Understanding Psychogenic Factors and Deviant Behavior
Understanding Psychogenic Factors
In a first approximation, the behavior disorder is due to inadequate development of the superego. As for these individuals, moral values just have not been learned through experience or by repeated punishments. Generally, they have to suffer or adapt their behavior to group norms, reacting continuously at the mercy of their impulses. A second psychological interpretation of the types of conduct disorder is regarded as attempts to avoid intimate situations or problems
Read MoreUnderstanding Learning: Processes and Concepts
Item 1
Learning: Experience is the key to learning.
Learning by association: Connect naturally occurring events in sequence.
External expertise: The coming of sensation and perception.
Inner experience: The one that comes from the mind and has to do with the way we feel the world.
Projection: defense mechanism that is free from internal and painful emotions put into a person from the outside world.
Additional Series: Genetic predisposition and appropriate experience.
Item 2
Freud: I think there
Read MoreKey Child Development Terms: Definitions and Stages
Key Child Development Terms
Kangaroo Care: Method of skin-to-skin contact in which a newborn is laid face down between the mother’s breasts for an hour or so at a time after birth.
Parturition: The act or process of giving birth.
Temperament: Characteristic disposition or style of approaching and reacting to situations.
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
Disorganized-Disoriented Attachment: Pattern in which an infant, after separation from the primary caregiver, shows contradictory, repetitious, or misdirected
Read MoreAvoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders
F60.6 Avoidant Personality Disorder (301.82)
A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inferiority, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:
- 1. Avoids work or activities that involve significant interpersonal contact because of fear of criticism, disapproval, or rejection.
- 2. Is reluctant to get involved with people unless certain of being liked.
- 3. Shows restraint within
Personality Theories and Human Nature Insights
Personality Theories: A Comprehensive Look
1.6 Strategy
Definition of personality: The pattern of characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that distinguishes one person from another.
Major Personality Theories
- Psychoanalytic Theory: We are motivated by psychosexual forces.
- Id: The dominant force in personality; the deep, inaccessible part of personality that is devoid of values, ethics, and logic.
- Superego: The values of society presented to the child through punishments and rewards.
- Ego: The
Mind-Body Problem: Philosophy and Neuroscience
The Mind-Body Problem: Philosophy and Neuroscience
1.1 Mind, Brain, and Consciousness
Studies in philosophy, biology, and medicine consider humans as a material part of nature. As living organisms, we develop functions that allow us to survive independently: to live, feel, and know through the body. The body is an indispensable tool for us to live.
The Mind: The mind encompasses the set of intelligence activities and human capacity, processing information from the outside world and conducting vital
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