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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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1. No response to leaving or returning






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






3. Sexually desire their mother






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






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






6. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment






7. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal






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






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






10. Most common/successful intelligence test






11. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted






12. Genetic component & environmental conditioning






13. 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






14. 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






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






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






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






18. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures






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






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






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






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






23. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming






24. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth






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






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






28. Dental students were given a puncture wound in their mouth and measure how long it would heal - Results: wounds took longer to heal during exams than during the summer (stress)






29. Emotions about the object






30. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges






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






32. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back






33. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism






34. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events






42. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction






43. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures






44. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ






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






46. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams






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






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






49. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse






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