another psych thing

Free association: say everything that comes to mind without hesitation

Dream analysis: analyze the manifest and latent content of dreams

Manifest content: seen message in dream

Latent content: hidden messages in dream

Humanistic therapies: focuses on building patients self-fulfillment via growth in self-awareness and self-acceptance 

Client or person centered therapy: techniques include active listening, accepting environment, focusing on patient growth (humanistic)

Behaviorist therapy: focuses on how people interact with their environment

Counterconditioning: changing an emotional response, feeling, or attitude toward a stimulus (Little albert-behaviorist)

Systematic Desensitization: associate a pleasant relaxed state w/ gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli (desensitization hierarchy-behaviorist)

Aversive conditioning: associate an unpleasant experience with an unwanted behavior (behaviorist)

Cognitive therapies: challenges negative thought processes 

Cognitive behavioral therapy: changing illogical thinking patterns- most common (cognitive)

Rational emotive behavior therapy: Ellis, analyzing self-defeating behaviors to change thought patterns, then behaviors associated with said thought patterns (cognitive)

Antipsychotic drugs: decrease dopamine, treat schizophrenia- may cause hand tremors, worsening of negative symptoms, and extreme sedation (thorazine, clozapine)

Antidepressants: increase serotonin through reuptake inhibition- may cause drowsiness, anxiety, and suicide risk (SSRI, SNRI)

Antianxiety drugs: depress the central nervous system (xanax, ativan)

Mere exposure effect: repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them

Door in the face: a large request is turned down, leads you to be more likely to comply to small request

Attribution theory: we explain the behavior of others by crediting either the situation or their disposition 

Social facilitation: perform better on simple or well known tasks in the presence of others

Social loafing: tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their effort together

Deindividuation: loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity 

Stanley Milgram: studies on obedience, having participants “shock” another with increasing voltage

Solomon Asch: studies on conformity, asking participants the matching lines based on length

Phillip Zimbardo: social situations influencing people's behavior, Stanford prison experiment