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Elementary Psychology
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1. Emotions about the object
TriPartite Model: Affect
Internal Attribution
Psychosis
Phobia Treatments
2. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
girl phallic stage
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
sensorimotor
Theory of Parental Investment
3. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Phobia
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
anal stage
External Attribution
4. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Psychosis
preoperational
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
5. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
Intimacy vs Isolation
TAT
boy phallic stage
secure attachment
6. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
Schizophrenia
Processing Speed
Social Identity
GAD Treatments
7. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
TriPartite Model: Behavior
zone of proximal development
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Psychopathology
8. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
Eustress
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Cultural Deviance
MMPI
9. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
object permanence
Psychopathology
Phobia
attachment
10. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
latency stage
Transformation of Motivation
Token Economy
11. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Stereotype
Generativity vs Stagnation
Personality
Realistic Conflict
12. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
Attributions
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Obedience
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
13. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
disorganized attachment
oedipus complex
Health Psychology
Integrity vs Despair
14. Change behavior - change attitude
To Reduce Dissonance...
sensorimotor
Attributions
Cialdini's Compliance
15. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
girl phallic stage
Interdependence Theory
lexical hypothesis
The Big Five
16. 1. Intrustions: thinking about it when you don't want to 2. Avoidance: avoid anything that reminds you of the incident 3. Arousal: physically aroused from stimuli of event
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Biopsychosocial Model
Cognitive Dissonance
17. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Stages of Appraisal
Satisfaction
Stress as a Transaction
Processing Speed
18. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
egocentrism
Stanford Prison Study
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
19. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
phallic stage
HPA axis
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
20. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Cognitive Dissonance
Stressors
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Ego
21. Against culture norms - behavior often paired with societal disapproval - disapproval is not enough (sexism - racism)
Initiative vs Guilt
The Big Five
Superego
Cultural Deviance
22. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Factors that predict relationship success
Cultural Deviance
Health Psychology
Evolutionary Psych
23. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Intimacy vs Isolation
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Causes of Schizophrenia
Distress
24. 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
latency stage
Cultural Deviance
TAT
DSM Axes
25. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
sensorimotor
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Sheridan & King Study
Working Memory
26. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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27. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
Social Roles
concrete operational
Freud's Background Info
Stressors
28. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
HPA axis
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Stress
29. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
internalization
Health Psychology
Cultural Deviance
30. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
Obedience
anxiety
latency stage
Personality
31. Most common/successful intelligence test
WAIS
Stereotype
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Initiative vs Guilt
32. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Rational Emotive Therapy
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
33. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes
Harlow's Experiment
Identity vs Role Confusion
Behavior: Extinction Method
DSM-IV-TR
34. Worry that father will cut their penis off
phallic stage
Token Economy
TAT
castration complex
35. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
girl phallic stage
Ecclectic Therapists
electra complex
Transformation of Motivation
36. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Phobia
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
aptitude test
37. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Door in the Face
Asch study
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Conformity
38. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
latency stage
egocentrism
Public Conformity
Obedience
39. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
preoperational
Superego
Cultural Deviance
Generativity vs Stagnation
40. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Things that can influence IQ scores
Superego
Eustress
electra complex
41. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Distress
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Cognitive Therapy
Private Conformity
42. 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
Health Psychology
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Stanford Prison Study
Emotional Distress
43. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Flynn Effect
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Behavior Therapy
Intimacy vs Isolation
44. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Schizophrenia
Private Conformity
Dependence
oedipus complex
45. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
DSM Axes
Eustress
Freud's Background Info
projective tests
46. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
achievement test
Social Psychology
Social Roles
Token Economy
47. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Fundamental Attribution Error
TriPartite Model: Affect
anxiety
Schizophrenia
48. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Identity vs Role Confusion
Emotional Distress
anxiety
genital stage
49. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Behavior Therapy
Biopsychosocial Model
Personality
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
50. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Attitude
Cultural Deviance
lexical hypothesis