01:830:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Developmental Psychopathology, Psychoanalysis, Cognitive Therapy
Document Summary
Brain pathology - medication - adjust transmitter levels. Unconscious processes - psychoanalytic therapy: bring into conscious awareness. Learning history - behavioral therapy - break learned associations. Maladaptive thought processes - cognitive therapy - change interpretation of events. Marriage and family therapists and mental health counselors. Rationalization - conceals true motivations for actions, thoughts, and feelings. Reaction formation - substitutes behavior, thoughts, or feelings that are the opposite. Repression - blocks disturbing wishes, thoughts or experiences. Sublimation - directs potentially maladaptive feelings or impulses into socially acceptable. Denial - refuses to acknowledge some aspect of objective reality or subjective experience. Displacement - transfers a feeling onto something less threatening. Projection - falsely attributes own unacceptable feelings to another object. Unconditioned stimulus - will lead to a response, unconditioned response every time. What happens as a consequence of the behavior determines the likelihood it is repeated. Positive or negative - positive = adding ingredient into the mix, negative = taking ingredient out.
