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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Rosenhan Experiment
Identity vs Role Confusion
Generativity vs Stagnation
2. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
TAT
Marucha Study
egocentrism
projective tests
3. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
egocentrism
Social Psychology
Processing Speed
4. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Token Economy
Perceptual Organization
MMPI
Stress as a Transaction
5. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
phallic stage
Freud's Background Info
TAT
electra complex
6. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Stress as a Response
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Superego
Stress as a Transaction
7. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
phallic stage
formal operational
Harlow's Experiment
External Attribution
8. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Eustress
Harlow's Experiment
Attributions
Psychopathology
9. 1. Problem Focused: tackle the stressor head on - usually occurs when optimistic and believe we can achieve our goals 2. Emotion Focused: try to place a more positive outlook on emotions - engage in behaviors to reduce painful emotions
Generativity vs Stagnation
TAT
Satisfaction
Coping Strategies for Stress
10. Foot in the door vs door in the face
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11. 1) development is more continues than stage-like 2) changing procedures a little bit changes results a lot 3) methods culturally biased
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12. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Shaping
Sheridan & King Study
secure attachment
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
13. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Conformity
projective tests
Clinical Psychology
Stanley Milgram Study
14. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
Clinical Psychology
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
GAD Treatments
WAIS
15. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Cattell's Source Traits
Freud's Background Info
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
16. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Trait Theory
Asch study
Cognitive Therapy
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
17. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Id
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Perceptual Organization
Normative Influence
18. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Psychosis
Trust vs Mistrust
Phobia
Anxiety Disorder
19. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Anxiety Disorder
Dysfunction
disorganized attachment
Flynn Effect
20. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
boy phallic stage
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
insecure-avoidant attachment
Integrity vs Despair
21. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
castration complex
Distress
egocentrism
Phobia
22. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Satisfaction
anal stage
Basic Cognitive Therapy
23. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Satisfaction
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Internalized Standard
Public Conformity
24. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Social Identity
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Integrity vs Despair
Behavior: Extinction Method
25. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
Transformation of Motivation
achievement test
Integrity vs Despair
Causes of Schizophrenia
26. Describes prolonged stress response in three stages 1. Alarm: fight or flight 2. Resistance: body uses resources to resist stress 3. Exhaustion: physiological response is depleted - become susceptible to illness/disease
Theory of Parental Investment
General Adaptation Syndrome
Private Conformity
Basic Cognitive Therapy
27. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Causes for Phobias
Initiative vs Guilt
Verbal Comprehension
Perceptual Organization
28. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Cialdini's Compliance
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Phobia
29. Worry that father will cut their penis off
formal operational
Initiative vs Guilt
castration complex
Schizophrenia
30. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Harlow's Experiment
Personality
Causes of Schizophrenia
Trust vs Mistrust
31. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Cognitive Therapy
Harlow's Experiment
Stress
32. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
anxiety
Id
External Attribution
33. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
boy phallic stage
Fundamental Attribution Error
Causes of Schizophrenia
preoperational
34. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Psychosis
oedipus complex
Milgrams Explanations
Shaping
35. Lived in End of Romatic Era (emphasis on expression - art - passion - sexuality relatively liberal) -grew up in Victorian Age (sexuality is taboo - emphasis on public decency/morality - paternal) -mothers first born and favorite child -love/hate rela
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36. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
Id
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
latency stage
Criteria for Abnormal
37. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Identity vs Role Confusion
Stressors as Stimuli
Working Memory
Attributions
38. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
boy phallic stage
Cattell's Source Traits
achievement test
Anxiety Disorder
39. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Initiative vs Guilt
Rational Emotive Therapy
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
40. Lived in End of Romatic Era (emphasis on expression - art - passion - sexuality relatively liberal) -grew up in Victorian Age (sexuality is taboo - emphasis on public decency/morality - paternal) -mothers first born and favorite child -love/hate rela
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41. Measuring the ability to concentrate - similarities: how are a thermometer and a ruler alike? - vocabulary: what does covert mean? - information: who was George Washington Carver?
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Verbal Comprehension
Informational Influence
DSM Axes
42. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Rosenhan Experiment
Theory of Parental Investment
Internal Attribution
Distress
43. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Cultural Deviance
Stereotype
Treatment for Schizophrenia
44. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
General Adaptation Syndrome
Factors that predict relationship success
To Reduce Dissonance...
Dysfunction
45. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Interdependence Theory
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Internalized Standard
Causes of Schizophrenia
46. Change behavior - change attitude
WAIS
difference between piaget and vygotsky
To Reduce Dissonance...
Milgrams Explanations
47. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Fundamental Attribution Error
disorganized attachment
girl phallic stage
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
48. 1. Problem Focused: tackle the stressor head on - usually occurs when optimistic and believe we can achieve our goals 2. Emotion Focused: try to place a more positive outlook on emotions - engage in behaviors to reduce painful emotions
Coping Strategies for Stress
Verbal Comprehension
Psychopathology
Harlow's Experiment
49. Inconsistent behavior/confused
disorganized attachment
WAIS
Processing Speed
Phobia
50. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
secure attachment
Eustress
Health Psychology
castration complex