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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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1. Genetic component & environmental conditioning






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






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






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






5. Inconsistent behavior/confused






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






7. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something






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






9. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something






10. 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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11. Most common/successful intelligence test






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






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






14. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)






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






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






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






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






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






20. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal






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






22. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures






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






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






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






26. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]






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






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






29. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver






30. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'






31. 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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32. Intended to reflect what you have already learned






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






34. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]






35. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic






36. Predisposition to act - actions in the past






37. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures






38. 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?






39. 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






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






41. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic






42. Study of the mental illness of the brain






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






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






45. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors






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






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






48. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner






49. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)






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






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