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Elementary Psychology
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1. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
Obedience
Internal Attribution
lexical hypothesis
Stanley Milgram Study
2. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
girl phallic stage
External Attribution
DSM-IV-TR
Phobia Treatments
3. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
preoperational
GAD Treatments
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
difference between piaget and vygotsky
4. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
oral stage
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Criteria for Abnormal
5. No response to leaving or returning
insecure-avoidant attachment
attachment
Psychopathology
Statistical Deviance
6. Against culture norms - behavior often paired with societal disapproval - disapproval is not enough (sexism - racism)
Trust vs Mistrust
Cultural Deviance
Internalized Standard
Ecclectic Therapists
7. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
conservation
Informational Influence
zone of proximal development
Intimacy vs Isolation
8. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Behavior: Extinction Method
Attributions
Dysfunction
Rosenhan Experiment
9. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Stress as a Response
Ego
Cialdini's Compliance
Clinical Psychology
10. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
Behavior Therapy
Cialdini's Compliance
HPA axis
Stress
11. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
Stress as a Response
Discrimination
anxiety
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
12. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
preoperational
genital stage
Criteria for Abnormal
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
13. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
internalization
Id
The Big Five
14. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
genital stage
Generativity vs Stagnation
Sheridan & King Study
Cognitive Therapy
15. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Interdependence Theory
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Freud's Background Info
WAIS
16. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Superego
Perceptual Organization
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Basic Cognitive Therapy
17. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Attributions
Health Psychology
TriPartite Model: Cognition
difference between piaget and vygotsky
18. 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
concrete operational
General Adaptation Syndrome
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
19. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
sensorimotor
Things that can influence IQ scores
Factors that predict relationship success
Cognitive Dissonance
20. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Trait Theory
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
projective tests
21. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Rosenhan Experiment
Trait Theory
Factors that predict relationship success
Id
22. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
Conformity
Theory of Parental Investment
phallic stage
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
23. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Intimacy vs Isolation
Stress
Stanford Prison Study
Superego
24. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
attachment
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
concrete operational
25. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
Prejudice
Stress as a Response
insecure-anxious attachment
The Big Five
26. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Things that can influence IQ scores
attachment
Sheridan & King Study
External Attribution
27. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Satisfaction
TriPartite Model: Affect
Perceptual Organization
Stanley Milgram Study
28. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Rational Emotive Therapy
Schizophrenia
Social Psychology
29. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Social Roles
Emotional Distress
Discrimination
Evolutionary Psych
30. Study of the mental illness of the brain
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
latency stage
Psychopathology
oedipus complex
31. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
conservation
Harlow's Experiment
Personality
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
32. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Token Economy
Coping Strategies for Stress
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Factors that predict relationship success
33. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
Realistic Conflict
preoperational
anal stage
latency stage
34. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Attributions
DSM Axes
HPA axis
The Big Five
35. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
concrete operational
Identity vs Role Confusion
electra complex
36. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Intimacy vs Isolation
Health Psychology
Pygmalion effect
conservation
37. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Stressors as Stimuli
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Trust vs Mistrust
Identity vs Role Confusion
38. 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
Stress as a Response
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
External Attribution
Stress
39. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
HPA axis
The Big Five
insecure-avoidant attachment
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
40. 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
Asch study
Stages of Appraisal
preoperational
DSM-IV-TR
41. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Industry vs Inferiority
GAD Treatments
formal operational
42. 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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43. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Cialdini's Compliance
Evolutionary Psych
Cattell's Source Traits
Asch study
44. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Schizophrenia
achievement test
Sheridan & King Study
45. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Cooperation
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Stress as a Transaction
Statistical Deviance
46. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
Cooperation
object permanence
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
latency stage
47. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Integrity vs Despair
achievement test
electra complex
boy phallic stage
48. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
oedipus complex
Satisfaction
Causes for Phobias
anxiety
49. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Realistic Conflict
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Private Conformity
Pygmalion effect
50. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Door in the Face
electra complex
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Intimacy vs Isolation