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Erik Erikson - ✔✔-Field: neo-Freudian, humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows
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Erik Erikson - ✔✔-Field: neo-Freudian, humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows
how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves
confronting "Who am I?" Came up with Identity Crisis
Carl Jung - ✔✔-Field: neo-Freudian, analytic psychology; Contributions: people had conscious and
unconscious awareness; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy, not just sexual;
Studies: dream studies/interpretation - AniMA/AniMUS, Shadow=Id, Persona=Mask, Move client toward
Selfhood (Similar to Self-Actualization). (Memory Hint: JA)
Sigmund Freud - ✔✔-Field: psychoanalytic, personality; Contributions: id/ego/superego, reality and
pleasure principles, ego ideal, defense mechanisms (expanded by Anna Freud), psychoanalysis,
transference
Freud's Psychosexual Stages - ✔✔-Oral stage (0-2;Breast) , Anal stage(2-4; Toilet), Phallic stage(4-
6;Oedipus), Latency stage (6-12;Defense Mechanisms), Genital stage (12+;Sexual Maturity) (Memory
Hint: O APL G!)
Oedipus Complex - ✔✔-Feelings of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and sexual desire for the
parent of the other sex, occurring during the phallic stage and ultimately resolved through identification
with the parent of the same sex.
Ego Ideal - ✔✔-Part of the superego that consists of what one would like to be; The superego compares
the ego's actions and will reward or punish the ego accordingly; An overly rewarding or punishing
superego can be detrimental
Abraham Maslow - ✔✔-Field: humanism; Contributions: hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level
(safety and psych) dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied, self-actualization,
transcendence
John Bowlby - ✔✔-British psychologist- said that in order to lead a normal social life the child must bond
to an adult before age 3. Saw bonding and attachment as having survival value (adaptive significance). If
bond is severed at an early age, it is called object loss, which is a breeding ground for abnormal
behavior. Said mothers should be primary caretakers and fathers role is to support mother emotionally
rather than nurturing the child himself. Believes in Birth Order. (Memory Hint: Bowlby, Bonding, Birth
Order)
Jean Piaget - ✔✔-Field: cognition; Contributions: created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development,
said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and
accommodation)
Piaget's Stages - ✔✔-Sensorimotor (0-2), preoperational (2-6), concrete operations(6-11, conservation),
formal operations(11-15, Abstract thinking)
William Perry - ✔✔-He is known for his work in adult cognitive development, specifically with college
students. He worked a lot with the concept of "dualistic thinking" among college students, where
everything is either black or white. (Memory technique: think of Katy Perry's song Hot and Cold to
associate Perry with dualism.)
Lawrence Kohlberg - ✔✔-Field: cognition, moral development; Contributions: created a theory of moral
development that has 3 levels; focuses on moral reasoning rather than overt behavior. Famous Heinz
study (Would you steal meds for mom?)
Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development - ✔✔-pre-conventional (follow rules to avoid punishment,
satisfy personal needs), conventional (Works towards the good of society, Law and Order), post
conventional (Rules are relative, Self-chosen priniciples)
Daniel Levinson - ✔✔-wrote Seasons of a Man's Life and Seasons of a Woman's Life. He viewed midlife
crises as positive things, stating that those who do not face a midlife crisis could become stagnant later
in life- avoiding the crises could lead to a lack of vitality later.
Albert Bandura - ✔✔-Field: sociocultural; Contributions: pioneer in observational learning (social
learning theory), stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-
adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls, children mimicked play. Adult more violent, child
more violent. Think you see someone else's bandana and learn to like it so you want it.
Robert Havinghurst - ✔✔-Believed that adolescence consisted of a series of developmental tasks; the
skills, knowledge, and attitudes which must be acquired at successive points in individual development
(Walk, Talk, Eat Solid Food) (Memory Hint: Having Hurst you i will not walk, talk and eat.)
Lev Vygotsky - ✔✔-Field: child development; Contributions: (Social development theory) investigated
how culture & interpersonal communication guide development, zone of proximal development; play
research
Mary Ainsworth - ✔✔-Field: development; Contributions: compared effects of maternal separation,
devised patterns of attachment; Studies: The Strange Situation-observation of parent/child attachment
Culture - ✔✔-Culture is a shared set of traditions, belief systems, and behaviors and is shaped by many
factors, including history, religion, politics, and resources (financial, informational, technological,
material, energy, warfare, and human).
Types of Culture - ✔✔-Biological Sameness (We all need food), National (Law), Regional (Behavior),
Ecological (Environmental factors - Dress and Eat), Macro (Majority), Micro (Minority)
Race - ✔✔-A group of humans being distinguished by physical traits, blood types, genetic code patterns
or genetically inherited characteristics.
Ethnocentrism - ✔✔-The belief that one's group is of central importance, tendency to judge the
practices of other groups by one's own cultural standards.
Emic vs. Etic - ✔✔-emic is pov of member, etic is pov of outsider
Autoplastic - ✔✔-Implies that the counselor helps the client change to cope with his or her
environment; change comes from within, automatic
Alloplastic - ✔✔-refers to changing or adapting to the environment by effecting changes in the
environment; opposite of autoplastic (also Freud and Hysterical women viewed as autoplastic reactions)
Paralanguage - ✔✔-Vocalic behaviors that communicate meaning along with verbal behavior; Usually
consider more accurate or true than verbal communication.
Low context communication - ✔✔-Type of communication with more direct and explicit expressions of
verbal messages. (Eurocentric)
High context Communication - ✔✔-grounded in the situation, depends on group understanding, relies
heavily on non-verbal cues, helps unify a culture, & is slow to change.
Anglo-conformity theory - ✔✔-Asserts that people from other cultures would do well to forget about
their heritage and try to become like those in the dominant, macroculture
Stages of Acculturation - ✔✔-Cultural integration (Bi-Cultural Identity), Cultural Assimilation (Embraces
only Macro Culture), Separation (Accepts own culture, but not Macro Culture - Would work well with
counselor from same culture in this stage.), Marginalization (Individual does not accept own culture or
macro).
euphoria, culture shock, tentative recovery, and assimilation/adaptation/integration
Milton Erickson - ✔✔-Developed the main tenets of strategic family therapy. Techniques: Storytelling,
Hypnosis, Unconscious confusion
Erikson's Stages of Development - ✔✔-trust vs mistrust (infancy; 0-18mos; Oral), autonomy vs shame
(early childhood; 18mos.-3; Anal), initiative vs guilt (preschool 3-5; Phallic), industry vs inferiority(school
age;6-11; Latent), identity vs role confusion (Adolescence; 12-18; Genital), intimacy vs isolation (Young
Adulthood; 19-40; Genital), generativitiy vs stagnation (Middle Adulthood; 40-65), ego integrity vs
despair (Maturity 65-death)
Freud's Defense Mechanisms - ✔✔-Denial, displacement, projection, repression, regression, reaction
formation, sublimation, rationalization, identification
Identification - ✔✔-Modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful (i.e. abused child
identifies w/ abuser)
Rationalization - ✔✔-Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors
in terms that make them appear acceptable.
Reaction Formation - ✔✔-psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches
unacceptable impulses into their opposites. Thus, people may express feelings that are the opposite of
their anxiety-arousing unconscious feelings. (Gay but dating women every night)
Displacement - ✔✔-Psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward
a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet.
(Kicking the dog)
Machismo - ✔✔-a strong or exaggerated sense of manliness; an assumptive attitude that virility,
courage, strength, and entitlement to dominate are attributes or concomitants of masculinity.
Psychoanalysis - ✔✔-Freud's therapeutic technique; designed to bring repressed feelings and thoughts
to conscious awareness so the person can deal with these issues more effectively; uses free
associations, resistances, dreams, and transference--and the therapist's interpretations of them--
released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.
Psychodynamic - ✔✔-therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as
responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight
(Emphasizes Transference)
REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) - ✔✔-Field: cognitive behavioral therapy, developed by
Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions.
ABC(DE), de-emphasizes spirituality; Can be considered confrontational.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - ✔✔-The goal is the change patterns of thinking or behavior that is behind
a person's difficulty and through this, change the way they feel. Disputes irrational thoughts, reduces
maladaptive behaviors. Based on Beck's Behavioral Therapy
Aaron Beck - ✔✔-Field: cognitive; Contributions: father of Cognitive Therapy, created Beck Scalesdepression inventory, hopelessness scale, suicidal ideation, anxiety inventory, and youth inventories;
Negative Triad, Dichotomous Thinking
Eric Berne - ✔✔-father of Transactional Analysis - who put Freud in everyday lingo with Parent ego
(Superego;filled with shoulds, oughts, and musts to guide morality), Adult (Ego), and Child (Id).
Emphasizes Games; Positive or Negative, Life Scripts
TA Games - ✔✔-a transaction with a concealed motive. Games prevent honest, intimate discussion, and
one player is always left with negative feelings. Games have a predictable outcome as a result of ulterior
transactions. An ulterior transaction occurs when a disguised message is sent.
Crossed Transactions - ✔✔-when vectors from a message sent and a message received do not run
parallel; result in deadlock of communication or host of hurtful feelings (ex. a message from my Adult to
your Adult and your response from your Adult to my Child)
Carl Rogers - ✔✔-Field: humanistic; Contributions: founded person-centered therapy, theory that
emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth;
empathy, unconditional positive regard, genuineness (congruence); Self- Actualization; fully functioning
person.
Self-Actualization - ✔✔-The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the
humanistic view, a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill
health, be fully functioning, have a superior perception of reality, and feel a strong sense of selfacceptance. (Maslow - Full use of Talent)
Reality Therapy - ✔✔-developed by Glasser (Recently Robert Wubbolding); focus is on the present and
felt that people could control life by taking action; stressed the importance of perception; We want love
and acceptance; No Excuses, No Punishment, Never Give Up; BCP -Behavior is the Control of our
Perceptions.
Reality/Choice Therapy 8 Steps - ✔✔-BEEBCEAD
1. Build a good relationship
2. Examine the current behavior
3. Evaluate behavior-helpful or not?
4. Brainstorm alternatives
5. Commit to new plan
6. Evaluate results-no punish/excuses
7. Accept logical & natural consequences
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