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Elementary Psychology
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1. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
projective tests
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Shaping
Shaping
2. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Kelley's Covariation Model
Trust vs Mistrust
Trait Theory
Internalized Standard
3. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Public Conformity
Stressors as Stimuli
Schizophrenia
Autonomy vs Doubt
4. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
attachment
latency stage
Realistic Conflict
difference between piaget and vygotsky
5. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
girl phallic stage
Harlow's Experiment
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
6. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
anxiety
Transformation of Motivation
Cognitive Dissonance
egocentrism
7. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Stanford Prison Study
Interdependence Theory
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
genital stage
8. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Fundamental Attribution Error
General Adaptation Syndrome
Autonomy vs Doubt
Normative Influence
9. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Private Conformity
Dependence
preoperational
Industry vs Inferiority
10. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
Clinical Psychology
lexical hypothesis
Transformation of Motivation
Pygmalion effect
11. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Behavior: Extinction Method
aptitude test
object permanence
oedipus complex
12. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
Satisfaction
Theory of Parental Investment
Door in the Face
Statistical Deviance
13. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Working Memory
Social Roles
Clinical Psychology
Anxiety Disorder
14. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Conformity
Cultural Deviance
girl phallic stage
15. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Stress as a Response
Causes of Schizophrenia
Rational Emotive Therapy
aptitude test
16. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
conservation
Working Memory
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
TAT
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. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
GAD Treatments
lexical hypothesis
Stressors as Stimuli
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
19. 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
Sheridan & King Study
Integrity vs Despair
Trait Theory
Door in the Face
20. 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
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
DSM Axes
Things that can influence IQ scores
girl phallic stage
21. 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
Anxiety Disorder
conservation
formal operational
Foot in the Door
22. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Psychosis
Transformation of Motivation
Autonomy vs Doubt
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
23. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Things that can influence IQ scores
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
electra complex
disorganized attachment
24. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Rosenhan Experiment
anal stage
HPA axis
25. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Psychopathology
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Health Psychology
Causes of Schizophrenia
26. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
zone of proximal development
Cognitive Therapy
Personality
27. 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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28. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
Psychosis
formal operational
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Processing Speed
29. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Token Economy
Integrity vs Despair
Eustress
30. Beliefs about the object
DSM-IV-TR
oral stage
Initiative vs Guilt
TriPartite Model: Cognition
31. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Stressors as Stimuli
Rosenhan Experiment
Generativity vs Stagnation
Milgrams Explanations
32. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Causes for Phobias
To Reduce Dissonance...
Criteria for Abnormal
concrete operational
33. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
concrete operational
Initiative vs Guilt
attachment
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
34. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Stress
Private Conformity
aptitude test
TriPartite Model: Affect
35. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Superego
Health Psychology
Rational Emotive Therapy
zone of proximal development
36. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Perceptual Organization
Statistical Deviance
Conformity
Stress
37. 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
sensorimotor
Shaping
Stages of Appraisal
Harlow's Experiment
38. 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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39. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
aptitude test
Marucha Study
boy phallic stage
Cialdini's Compliance
40. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
genital stage
secure attachment
Evolutionary Psych
Informational Influence
41. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Private Conformity
TriPartite Model: Affect
Phobia
Fundamental Attribution Error
42. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Phobia
phallic stage
Things that can influence IQ scores
Industry vs Inferiority
43. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Flynn Effect
Autonomy vs Doubt
TriPartite Model: Affect
General Adaptation Syndrome
44. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Kelley's Covariation Model
Realistic Conflict
GAD Treatments
Intimacy vs Isolation
45. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
conservation
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
46. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
Marucha Study
Evolutionary Psych
Behavior Therapy
boy phallic stage
47. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Cognitive Therapy
DSM-IV-TR
Stanley Milgram Study
Rosenhan Experiment
48. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Social Identity
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
External Attribution
Token Economy
49. 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
Biopsychosocial Model
internalization
Stress as a Response
Social Psychology
50. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Trust vs Mistrust
Door in the Face
Stanley Milgram Study
Obedience
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