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Psycho Theories
Covers psychoanalytic and psychodynamic terms as it relates to the LMSW Exam.
Term | Definition |
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Birth-18 months | According to Erikson, within this age range, a person is in the stage of Trust vs Mistrust |
18 months-3 years | According to Erikson, within this age range, a person is in the stage of Autonomy Vs Shame and Doubt |
3-6 years | According to Erikson, within this age range, a person is in the stage of Initiation vs Guilt |
6-12 years | According to Erikson, within this age range, a person is in the stage of Industry vs Inferiority |
12-20 years | According to Erikson, within this age range, a person is in the stage of Identity vs Role Confusion |
20-40 years | According to Erikson, within this age range, a person is in the stage of Intimacy vs Isolation |
40-65 years | According to Erikson, within this age range, a person is in the stage of Generativity vs Stagnation |
65 | According to Erikson, after this age a person is in the stage of Ego Integrity vs Despair |
Strong Ego Identity | Erikson believed that the absence of this was a major cause of poor adjustment in life. |
Inadequacy | According to Erikson, the lack of managing a stage of development well results in this feeling |
males | Erikson's theory was considered biased because it was more applicable to a certain gender. What was that gender? |
Conflict | According to Erikson, this never ends but rather is re-confronted throughout life. |
Free Association | In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. |
Ego | According to Freud, the decision-making component of personality that operates according to the reality principle. Also known as the "traffic cop". |
Id | A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. Operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification. Also called the "demanding child". |
Superego | The part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations. Also called "the judge". |
Libido | In Psychoanalysis, the sexual and ego drives found in the Id that affect aggression and instinctual behaviors. |
Neurosis | In Psychoanalysis, when the superego imposes guilt on the ego to limit the impulses of the id. |
Ego defense mechanisms | According to Freud, what do people turn to in order to deal with and reduce anxiety? |
Unconscious | Freud believed that most thoughts, drives, instincts, conflicts, motives and feelings were in what dimension of the mind? |
Manifest Latent Dreams | In Psychoanalysis, dreams are composites and symbols derived from recent and remote memories and formed by current feelings. These dreams are called what? |
Manifest Contact | In Psychoanalysis, these are apparent content of a dream |
Latent Content | In Psychoanalysis, this gives a dream its fundament meaning based on emotional reactions of early infancy. |
Dream Work | In Psychoanalysis, this is a process whereby latent dream content becomes apparent. |
Defense Mechanisms | According to Freud, these provide protection against negative feelings associated with painful events. |
Compensation | In Psychoanalysis, this is an activity viewed as rewarding is substituted for one that produces tension. |
Denial | In Psychoanalysis, this is refusing to acknowledge a situation that causes anxiety or distress |
Displacement | In Psychoanalysis, this is when an emotion felt toward a person or object is transferred to a similar person or object |
Projection | In Psychoanalysis, is the assignment of unacceptable thoughts and behaviors found within oneself to another person. |
Rationalization | In Psychoanalysis, this is the process of giving to a socially unacceptable behavior a socially acceptable motive |
Reaction Formation | In Psychoanalysis, this is a defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate. |
Regression | In Psychoanalysis, this is a retreat to an earlier stage of development or behavior pattern. |
Repression | In Psychoanalysis, this is the forcing of painful perceptions, constructs or feelings into the unconscious. |
Sublimation | In Psychoanalysis, this is a defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable impulses toward acceptable goals. |
Suppression | Voluntarily denying unpleasant thoughts and feelings |
Counter Transference | In Psychoanalysis, this is an emotional reaction of the therapist that reflects the therapist's inner needs and conflicts. |
Oral Stage | In Psychoanalysis, A stage of development in which the mouth is the primary source of satisfaction. |
Anal Stage | In Psychoanalysis, A stage of development in which the anus is the primary source of satisfaction. |
Phallic Stage | In Psychoanalysis, A stage of development in which the opposite sex parent is the primary source of satisfaction. |
Latency Stage | In Psychoanalysis, A stage of development in which asexual pursuits (school, friends, sports, etc) are the primary source of satisfaction. |
Genital Stage | In Psychoanalysis, A stage of development in which the genitals are the primary source of satisfaction. |
Birth to 2 years | In the psychosexual stage of development this age range encompasses the oral stage. |
2-3 years | In the psychosexual stage of development this age range encompasses the anal stage. |
3-6 years | In the psychosexual stage of development this age range encompasses the phallic stage. |
6-12 years | In the psychosexual stage of development this age range encompasses the latency stage. |
12 + years | In the psychosexual stage of development this age range encompasses the genital stage. |
Sigmund Freud | The father of psychoanalysis |
Childhood transference | Freud believed that all behavior disorders were rooted in this |
Idealization | Exaggeration of the virtues of another |
False self | A defensive mask that a person shows to the world for the sake of acceptance. |
Mirroring | Understanding plus acceptance |
Self Objects | In psychoanalytic theory, young children view their parents as what? |
Psychodynamic Theory | A theory used to discover the basic wants and fears that keep individuals from acting in a mature way that is based in the interpretation of unconscious impulses. |
Psychic Organization | In Psychoanalysis, human interaction is believed to be rooted in the depth and complexity of what? |
Self Psychology | In Psychoanalysis, the belief that human beings long for appreciation and acceptance from parents lead to strong, self-confident personalities. This is called..... |
Freudian Slip | In Psychoanalysis, this is an unintentional error viewed as revealing subconscious feelings |
Life and Death | In Psychoanalysis, an individual's response to tension between these 2 forces will determine their personality. What are those 2 forces? |
Mirroring and Idealization | In Psychoanalysis, these 2 qualities are essential to creating a secure and cohesive self. What are these 2 qualities? |
Brief Psychodynamic Therapy | The treating of selective disorders within an established time. |
Subconscious | In psychology, this is the part of the mind that is not currently in focal awareness but is accessible. |
Conscious | In psychology, this is the part of the mind that is currently in focal awareness. |
Unconscious | In psychology, this is the part of the mind that is not currently in focal awareness and is inaccessible. |
Individual Psychology | Alfred Adler's theories are collectively known as....... |
Birth Order | In Individual Psychology, Adler was the first person to recognize the significance of children's _______ ________ in their families of origin and its impact on a child's personality. |
Inferiority Complex | In Individual Psychology, Adler coined this term to describe a person's sense of inadequacy. |
Style of Life | In Individual Psychology, by age four or five a _________ ___ _____ is the principle that explains the uniqueness of an individual. |
Teleology | In Individual Psychology, this is the doctrine that there is evidence of purpose or design in the universe, and esp that this provides proof of the existence of a Designer. |
Basic Mistake | In Individual Psychology, these are faulty, self defeating perceptions, attitudes and beliefs that may have been appropriate at one time but are no longer useful. These are myths that are influential in shaping personality. |
Fictional Finalism | In Individual Psychology, this is the notion that an individual is motivated more by his expectation of future than past. |
Insight | In Individual Psychology, this is the special form of self awareness. |
Superiority Complex | To Adler, this was a means of inflating one's self-importance in order to overcome inferiority feelings. |
Organ Inferiority | In Adler's version of psychoanalysis, the idea that people are motivated to succeed in adulthood in order to compensate for whatever they felt, in childhood, was their weakest aspect. |
Aggression Drive | Adler's concept that an individual is driven to lash out against the inability to achieve or master something, as a reaction to perceived helplessness |
Masculine Protest | According to Alfred Adler, an individual's attempt to be competent and independent rather than merely an outgrowth of his or her parents. |
Perfection Striving | According to Alfred Adler, an individual's attempt to reach fictional goals by eliminating his or her perceived flaws. |
Mental Health | In Individual Psychology, this is measured by the degree to which we successfully share with others and are concerned with their welfare. |
Social Relationships | In Individual Psychology, individuals need to be viewed in the context of their....... |
Occupational Tasks | According to Alfred Adler, a fundamental social issue in which one must choose and pursue a career that makes one feel worthwhile. |
Societal Tasks | According to Alfred Adler, a fundamental social issue in which one must create friendships and social networks |
Love Tasks | According to Alfred Adler, the fundamental social issue of finding a suitable life partner. |
Revenge | In Individual Psychology, neglected children look for ______ on society. |
Conform | In Individual Psychology, spoiled children expect society to _______________ to their self-centered needs. |
Medical Model | Individual Psychology is grounded on what other model? |
Symptom Removal | What is the Adlerian therapeutic goal? |
Life Tasks | In Individual Psychology, these are the universal problems in human life, including the tasks of friendship (community), work (a division of labor), and intimacy (love and marriage). Collectively these are called...... |
Anima | According to Analytic Therapy this is the feminine side of men. |
Animus | According to Analytic Therapy, this is the masculine side of women. |
Archetypes | In Jung's theory, the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious. |
Collective Unconscious | According to Carl Jung, this is our shared storehouse of memories that ancestors have passed down to us across generations |
Individuation | According to Analytic Therapy, this is an enhanced sense of individual identity produced by focusing attention on the self, which generally leads people to act carefully and deliberately and in accordance with their sense of propriety and values |
Persona | According to Analytic Theory this is a public mask. |
Shadow | According to Analytic Therapy, this is the negative side of an individual. |
Psyche | Analytical theory deals with the client's directing of the...... |
Reintegration | According to Analytic Therapy, this is the merging of the past and present. |
Personal Conscious | According to Analytic Therapy, this is state of awareness of the present moment. Waking stage |
Karen Horney | She bucked Freud's view of "penis envy" and the "Oedipus complex" in favor of a more feminist view. |
Ten Neurotic Needs | Karen Horney outlined the following as things that people needed to survive. Collectively these things are called...... Affection & Approval Partner who will take over one's life Restrict one's life within narrow borders Power Exploit others Social |
Compliant Type | According to Horney, these are individuals who cope with feelings of basic anxiety by indiscriminately seeking the approval and affection of others through excessive conformity; such individuals move toward people, a trend that protects them against basic |
Aggressive Type | According to Horney, these are individuals who protect themselves against feelings of insecurity by exploiting others in order to feel superior; such individuals just by moving against people, a trend that seeks to control basic anxiety through domination |
Detached Type | According to Horney, these are individuals who protect themselves by continual avoidance of others; such individuals move away from people, a trend that protects the person against basic anxiety by utter detachment and extreme self-sufficiency. |
Compliant Type | According to Horney, people with this type of personality move toward people. |
Aggressive Type | According to Horney, people with this type of personality move against people. |
Detached Type | According to Horney, people with this type of personality move away from people. |
Competitive and driven | According to Horney, people with aggressive personalities are highly........ |
Restricted borders | According to Horney, people with compliant personalities desire to live within......... |
Secretly and solitarily | According to Horney, people with detached personalities operate........ |
Personality | In Individual Psychiatry, this is viewed as being formed by interpersonal relationships and individual has throughout life. |
Infancy | In Individual Psychiatry, there are seven developmental epochs. This is the first. |
Childhood | In Individual Psychiatry, there are seven developmental epochs. This is the second. |
Juvenile | In Individual Psychiatry, there are seven developmental epochs. This is the third. |
Preadolescence | In Individual Psychiatry, there are seven developmental epochs. This is the fourth. |
Early Adolescence | In Individual Psychiatry, there are seven developmental epochs. This is the fifth. |
Late Adolescence | In Individual Psychiatry, there are seven developmental epochs. This is the sixth. |
Adulthood | In Individual Psychiatry, there are seven developmental epochs. This is the last. |
Birth-1 | In Individual Psychiatry, this age range encompasses the developmental epoch of infancy. |
1-5 | In Individual Psychiatry, this age range encompasses the developmental epoch of childhood. |
6-8 | In Individual Psychiatry, this age range encompasses the developmental epoch of juvenile. |
9-12 | In Individual Psychiatry, this age range encompasses the developmental epoch of preadolescence. |
13-17 | In Individual Psychiatry, this age range encompasses the developmental epoch of early adolescence. |
18-23 | In Individual Psychiatry, this age range encompasses the developmental epoch of late adolescence. |
23 up | In Individual Psychiatry, this age range encompasses the developmental epoch of adulthood. |