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Elementary Psychology
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1. 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
Behavior: Extinction Method
oedipus complex
Stress as a Response
genital stage
2. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
WAIS
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
oedipus complex
anxiety
3. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Social Roles
Informational Influence
Clinical Psychology
4. No response to leaving or returning
insecure-avoidant attachment
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Informational Influence
HPA axis
5. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Identity vs Role Confusion
Stress as a Transaction
Anxiety Disorder
6. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
zone of proximal development
Causes for Phobias
TAT
Cooperation
7. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Rational Emotive Therapy
Social Identity
Eustress
latency stage
8. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
Trait Theory
Initiative vs Guilt
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Cultural Deviance
9. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
attachment
Conformity
sensorimotor
Fundamental Attribution Error
10. 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
formal operational
Cooperation
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Token Economy
11. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
TriPartite Model: Cognition
projective tests
Private Conformity
Pygmalion effect
12. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
GAD Treatments
Public Conformity
girl phallic stage
Cultural Deviance
13. Sexually desire their mother
oedipus complex
Informational Influence
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
TriPartite Model: Behavior
14. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Satisfaction
Stanley Milgram Study
insecure-avoidant attachment
Rosenhan Experiment
15. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Basic Cognitive Therapy
lexical hypothesis
oedipus complex
Stages of Appraisal
16. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
The Big Five
Transformation of Motivation
Processing Speed
Anxiety Disorder
17. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
lexical hypothesis
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Dysfunction
18. No response to leaving or returning
Asch study
Factors that predict relationship success
HPA axis
insecure-avoidant attachment
19. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Perceptual Organization
Attitude
Integrity vs Despair
Causes of Schizophrenia
20. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Normative Influence
aptitude test
object permanence
Shaping
21. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Asch study
Stress
Dependence
Rational Emotive Therapy
22. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
object permanence
Trust vs Mistrust
Factors that predict relationship success
Cultural Deviance
23. 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
Informational Influence
Stages of Appraisal
HPA axis
Phobia
24. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Emotional Distress
Obedience
Internal Attribution
Informational Influence
25. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
Verbal Comprehension
Initiative vs Guilt
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
WAIS
26. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
Freud's Background Info
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
anxiety
Cognitive Therapy
27. 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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28. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Intimacy vs Isolation
Private Conformity
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Identity vs Role Confusion
29. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
sensorimotor
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
30. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Distress
Evolutionary Psych
Initiative vs Guilt
31. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
Theory of Parental Investment
boy phallic stage
External Attribution
Shaping
32. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
Informational Influence
sensorimotor
Industry vs Inferiority
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
33. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Pygmalion effect
Biopsychosocial Model
Private Conformity
Flynn Effect
34. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Public Conformity
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
General Adaptation Syndrome
Perceptual Organization
35. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Dependence
girl phallic stage
Private Conformity
Attributions
36. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Kelley's Covariation Model
girl phallic stage
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Coping Strategies for Stress
37. Physical vs. social interaction
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Eustress
zone of proximal development
Verbal Comprehension
38. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Dependence
Behavior Therapy
Social Roles
Cognitive Therapy
39. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Verbal Comprehension
Causes for Phobias
Processing Speed
castration complex
40. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes
Eustress
genital stage
girl phallic stage
DSM-IV-TR
41. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Realistic Conflict
Fundamental Attribution Error
Cultural Deviance
Stanley Milgram Study
42. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Perceptual Organization
Cognitive Dissonance
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Fundamental Attribution Error
43. Measure personality in basic units - named factors A - B - C - etc. - identified 16 factors - [ex=intelligence - boldness - insecurity - self-discipline - tension]
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44. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Informational Influence
Things that can influence IQ scores
Flynn Effect
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
45. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Emotional Distress
Behavior: Extinction Method
Health Psychology
oral stage
46. 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
Anxiety Disorder
Stages of Appraisal
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Informational Influence
47. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Cooperation
DSM-IV-TR
MMPI
latency stage
48. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Freud's Background Info
Door in the Face
Statistical Deviance
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
49. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution
Milgrams Explanations
General Adaptation Syndrome
Identity vs Role Confusion
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
50. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
phallic stage
Stereotype
attachment
Superego