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NCE
NCE Terms
Term | Definition |
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Psychodiagnostic | The study of personality through interpretation of behavior or nonverbal cues. A counselor may use the aforementioned factors or tests to label the client in a diagnostic category. |
Milton H. Erickson | Associated with brief psychotherapy and innovative techniques in hypnosis. |
Jay Haley | His work includes strategic and problem solving therapy, often uses paradox. Influenced by Milton H. Erickson. |
Arnold Lazarus | Pioneer in behavior therapy movement, especially in systematic desensitization. Associated with multimodal therapy. |
William Perry | Known for his ideas in adult cognitive development, especially college students. Came up with Dualistic thinking and Relativistic Thinking. |
Dualistic Thinking | Concept developed by William Perry by which things are classified as good or bad, right or wrong. In other words, black or white thinking. |
Relativistic Thinking | Not everything is right or wrong, it depends on the situation. There is more than one way to view the world. Higher order thinking than dualistic thinking, and should occur in adulthood. |
Robert Kegan | His model stresses interpersonal development, is billed as a constructive model of development, meaning an individual constructs reality throughout the entire life span. |
Who made the following statement, “The ego is dependent on the Id”? | Freud |
What is a common criticism of Jean Piaget's findings? | His findings were often based on his own children. |
Schema | Piaget’s term for a system which permits the child to test out things in the physical world. |
In children, which concept is the most easily understood, volume or mass? | Piaget’s term for a system which permits the child to test out things in the physical world. |
In children, which concept is the most easily understood, volume or mass? | Mass. Volume comes later, usually in Piaget's Concrete Operations Stage. |
Lev Vygotsky | Felt development stages unfold due to educational intervention. Coined the term Zone of Proximal Development, which describes the difference between a child’s performance without a teacher verses that which he or she is capable of with an instructor. |
John B. Watson | Father of American Behaviorism. |
Epigenetic | Biological term, each stage emerges from the one before it. |
Lawrence Kolhberg | Focused on Moral Development. Stated there are there levels, each divided into two stages. His levels: Preconventional, Conventional, and Post Conventional. Only 40% of people enter into the Post Conventional Stage in life. |
Menninger Clinic of Kansas | Psychoanalytic foothold, conducted landmark work in biofeedback. |
Biofeedback | Technique to help individuals learn to control bodily processes more effectively. |
RS | Means Religious and Spiritual in our field. |
Identity Crisis | Coined by Erikson, where a person suffers from knowing who they are and what they want to do. People may experience this in his stages |
Harry Stack Sullivan | Created the psychiatry of interpersonal relations. The stages: infancy, childhood, the juvenile era, preadolescence, early adolescence, and late adolescence. Biological issues are less important than interpersonal and sociocultural demands of society. |
Hedonism (or native hedonism) | Occurs in the second stage of the Preconventional level of Kohlberg’s moral developmental theory, where a child states, “If I am nice to others, I will get what I want”. |