Exam 3

Wisdom from chapter 6

6 To flourish, motivation needs supportive conditions, especially supportive relationships.

Wisdom from chapter 7

7 Implicit(unconscious) motives predict better than do explicit(conscious) moties.

Wisdom from chapter 8

8 We do not do our best when we "try to do our best"; rather, we do our best when we have a specific action plan to pursue a difficult, specific, and self-congruent goal.

actualization tendency

A innate continual presence that quietly guides the individual toward genetically determined potentials

The impact of using suppression on thoughts

A lesson that we have less control over our thoughts than we admit, thoughts and emotions can be suppressed for only a while.

The consensus among humanistic psychologists regarding "the problem of evil"

A person needs a value system (standards of right and wrong) to support and complement the organismic valuing process.

Humanistic Psychology

About discovering human potential and encouraging its development

Organismic Valuing

An inherent capacity to judge for oneself whether a specific experience promotes or interferes with growth

The research results on the proportion of mental life that is unconscious

Much of mental life is unconscious

4 levels of defense mechanisms

Pathological, immature, neurotic, mature

The 3 chief dimensions of the quality of one's mental representations of relationships according to object relationship theory

Unconscious tone, capacity for emotional involvement mutuality of autonomy of others

The term Carl Rogers preferred instead of "teacher"

facilitator

The impact of a therapeutic strategy called the "hot seat technique"

feeling burned out and helples

Research on the effectiveness of subliminal marketing

found that the audiotapes didn't work.Those subliminal messages were not processed in a way that affected thoughts or behaviors.

The adaptive unconscious

highly skilled at appraising the environment, setting goals, making judgments, and initiating action, and it can do all these things even while we are consciously thinking about something else.

eros manifestations

life instincts--instincts maintain life and ensure individual and collective (species) survival. Thus, instincts for food, water, air, sleep, and the like all contribute to the life and survival of the individual.

The result of the research on use of immature defense mechanisms and depression

predicted a poor response to brief therapies

implicit motivation

refers to all those motives, emotions, attitudes, and judgments that operate outside a person's conscious awareness and that are fundamentally distinct from self-report motives, emotions, attitudes, and judgments

eudaimonic well-being

seeking out challenges, exerting effort, being fully engaged and experiencing flow in what one is doing, acting on one's true values, and feeling fully alive and authentic

The basic purpose of dreaming according to Freud

to provide an opportunity for accessing the unconscious.

The subject matter and the primary goal of psychoanalysis/psychoanalytic therapy

to understand the confusing activities of the unconscious and therefore free the ego to deal with reality.

The core principles that organize contemporary psychodynamic theory

unconscious, psychodynamic, ego development, objects relations theory.

Seeking well-being

the experience of positive affect, the absence of problems and negative affect, and a judgment of life satisfaction

Manifest content of dream analysis

the storyline of the dream.

Wisdom from chapter 15

15 Encouraging growth is more productive than is trying to cure weakness

Wisdom from chapter 2

2 What we don't know about motivation and emotions exceeds what we do know.

Wisdom from chapter 12

12 All emotions are good: all emotions serve a functional purpose.

The theoretical approaches to therapy that are consistent with a humanistic approach to motivation

Autonomy causality orientation.

The necessary questions use to determine readiness to design a state-of-the-art intervention related to motivation and emotion

Can you explain why people do what they do? Can you predict in advance how conditions will affect motivation and emotion? Can you apply motivational principles to clove practical outcomes?

Repression

Forgetting an by ways that are unconscious and automatic

positive conditional regard

Giving love and affection for obedience and achievement. Here, parents provide more attention and more affection when the child acts as told. When the child cleans her room and makes good grades, parents pour on the attention and affection.

l The positive psychotherapy exercises related to increasing subjective well-being (happiness exercises) AND of these, the exercise that is most effective in increasing happiness and decreasing depression

Gratitude visit and meditation

Unconditional Positive Regard (Rogers)

If parents approve of, love, and accept their child for who she naturally is

The main take home point from the list of experimental manipulations from 14 of the chapters about the student of motivation and emotion

Is that motivation and emotion are malleable and can be changed and strengthened.

Which behavior problems children with unsophisticated emotion knowledge are at risk of developing

Maladaptive behavioral problems

Growth needs as described by Maslow

Relationships— intimate and fulfilling relationships rather than the all-too-common superficial ones—as the soil for cultivating peak experiences.

Suppression

Removing a thought from attention by ways that are conscious and intentional

Positive Psychology

Seeks to build people's strengths and competencies( IT seeks to articulate the vision of the good life and it uses empirical methods to understand what makes life worth living)

Intervention

Step by step plan of action to alter an existing condition.

Latent content of dream analysis

Symbolic meanings of the events in the storyline.

Latent content of dream analysis

Symbolic meanings of the verbs in the storyline

Negative conditional regard

Taking away love and affection for disobedience and failure. Here, parents provide less attention and less affection when then child fails to act as told. When the child messes his room and brings home poor grades, parents turn cold and distant.

The effects of different parenting styles

The ability to regulate emotions, maintain relationships, and motivation state.

growth seeking

The pursuit of opportunities to realize one's potential

Validation seeking

The pursuit to restore one's deficiency needs

Manifest content of dream analysis

The storyline of the dream

Conditions of Worth (Rogers)

The way in which behavioral and personal characteristics(the self) are judged as either positive or negative

The brain structures that are associated with the id and the ego

cortical brain (thinking brian) & subcortical brain (emotional brain).

thanatos manifestations

death instincts—push the individual toward rest, inactivity, and energy conservation. An absence of any bodily disturbance could be achieved only through total rest, which was death.