Current forms of Therapy (e.g., Psychotherapy, Biomedical, Eclectic approaches)
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Psychotherapy:
interactive experience with a trained professional, working on
understanding and changing behavior, thinking, relationships, and emotions
Biomedical Therapies:
use of medications and other procedures acting directly on the body to
reduce the symptoms of mental disorders
, An Ecletic approach: techniques from various forms of therapy to fit the
client's problems, strengths, and preferences
Medications and psychotherapy can be used together
What are culture-bound syndromes?
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Disorders that only seem to exist within certain cultures
Examples:
-Bulimia Nervosa: binging/purging, in the United States
-Running amok: violent outbursts, in Malaysia
-Hikikomori: social withdrawal, in Japan
Aptitude vs Achievement Tests
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Achievement Tests: measure what you already have learned. Examples
include a literacy test, a driver's license exam, and a final exam in a
psychology course.
Aptitude Tests: attempt to predict your ability to learn new skills.
-SAT, ACT predict
your academic
success
Asch Line Studies? Who conducted? What did they show?
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Conformity
Solomon Asch (1951)
What makes you more likely to conform?
-Made to feel
-incompetent/insecure
-No prior commitments
-Group Size
-Unanimity
-Group status
-Your culture encourages respect for norms.
Asch's Line Judgement Task
-pick the line that is the same
-someone will choose the answer if they see other people picking it
Type A vs Type B Behavior and health consequences for Type A
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_Type A_ personality:
impatient,
verbally aggressive,
push themselves and others to achieve
_Type B_ personality:
"Go with the flow"
In one study, heart attacks ONLY struck people with Type A traits
How might therapists work with clients with diverse cultural backgrounds?
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Therapists differ from clients in beliefs, values, cultural background,
conversational style, and personality.
Ways to serve diverse clients
-Therapists should be receptive, respectful, curious, and seek
understanding rather than assuming it.
-Therapist and client do NOT have to have similar backgrounds for effective
therapy and a good therapeutic relationship. It is more important to have
similar ideas about the function and style of therapy.
Types of Memory: Sensory
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Sensory:
-First phase of Encoding and Processing
-the immediate, very _brief_ recording of sensory information before it is
processed into short-term or long-term memory.
Types of Memory: Implicit
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the ones we are not fully aware of and thus don't "declare"/talk about.
Automatic processing: (without our awareness that we are building a
memory) and without processing in working memory.
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Psychotherapy:
interactive experience with a trained professional, working on
understanding and changing behavior, thinking, relationships, and emotions
Biomedical Therapies:
use of medications and other procedures acting directly on the body to
reduce the symptoms of mental disorders
, An Ecletic approach: techniques from various forms of therapy to fit the
client's problems, strengths, and preferences
Medications and psychotherapy can be used together
What are culture-bound syndromes?
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Disorders that only seem to exist within certain cultures
Examples:
-Bulimia Nervosa: binging/purging, in the United States
-Running amok: violent outbursts, in Malaysia
-Hikikomori: social withdrawal, in Japan
Aptitude vs Achievement Tests
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Achievement Tests: measure what you already have learned. Examples
include a literacy test, a driver's license exam, and a final exam in a
psychology course.
Aptitude Tests: attempt to predict your ability to learn new skills.
-SAT, ACT predict
your academic
success
Asch Line Studies? Who conducted? What did they show?
,Give this one a try later!
Conformity
Solomon Asch (1951)
What makes you more likely to conform?
-Made to feel
-incompetent/insecure
-No prior commitments
-Group Size
-Unanimity
-Group status
-Your culture encourages respect for norms.
Asch's Line Judgement Task
-pick the line that is the same
-someone will choose the answer if they see other people picking it
Type A vs Type B Behavior and health consequences for Type A
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_Type A_ personality:
impatient,
verbally aggressive,
push themselves and others to achieve
_Type B_ personality:
"Go with the flow"
In one study, heart attacks ONLY struck people with Type A traits
How might therapists work with clients with diverse cultural backgrounds?
, Give this one a try later!
Therapists differ from clients in beliefs, values, cultural background,
conversational style, and personality.
Ways to serve diverse clients
-Therapists should be receptive, respectful, curious, and seek
understanding rather than assuming it.
-Therapist and client do NOT have to have similar backgrounds for effective
therapy and a good therapeutic relationship. It is more important to have
similar ideas about the function and style of therapy.
Types of Memory: Sensory
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Sensory:
-First phase of Encoding and Processing
-the immediate, very _brief_ recording of sensory information before it is
processed into short-term or long-term memory.
Types of Memory: Implicit
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the ones we are not fully aware of and thus don't "declare"/talk about.
Automatic processing: (without our awareness that we are building a
memory) and without processing in working memory.
