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Exam 3 Terms (Ch 6, 7, 8)

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Psychoanalysis   The study of the dynamics of the mind developed by Sigmund Freud  
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Analytical Psychology   The study of the personal and collective unconscious developed by Carl Jung  
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Unconscious   The part of the mind outside of conscious awareness  
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Conscious   The part of the mind within our usual awareness  
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Transference   The way the client perceives the therapist  
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Free Association   A psychoanalytic technique involving saying whatever comes into your head  
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Pleasure Principle   The driving force of the unconscious that wants whatever brings pleasure  
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Reality Principle   The goals of the conscious mind, which finds what works in reality  
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Structural Model   Sigmund Freud’s model of the mind with three parts: the id (or “it”), the ego (or “I”), and the super-ego (or “above I”)  
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Cathexis   The attachment of libido to thoughts, objects, or parts of the body  
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Collective Unconscious   Carl Jung’s term for the unconscious archetypes shared by all humans  
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Archetypes   Unconscious psychic structures shared by all people  
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Self   The archetype at the center of the collective unconscious  
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Synchronicity   An acausal connecting principle in which things go together but are not causally linked  
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Moving Toward   Connecting with others as a way of dealing with anxiety  
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Moving Against   Gaining control in a competitive world through exploitativeness and aggressiveness  
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Moving Away   Trying to find peace by avoiding others and escaping conflict  
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Object Relations Theory   A model for understanding individuals by examining how they think about other people  
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Goals   Specific outcomes people desire  
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Motives   The psychological entities that drive us to behave in ways that will help us meet our goals  
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Needs   Something that is necessary to survive or thrive  
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Humanistic Psychology   A branch of psychology focused on the “whole person,” including free will, creativity, and human potential  
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Self-Actualization   The need to actualize or “make actual” your unique talents and abilities  
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Implicit Motives   Unconscious motivations, usually measured with projective tests  
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Projective Measures   Indirect measures  
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Self-Determination Theory   Argues that three needs – autonomy, competence, and relatedness – can explain much of human behavior  
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Intrinsic Goals   Personal growth, affiliation, and community feeling  
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Mindfulness   Being aware of your thoughts and feelings without becoming attached to them  
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Meaning in Life   Having a purpose and putting time and energy into attaining important goals  
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Behaviorism   A branch of psychology that focuses on (relatively) simple explanations for outward behavior and is unconcerned with the inner workings of the mind  
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Operant Conditioning   Shaping behavior through rewards and punishments  
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Shaping   Gradual training that rewards behavior progressively closer to the desired one  
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Reinforcement Schedule   Giving out rewards for good behavior at certain intervals  
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Socialization   How children learn to become mature members of society; also known as acculturation  
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Social Learning   Observational learning that occurs when someone watches others get rewarded or punished for behavior  
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Reciprocal Determinism   The idea that people choose the environments they enter and then change them  
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Expectancies   What someone expects to happen, based on past experiences of what was rewarding  
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External Locus of Control   Believing that events are more a matter of luck and the arbitrary decisions of powerful people  
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Classical Conditioning   Associating two things not normally associated with each other  
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Conditioned Response   The response produced by the conditioned stimulus after classical conditioning (e.g., salivation following the sound of the bell)  
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Generalization   When a conditioned response is elicited in response to things similar to the conditioned stimulus  
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Discrimination   Narrowing the conditions that produce the conditioned response  
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Habituation   Getting used to something in the environment and not responding as strongly anymore  
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Systematic Desensitization   A treatment for phobias that attempts to reduce fear in many small steps by associating the feared thing with calmness  
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