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1. The source of sexual and aggressive energy - Immediate pleasure - Primary process thinking

2. genes, neurological disorders, cognitive, behavioural

3. Statistical rarity - Subjective distress - Impairment - Societal disapproval - biological dysfunction

4. The belief that living in the western world or rectangular rooms, buildings and neighbourhoods and linear perspectives of corridors etc effects the way people process perceptual information.

5. Change in thoughts, feelings or behaviours as a result of real or imagined group pressure

6. The learned, socially transmitted heritage or artefact, knowledge, beliefs, values and normative expectations the provide members of a particular society with the behaviour for coping with reoccurring situations.

7. Learned - Socially transmitted - Heritage - Normative expectations - Recurring situations

8. describe a state in which a person's ideal self and actual experience are consistent or very similar. However, Rogers felt that it was rare for a complete state of congruence to exist and that all people experience a certain amount of incongruence

9. 'Lunatics' and 'idiots' were perceived as dangerous and were imprisoned - human warehouses, cages, chained to walls, tickets sold to public for viewing - widespread through Europe in 15th-16th centtury

10. 106 disorders - post WW2 - disorders decided by clinical consensus

11. Individuals are born positive, capable, worthy - We develop a need for positive regard (liking, respect, warmth) - personality becomes distorted by experiences - 'the seed determines the flower, the environment determines the bloom'

12. Refers to the degree of traditionally masculine values (assertiveness and material dominance) that dominate over feminine values, such as concerns for relationships and quality of life

13. judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture

14. No leadership from authority - Guards were reluctant to impose authority - All participants established an egalitarian social system

15. Fear or anxiety around separation from attachment figure to a degree that is developmentally inappropriate - fear of harm coming to figure/ or loss of figure

16. 'In the drive towards one's potential, we move towards growth, happiness and satisfaction' - Humans = wanting animal, as one desire is satisfied another arises in it's place 1. Self actualisation 2. Esteems 3. Belonging 4. Safety 5. Physiological needs

17. diffusion of responsibility when the presence of others increases

18. True self = the organisms potential actualised | Ideal self = the self concept which the individual would most like to possess | Self image = way we see ourselves

19. supernatural - demonology - angry gods/ evil spirits - Trephination - hole in skill to let demons/ spirits out

20. All behaviour is shaped through the use of rewards and punishments - Personality arises from spontaneous behaviour that is reinforced - Personality is a result of reinforcement history

21. Entrapment - Proximity - Surveillance - Abrogation of responsibility

22. do not have control over the IV

23. the means of samples drawn from the population will form a normal distribution, regardless of the underlying population distribution

24. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders - 265 disorders - re-organised the manual, child disorders intergrated

25. Deliberately contradict the group

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