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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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1. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system






2. Intended to reflect what you have already learned






3. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments






4. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives






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






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






7. 1. Primary: must perceive that event is a threat to personal goals 2. Secondary: must conclude that resources to meet demands of event are unavailable






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






9. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase






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






11. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal






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






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






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






15. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver






16. Objects are remembered even when out of sight






17. 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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18. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount






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






20. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed






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






22. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)






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






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

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25. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior






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






27. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal






28. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family






29. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]






30. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation






31. Physical vs. social interaction






32. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior






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






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






35. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat






36. Ask for a large favor first - followed up with something much smaller - if you say no - you may feel guilty and may say yes to a more reasonable request






37. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver






38. 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






39. Genetic component & environmental conditioning






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






41. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies






42. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through






43. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]






44. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting






45. 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






46. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father






47. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures






48. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change






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






50. Physical vs. social interaction