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General Systems Theory

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emphasizes the impact of environment on individuals via social systems.

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What does the model do for general systems theory?

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Is about the dynamic interaction of the components of the model such as that a change in any part of the system affects the rest of the system but doesn’t determine the whole system.

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What are the two system concepts in general systems theory?

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Homeostasis and feedback

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Homeostasis

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maintenance of normal internal stability (steady state)

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Feedback

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when output from a system is put back into a system

When someone is told something from an outside lense.

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Ecological Theory

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(life model) focuses on inter-relatedness between people and the environment.

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What are the four ecological concepts?

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adaptedness, stress, coping, and habitat

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adaptedness

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goodness of a fit with the environment

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Who created psychoanalytic theory?

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Sigmund Freud

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What is psychoanalytic theory?

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That the functioning of the mind is not random; all thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are related to prior experiences and events.

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tripartite psychic structure

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(id, ego, and superego) which guides functioning

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Id

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seat of the primitive drives and instinctual needs (physical)

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Ego

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meditator between id and superego; between internal and external reality

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Superego

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seat of conscience (mental)

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Reality Testing

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accurate perception of external environment and internal world

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Judgement

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capacity to act appropriately (depends on accurate perception and evaluation of a given circumstance)

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Regulation and Control of Impulses, Drives, and Affects

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Ability to modulate, delay, inhibit, or control expression in accord with reality; ability to tolerate intense, unpleasant emotions without becoming overwhelmed

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Object Relations

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suggesting instead that humans are primarily motivated by the need for contact with others—the need to form relationships.

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Thought Processes

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Capacity to perceive, concentrate, anticipate, symbolize, remember, and reason; thinking is organized, logical, and oriented to reality

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Defense Functions

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Unconscious internal mechanisms to protect from extreme anxiety white fostering optimal functioning

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Synthetic Integrative Functioning

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part of superego, binds and fits all parts of the personality into structure that can act in the external world.

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Who created Separation- Individual Theory?

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Margaret Mahler

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separation-individual theory

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the focus on development of a consolidation sense of “self” as the result of separation and individuation of the self from the love object.

Separation refers to the development of limits, the differentiation between the infant and the mother, whereas individuation refers to the development of the infant’s ego, sense of identity, and cognitive abilities.

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who created cognitive development theory?

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jean piaget

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cognitive development theory

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The theory deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how humans gradually come to acquire, construct, and use it.

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intelligence

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activity of coping with environment, the maximum adaptive capacity provides structure of intelligence

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schemata

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action sequences and behavior patterns

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assimilation

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process that manages how we take in new information and incorporate that new information into our existing knowledge

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accommodation

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the tendency of an organism to adapt to the events of the environment

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equilibrium

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refers to a state of balance between an individual’s mental schemata, or frameworks, and his or her environment.

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who created moral development theory?

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lawerence kohlberg

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moral development theory

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a development theory of moral reasoning that parallels cognitive development in that the child cannot achieve higher levels of moral reasoning until achieving higher levels of cognitive reasoning

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what are the three stages of moral development theory?

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pre-conventional, conventional, and post- conventional

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pre-conventional

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moral reasoning based on avoiding punishment and to serve one’s own needs, “right” is relative to that moment

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conventional

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moral reasoning based on the need to look good in one’s own eyes and the eyes of others; maintain social system, shared social perspective

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post-conventional

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belief in greater moral principles and a sense of personal commitment to doing what is right because it is right, regardless of individual needs

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stages of death and dying

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denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance

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bargaining

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the if on;y’s that cause the individual to find fault in him/herself and what s/he thinks s/he could have done differently