PSY 395 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: X Window System, Twin, Inter-Rater Reliability

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Study sheet: definition and specific elements of a psychological disorder including the limitations of each of these elements as indicators of abnormal behavior. Psychological disorder: behavioral, psychological, or biological dysfunctions that are: 3 parts of the mind: id, ego, superego. Driven by pleasure principle: ego: logical, rational. Defense mechanisms: (ego) unconscious protective processes that keep emotions associated with conflicts in check. Repression: block disturbing or painful wish, thought, or experience from conscious awareness. Displacement: transfer a feeling about or response to, an object that causes discomfort onto another person or object. *regression living in fantasy world because they are unable to deal with thoughts, emotions, etc. of the real world. Hallucinations, delusions: techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy including free association, dream analysis, transference, countertransference, and a description of classical psychoanalysis. Free association individuals says exactly what comes to mind. Dream analysis freud believed that dreams were a place in which our subconscious expressed itself honestly.