PSY 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Therapy
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Paradigm: set of shared assumptions that includes both the substance of a theory and beliefs about how scientists should collect data and test hypotheses. Biopsychosocial model: effort to integrate evidence on these broad contributions to mental disorder. Psychoanalytic theory: refers specifically to frauds theorizing divided mind into 3 parts: Id: present at birth and houses biological drives such as hunger / psychological drives (sex and aggressions) pleasure principle. Ego: part of personality that must deal with the realities of the world as it attempts to fulfill id impulses as well as preform other functions reality principle. Superego: conscience, contains societal standard of behavior moral anxiety (conflict between superego and ego) / neurotic anxiety (conflict between id and ego) Defense mechanisms (29): unconscious self deceptions that reduce conscious anxiety by distorting anxiety producing memories, emotions, and impulses. Psychosexual development: different stages of child development are defined by sexual conflicts. Cognitive behavioral paradigm: views abnormal behavior as the product of learning.
