SUMMATIVE DISS

• Psychoanalysis is a therapy as well as a theory
• Rationalization


  Justification of an unacceptable behavior
• Intellectualization


  Reasoning to block emotional distress
• Reaction formation


  Changing unwanted emotions or feelings
• Acting Out


  Carrying out extreme behavior
• Projection


  Transferring the drive or behavior that causes anxiety to others
• Dissociation


  Separating of the memories one can't deal with or doesn't want
• Compartmentalization


  Separating part of oneself from awareness of other parts
• Displacement


  Transferring of negative emotion from one person or thing
• Regression


  Seeking the safety of an earlier development stage
• Sublimation


  Diverting intolerable impulse to a socially desirable one
• Compensation


  Balancing apparent weakness by accentuating the strength
• Repression


  Unconscious forgetting of unwanted thought or trauma
• Suppression


  Conscious type of forgetting to escape from the problem
• Splitting


  Seeing everything as bad with nothing in between
• Using Humor


  Directing on funny aspects of a painful situation
• Rational choice theory


  A framework for understanding and often formally modeling social and economic behavior
• assumption is transitivity. This means that if we look at those three options since A is preferable to B is preferable to C, then A is also preferable to C. It's like in math. A is greater than B is greater than C, therefore, A is greater than C.
• assumption is called the independence of irrelevant alternatives. That's just a big fancy way of saying that if we suddenly have a fourth option, X, that it won't change the order of how it ranked in the first three options. We already have A is better than B is better than C. If X is better than C but worse than B, B isn't suddenly going to be preferable to A. A is still the best option
• Assumption of completeness means that every action can be ranked. If three possible actions can take, completeness means that none of the options have equal value. A is preferable to B and B is preferable to C. And that C is not then preferable to A because that would be circular and irrational according to our definition.