

  • 6 year old: shows resistance and hostility upon return 


Mahler***

  • separation individuation

Heinz Kohut

  • replaced the idea of ego with the concept of self and put forth the idea of selfobjects




CHAPTER 6 HORNEY PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIAL THEORY, FEMININE PSYCH

Emphasized consistent patterns of interpersonal relationships and felt that human contact is a prime motivator for behavior



Basic Anxiety

  • basic evil: feeling that the world is untrustworthy and evil →

  • basic hostility: feeling of anger →

  • basic anxiety: fear of being alone and helpless in a hostile world


Neurotic Needs

  • moving towards people (overly compliant)

  • moving against people

  • moving away from people


Neurotic Pride: false pride based on a unrealistic self image stemming off insecurity (eg. bragging about accomplishments to mask insecurity, public validation)


disagreed Penis envy— men have womb envy


CHAPTER 7 ERIKSON POST FREUDIAN THEORY

Psychsocial psychology

empahsised development


li fespan development: the idea that development processes continue throughout life


ego identity: overall sense of self that emerges from transactions with social realities


psychosocial crisis: interpersonal issue dealt by growing or more vulnerability


Stages of Psychosocial Development ORDER AND STRENGTHS

  1. oral sensory— trust vs mistrust; hope 

  2. early childhood muscular anal stage— autonomy vs shame and doubt; will (potty training body control)

  3. Play age/ genitial locomotor mode— initiative vs guilt; purpose (phallic stage

  4. School age latency— industry vs inferiority confusion; competence (latency phase, 

  5. adolescent— identity vs identity confusion; fidelity (genital phase, choose educational path, make everyone happy but can’t)

  6. young adulthood genitality— intimacy vs isolation; love (finding romance, choosing family)

  7. adulthood procreativity— generativity vs stagnation; care (am i making an impact in the world I care about)

  8. old age— interfrity vs despair; wisdom (reflect on life)