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DEVELOPMENT PERSONALITY MOTIVATION AND
• DEFINITIONS CONTINUED EMOTION
1. Learning - influence of experience (nurture) 2. Psychosexual development • MOTIVATION - need or desire to act a certain
2. Maturation - unfolding of biological patterns (nature) a. Oral stage (0-1) - sucking, feeding, etc. way to achieve a goal
3. Critical Periods - early development periods during b. Anal stage (2-3) - defecation 1. Range of motives
which particular early experiences are essential c. Phallic stage (3-5) - sexual attraction to the opposite a. Physiological - hunger, thirst, pain avoidance
4. Stages - organization of behaviors and thoughts sex parent produces the Oedipus complex b. Social - learned
d. Latency period (5-puberty) - sexual feelings c. Maslow - motives organized in a hierarchy of needs -
during particular early periods of development - forgotten; child concentrates on skill development
defined by relatively abrupt change physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem,
e. Genital stage - adult sexual relationships
self-actualization
• COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 3. Anxiety - unjustified fears resolved by ego through
2. Motivational system - set of motives and
1. Piaget use of defense mechanisms
a. Assimilation - fit new information into what is known a. Repression - active exclusion of unconscious behaviors that operate in a particular life area
b. Accommodation - change existing beliefs in impulses from consciousness a. Hunger and eating
b. Projection - attribute to others our thoughts and feelings i. Hunger signals - stomach contractions, hypothalamus,
response to new knowledge
c. Reaction formation - behavior patterns opposite to environment
c. Stages of development
i. Sensory-motor stage (birth - 2) - object permanence our anxiety producing urges ii. Food preferences - cultural, personal and biological
ii. Preoperational stage (2-7) - use of symbols and d. Displacement - redirects anxiety producing origins
language; egocentric; lack the principles of conservation behaviors to a more acceptable target b. Sexual motivation - hormones
iii. Concrete operational stage (7-11) - understand e. Rationalization - substitute “good” reasons for real c. Work
conservation, identity, grounded in concrete experiences reasons for behavior i. Extrinsic motivation - working for external reward
iv. Formal operations stage (12-adult) - abstract reasoning 4. Defense Mechanisms ii. Intrinsic motivation - working for pleasure of activity
a. Denial - the refusal to acknowledge an external itself
2. Language development - acquisition depends on
source of anxiety 3. Maslow’s hierarchy of motivations
biological readiness and experience b. Fantasy - utilizing imagination to satisfy desires that
a. In the hierarchy of needs, the needs at each level must
• SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT are, in reality, highly unlikely (e.g., sexually
be satisfied before going on to the next level
1. Attachment - emotional tie between infant and fantasizing about a celebrity)
c. Intellectualization - the repression of the emotional b. The hierarchy of needs
caretaker (Harlow’s monkey studies) i. Physiological needs - food, water, sex, and shelter
2. Sex typing - learning “masculine” or “feminine” component of an anxiety-provoking event; the event
is treated in a purely analytical manner ii. Safety needs - security needs
a. Identification with the same sex parent iii.Belongingness and love needs - acceptance and
d. Regression - resorting to infantile behaviors as a
b. Rewards and punishments for sex appropriate behavior friendship
method for avoiding anxiety and/or responsibility
3. Erikson’s stages e. Identification - identifying with the anxiety- iv. Esteem needs - self-esteem, and esteem from others
a. Trust Versus Mistrust: 0 – 2 years of age producing stimulus in an attempt to reduce one’s own v. Self-actualization needs - realizing one’s potential as a
b. Autonomy Versus Doubt and Shame: 2- 3 years of age anxiety (opposite of projection) creative, productive person
c. Initiative Versus Guilt: 3 – 6 years of age f. Overcompensation - an attempt to conceal perceived • EMOTION
d. Industry Versus Inferiority: 6 – 11 years of age deficiencies in one area by excelling in another; e.g.,
1. Defining features of emotions - subjective
• MORAL DEVELOPMENT - Kohlberg a student with poor academic performance becomes
an excellent athlete experience, physiological arousal, expressive
Theory: g. Sublimation - the re-channeling of sexual or behavior, changes in cognition
1. Preconventional morality - obey because ordered aggressive impulses in a socially acceptable 2. Inborn - people from different cultural
to or will be punished direction; e.g., an aggressive person becomes a backgrounds can identify emotions
2. Conventional morality - based on trust, loyalty or professional boxer 3. James-Lange Theory - emotion is a result of a
understanding social order • HUMANISTIC THEORIES - people are perception of bodily changes and behaviors
3. Postconventional morality - laws are situational rational, capable of choice and desire to 4. Cannon-Bard Theory - emotion is a result of
and can be changed achieve personal growth perception of a stimulus which causes both
• CHRONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT 1. Carl Rogers - self-concept directs behavior, physiological changes and subjective feelings
1. Newborn Child conflict between real and ideal self 5. Cognitive Labeling Theory - emotion is a result of
a. Reflexes - automatic behaviors, rooting, sucking, 2. Abraham Maslow - individual strives for self-
the interpretation of the causes of physiological
swallowing, startle, etc. actualization - fulfillment of potential
arousal
b. Vision - nearsighted, interested in novelty • EXISTENTIAL PSYCHODYNAMICS
1. Yalom - primary drive of the individual is to derive 6. Frustration-aggression hypothesis - aggression
c. Social skills
i. Smile at 4-6 weeks in response to faces meaning from the complexities of their life results from blocking of efforts to achieve a goal
ii. Rhythmic "conversations" experiences; to understand a structure, rationale, or
2. Adolescence justification to the events they have experienced;
a. Biological development - increased hormone failing this, life is seen as absurd and pointless, leading
to despair, depression, and existential crises; the
CONSCIOUSNESS
production; sex organs mature; growth spurt
b. Intellectual development - formal operational primary concerns of this approach to psychotherapy • JAYNES’ THEORY
(abstract reasoning), independence, questioning deal with confronting the issues of death, freedom, 1. Consciousness not only evolves neurobiologically,
3. Aging existential isolation, and meaninglessness but is also formed by the individual’s interactions
a. Transition Theories - unanticipated, anticipated, • SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY - how and with culture
nonevent, chronic hassle under what situations thoughts and behaviors 2. The foundation of consciousness is based in the
b. Major Milestones - starting out, marriage or living are learned
alone, parenthood, empty nest, midlife crises, physiology of the brain’s left and right hemispheres;
• CONSISTENCY IN PERSONALITY
retirement, widowhood 1. Trait - relatively enduring quality or characteristic there are three fundamental forms of human
2. Cross-situational - most central to self-concept awareness that are the outcome of this process:
• PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT a. Bicameral - controlled by right hemisphere of brain,
PERSONALITY 1. Assessment methods must be: which dominates left-hemisphere activity; individual
a. Reliable - same results over time subordinates consciousness of self to control by a
Distinctive patterns of behavior, thoughts and b. Valid - measure what it is supposed to measure group, a higher power, or other individual
emotions that characterize individual's 2. Interview
b. Modern - the dominance of the right brain
patterns of adaptation a. Advantage - tailored to individual's previous answers
b. Disadvantage - low reliability hemisphere over the left is weakened as civilization
• THE ORIGINS OF PERSONALITY
3. Observation develops and humans become more autonomous and
1. Biological and genetic influences
a. times particular behavior occurs independent; as humans become more independent,
2. Experience - cultural and unique b. Good reliability
3. Stability and change individual consciousness emerges
4. Self-report c. Throwbacks to bicamerality - the re-emergence of
a. Genetic characteristics relatively stable through life a. MMPI - to diagnose psychological disorders
b. Less active, hostile and impulsive with age b. Ten primary scales measure personality dimensions bicameral consciousness in modern life is manifested
c. Personality changes as a result of life experiences 5. Projective techniques - individual provides an by episodes of schizophrenia, hypnosis and poetic
• FREUD interpretation of ambiguous material and religious frenzy
1. Personality consists of three parts a. Rorschach inkblots • SLEEP RHYTHMS
a. Id - basic biological urges; unconscious b. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
b. Ego - gratifies urges within acceptable bounds; conscious c. Concerns about reliability and validity since 1. REM - rapid eye movements associated with
c. Superego - values and ideals of society; conscience interpretations are subjective dreaming
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CONSCIOUSNESS ABNORMAL TREATMENT AND
CONTINUED BEHAVIOR THERAPY CONTINUED
2. Stages of brain waves • TYPES c. Implosion - client required to imagine the anxiety-
a. Alpha Waves - regular, high-amplitude, low 1. Statistical deviation producing stimulus in its most vivid and extreme
frequency wave 2. Violation of cultural standards manifestation; client experiences full anxiety
b. Stage 1 - small, irregular brain waves, light sleep response without suffering any harm; consequently,
3. Maladaptive behavior
the stimulus no longer elicits anxiety due to
c. Stage 2 - bursts of sleep spindles 4. Emotional distress extinction of the response
d. Stage 3 - delta waves; deep sleep 5. Legal (impaired judgment and lack of self-control) d. Flooding - same procedure and theory as implosion,
e. Stage 4 - extremely deep sleep • ANXIETY DISORDERS but real or realistically depicted stimuli are used
f. Entire cycle is 30-45 minutes and then reverses 1. Generalized anxiety disorder - chronic anxiety instead of imaginary ones
• WAKEFULNESS 2. Phobia - fear of specific situation, activity or thing 3. Cognitive therapy - to correct unrealistic thinking
1. Conscious processes 3. Obsessive-compulsive disorder 4. Humanistic therapy
2. Subconscious processes - can be brought into a. Obsessions - recurrent thoughts a. Client-centered - Carl Rogers
consciousness when necessary b. Compulsions - repetitive behaviors i. build self esteem
3. Nonconscious processes - remain outside • MOOD DISORDERS - (depression & mania) ii. critical qualities of the therapist - warm, genuine and
awareness but influence behavior honest
1. Causes b. Gestalt - Frederick Perls - self-actualization
• ALTERED STATES a. Biological (brain chemistry)
1. Meditation - eliminate distracting thoughts 5. Family and Group therapies - theorize that
b. Social (life situations)
2. Psychoactive drugs - influence perception, problems develop in a social context and must be
c. Attachment (disturbed relationships)
thinking or behavior dealt with in that context
d. Cognitive (maladaptive thoughts)
a. Stimulants - speed up nervous system activity - • PERSONALITY DISORDERS • EVALUATING THERAPIES
cocaine, amphetamines 1. Therapies are less effective with serious disorders
1. Paranoid - excessive suspiciousness
b. Depressants - slow central nervous system activity - 2. Relationship between client and therapist is critical
2. Narcissistic - exaggerated sense of self-importance
alcohol, tranquilizers 3. Certain therapies are effective for certain specific
3. Antisocial - lack of social emotions
c. Opiates - relieve pain and produce euphoria - opium, problems
• DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS - amnesia,
morphine, heroin • MEDICAL TREATMENTS
multiple personality 1. Advantages of Medical Model - promotes a more
d. Psychedelic drugs - alter consciousness - LSD,
mescaline
• SOMOTOFORM DISORDERS - take the humane understanding of patients; aids in the
3. Hypnosis - heightened state of suggestibility when form of physical disorders understanding of some organic mental disorders
subjects can sometimes control unconscious body • PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS and further initiates research in brain function
functions 1. Schizophrenia - bizarre delusions, hallucinations, 2. Disadvantages of Medical Model - environmental
4. Weil’s Theory severe emotional problems, withdrawal variables are unduly minimized or neglected;
a. Humans have an innate drive to experience states of a. Family dynamics - distorted patterns of communication diagnostic and treatment methods are questionable,
non-ordinary consciousness b. Biological - brain disease(s) or abnormalities in thus fostering an institutionalization syndrome; this
b. Individuals and cultures experiment with ways to neurotransmitters approach removes responsibility for recovery from
change their ordinary states of consciousness c. Stress - combination of heredity and stress the patient while promoting a dependence upon
c. Altered states of consciousness are common; e.g., 2. Organic brain disorders - i.e. diseases, brain injury hospitals and chemicals
daydreaming, sleeping, etc • VIEWS ON THE REALITY OF MENTAL • BEHAVIORISM
d. Individuals often are unaware they are in the midst of ILLNESS 1. Cognitive components to behavior (e.g.,
an experience of non-ordinary consciousness; e.g., 1. Szasz’s Objection - the concept of "mental illness" expectations, verbalization, imitation etc.) are
daydreams, or alcoholic ‘black-out’ episodes is a socially constructed myth for the purpose of unduly minimized or ignored
e. Altered states of consciousness form a continuum or advancing certain social and political agenda; 2. Overly operationalistic - physical correlates are
spectrum ranging from normal, alert, waking clinical psychology is an instrument of repression to closely identified with mental states (e.g., fear is
consciousness to sensory deprivation, to coma enforce conformity and stigmatize non-conformists identified with the physiological manifestations of
f. Psychotropic and psychedelic drugs do not cause as "deviant" people with the label "mentally ill" anxiety); overlooks the possibility that the
altered states of consciousness—they are merely a 2. Reznek’s Definition - something is a mental interpretation of observable physical symptoms can
way to elicit such states illness if, and only if, it is an abnormal* and determine their reality; for instance, the physiological
g. Understanding the mechanisms of altered states of involuntary process that does mental harm and correlates of anxiety may be interpreted as fear,
consciousness can be an avenue to greater should best be treated by medical means excitement, anger, or sexual arousal depending upon
understanding of the nervous system; furthermore, prior expectations, cultural values etc
*Note - "abnormal" is used in the constructivist or
such knowledge may lead to the discovery of 3. Ignores the role played by intervening inferred
normative sense, and not in the statistical or
untapped human potential and a better understanding cognitive variables
idealistic sense, as "normal" is a relative term
of ordinary waking consciousness determined by society • COGNITIVE BEHAVIORISM
1. Difficult to avoid circular definitions in invoking
the meaning of certain mental constructs
2. Difficult to determine what extent to allow
U.S. $4.95 Can. $7.50 TREATMENT AND decreasingly operationalizable mental entities
THERAPY 3. The role of psychosomatic variables may be
NOTE TO STUDENT: This QUICKSTUDY® guide is an outline of the major topics overlooked or minimized
taught in introductory Psychology courses. Due to its condensed format, use it as a • MEDICAL TREATMENTS
Psychology guide, but not as a replacement for assigned class work.
1. Antipsychotic drugs (major tranquilizers) - 4. Some argue that the underlying cause of observable
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2. Antidepressant drugs (stimulants) - mood
behaviorism only seem effective in the treatment of
disorders
ISBN-13: 978-142320215-8 very specific disorders; e.g., phobias, specific
ISBN-10: 142320215-5 3. Surgery - to destroy brain areas believed
undesirable behaviors; cannot effectively be applied
responsible for emotional disorders
to amorphous problems such as undifferentiated
4. Electroconvulsive therapy - induces seizures used existential depression
to treat major depression
• PSYCHOANALYSIS
• PSYCHOTHERAPY 1. Freud’s initial theory based only on case studies
1. Psychodynamic (insight) therapies - explore the and anecdotal evidence, and a patient population
hundreds of titles at unconscious dynamics of personality which was very limited, atypical, and selective
quickstudy.com a. Freud - 2. Postulates entities that are by definition
i. Understanding past produces insight unobservable and cannot be operationalized for
ii. Free association and transference
valid scientific evaluation
b. Neo-Freudians - use Freud’s techniques, usually time
3. Psychoanalysis has been demonstrated (by Eysenck)
limited
to be ineffective in treating emotional disorders
2. Behavioral therapies
4. In reaction to criticism and undermining evidence
a. Systematic desensitization - exposure to a hierarchy
against their theory, Neo-Freudians have modified
of stimuli while relaxing to decrease fears
b. Aversive conditioning - punishment for unwanted their theory with post-hoc hypotheses to the point that
behavior it is no longer scientifically testable even in principle
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