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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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1. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting






2. Jealousy/hatred of all other women






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






4. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability






5. 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






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






7. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior






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

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9. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods






10. Inconsistent behavior/confused






11. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior






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






13. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have






14. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above






15. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity






16. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures






17. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments






18. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver






19. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something






20. Ask for a small favor first - followed up with a larger request - if you say yes once - you are more likely to say yes later






21. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause






22. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic






23. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave






24. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above






25. 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






26. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology






27. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)






28. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs






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






30. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior






31. Most common/successful intelligence test






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






33. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)






34. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]






35. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)






36. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved






37. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation






38. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt






39. Beliefs about the object






40. Jealousy/hatred of all other women






41. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause






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






43. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution






44. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]






45. Focus on the outcome of being in a situation that causes stress - stress is a physiological response Ex: fight or flight vs General Adaptation Syndrome






46. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause






47. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology






48. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]






49. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm






50. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]