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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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1. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved






2. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts






3. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation






4. Inconsistent behavior/confused






5. Built a mock prison at Stanford and paid students to play the roles of prisons and guards - Results: power of social roles took over - promotes brutality






6. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process






7. 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?






8. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior






9. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles






10. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation






11. Sexually desire their mother






12. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity






13. Worry that father will cut their penis off






14. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]






15. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them






16. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger






17. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source






18. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events






19. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person






20. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would






21. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind






22. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]






23. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life






24. I. Clinical Disorders (alcohol dependence) II. Personality Disorders & Mental Retardation (antisocial personality disorder) III. Medical Conditions (cirrhosis of liver) IV. Social Functioning & stressors (death of child - marital stress) V. Global as






25. Objects are remembered even when out of sight






26. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior






27. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]






28. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute






29. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)






30. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort

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31. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]






32. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups






33. No response to leaving or returning






34. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back






35. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy






36. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety






37. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'






38. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses






39. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)






40. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would






41. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem






42. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion






43. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]






44. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work






45. 1. Intrustions: thinking about it when you don't want to 2. Avoidance: avoid anything that reminds you of the incident 3. Arousal: physically aroused from stimuli of event






46. Predisposition to act - actions in the past






47. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures






48. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life






49. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner






50. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting