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Elementary Psychology
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1. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Milgrams Explanations
Personality
Harlow's Experiment
Pygmalion effect
2. 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
Satisfaction
Eustress
General Adaptation Syndrome
Factors that predict relationship success
3. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Evolutionary Psych
Factors that predict relationship success
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Stress as a Transaction
4. 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
Psychopathology
External Attribution
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Stages of Appraisal
5. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Flynn Effect
Theory of Parental Investment
Processing Speed
6. 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
Ego
Door in the Face
Harlow's Experiment
Integrity vs Despair
7. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Causes of Schizophrenia
Psychosis
Criteria for Abnormal
8. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
TAT
Obedience
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
anxiety
9. 1. covariate: look for cause of behavior 2. consistency: does this pairing always occur? 3. distinctiveness: is this behavior rare in terms of frequency 4. consensus: do other people react the same way?
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10. 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
Stanley Milgram Study
Emotional Distress
Foot in the Door
electra complex
11. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Cognitive Dissonance
Distress
General Adaptation Syndrome
formal operational
12. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
Realistic Conflict
Trust vs Mistrust
object permanence
insecure-anxious attachment
13. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
insecure-anxious attachment
Prejudice
Personality
Private Conformity
14. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
electra complex
Trust vs Mistrust
genital stage
aptitude test
15. 1. covariate: look for cause of behavior 2. consistency: does this pairing always occur? 3. distinctiveness: is this behavior rare in terms of frequency 4. consensus: do other people react the same way?
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16. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Factors that predict relationship success
Verbal Comprehension
anal stage
To Reduce Dissonance...
17. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Pygmalion effect
Verbal Comprehension
Phobia Treatments
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
18. 1. Problem Focused: tackle the stressor head on - usually occurs when optimistic and believe we can achieve our goals 2. Emotion Focused: try to place a more positive outlook on emotions - engage in behaviors to reduce painful emotions
Personality
concrete operational
Coping Strategies for Stress
Distress
19. Emotions about the object
To Reduce Dissonance...
concrete operational
TriPartite Model: Affect
Internalized Standard
20. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Autonomy vs Doubt
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
TriPartite Model: Affect
Clinical Psychology
21. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
Initiative vs Guilt
The Big Five
Stressors as Stimuli
Factors that predict relationship success
22. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Factors that predict relationship success
Stages of Appraisal
concrete operational
object permanence
23. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Asch study
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Harlow's Experiment
24. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
Causes of Schizophrenia
disorganized attachment
oral stage
WAIS
25. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Verbal Comprehension
Anxiety Disorder
Obedience
26. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Dependence
Perceptual Organization
Causes of Schizophrenia
oedipus complex
27. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
TAT
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
TriPartite Model: Behavior
28. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
Stereotype
Trait Theory
Initiative vs Guilt
achievement test
29. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
Satisfaction
concrete operational
Behavior: Extinction Method
egocentrism
30. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Psychosis
Normative Influence
Cognitive Therapy
Stressors as Stimuli
31. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Superego
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Integrity vs Despair
Milgrams Explanations
32. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
projective tests
Industry vs Inferiority
Superego
Causes of Schizophrenia
33. Change behavior - change attitude
Ecclectic Therapists
Informational Influence
Rosenhan Experiment
To Reduce Dissonance...
34. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
Id
Milgrams Explanations
Social Psychology
GAD Treatments
35. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Social Identity
Eustress
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
36. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
girl phallic stage
Psychopathology
TAT
Basic Cognitive Therapy
37. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Intimacy vs Isolation
Emotional Distress
Causes of Schizophrenia
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
38. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
Obedience
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Transformation of Motivation
39. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Kelley's Covariation Model
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Private Conformity
40. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
Trust vs Mistrust
object permanence
Stages of Appraisal
latency stage
41. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Trust vs Mistrust
GAD Treatments
The Big Five
Normative Influence
42. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
attachment
electra complex
Cialdini's Compliance
Basic Cognitive Therapy
43. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
egocentrism
concrete operational
Attitude
TriPartite Model: Behavior
44. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Rosenhan Experiment
anxiety
Integrity vs Despair
Prejudice
45. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
oral stage
formal operational
Normative Influence
Initiative vs Guilt
46. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Biopsychosocial Model
TriPartite Model: Affect
Industry vs Inferiority
Perceptual Organization
47. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Rosenhan Experiment
zone of proximal development
Superego
48. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
Initiative vs Guilt
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Intimacy vs Isolation
Statistical Deviance
49. 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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50. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Criteria for Abnormal
Discrimination
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Autonomy vs Doubt