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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
Stress as a Response
egocentrism
Token Economy
Door in the Face
2. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
achievement test
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Generativity vs Stagnation
3. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Fundamental Attribution Error
Token Economy
Causes of Schizophrenia
lexical hypothesis
4. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Stressors
Psychopathology
TriPartite Model: Cognition
electra complex
5. Change behavior - change attitude
Superego
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
To Reduce Dissonance...
6. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Stressors
Distress
Satisfaction
Biopsychosocial Model
7. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Things that can influence IQ scores
boy phallic stage
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Superego
8. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
HPA axis
General Adaptation Syndrome
girl phallic stage
Processing Speed
9. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Shaping
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Integrity vs Despair
Cognitive Dissonance
10. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Informational Influence
Dysfunction
insecure-avoidant attachment
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
11. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Behavior Therapy
attachment
Interdependence Theory
Stressors
12. Most common/successful intelligence test
Marucha Study
Trait Theory
MMPI
WAIS
13. 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
Coping Strategies for Stress
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Statistical Deviance
Id
14. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
Prejudice
achievement test
Stress
castration complex
15. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
The Big Five
object permanence
Autonomy vs Doubt
Distress
16. Sexually desire their mother
Treatment for Schizophrenia
oedipus complex
Door in the Face
Kelley's Covariation Model
17. 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
oral stage
Perceptual Organization
DSM Axes
projective tests
18. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Social Psychology
TAT
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
preoperational
19. 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
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
egocentrism
Generativity vs Stagnation
20. 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
disorganized attachment
External Attribution
Stages of Appraisal
GAD Treatments
21. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
Fundamental Attribution Error
Transformation of Motivation
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Interdependence Theory
22. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Cognitive Dissonance
Identity vs Role Confusion
castration complex
Cialdini's Compliance
23. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Psychosis
Attributions
Generativity vs Stagnation
HPA axis
24. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Phobia Treatments
Satisfaction
insecure-avoidant attachment
girl phallic stage
25. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Behavior Therapy
Personality
Eustress
preoperational
26. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Cognitive Dissonance
Fundamental Attribution Error
Pygmalion effect
Stressors as Stimuli
27. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
aptitude test
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Stanford Prison Study
Transformation of Motivation
28. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
phallic stage
Causes of Schizophrenia
Dysfunction
29. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Social Psychology
WAIS
Biopsychosocial Model
Integrity vs Despair
30. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Eustress
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Satisfaction
Processing Speed
31. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
Stereotype
DSM Axes
internalization
Criteria for Abnormal
32. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Freud's Background Info
Cialdini's Compliance
Shaping
Psychopathology
33. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Normative Influence
Social Identity
oral stage
Milgrams Explanations
34. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
egocentrism
GAD Treatments
Discrimination
Rosenhan Experiment
35. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Statistical Deviance
internalization
Schizophrenia
Psychopathology
36. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
Id
genital stage
Anxiety Disorder
Public Conformity
37. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Evolutionary Psych
Id
Intimacy vs Isolation
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
38. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
boy phallic stage
Criteria for Abnormal
Public Conformity
Stanford Prison Study
39. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Distress
Normative Influence
External Attribution
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
40. Digit span: repeat a set of numbers backwards - arithmetic: If Jessica has 3 packs of gum with 4 packs each - how many sticks will she have for herself if she gives 2 sticks each to 3 friends
Biopsychosocial Model
Ego
Working Memory
Ego
41. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
Biopsychosocial Model
TriPartite Model: Affect
Anxiety Disorder
External Attribution
42. 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
Stages of Appraisal
Stress as a Transaction
Satisfaction
Flynn Effect
43. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Personality
girl phallic stage
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
44. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Schizophrenia
latency stage
Cognitive Therapy
TriPartite Model: Affect
45. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Emotional Distress
Informational Influence
Stress
Fundamental Attribution Error
46. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
Integrity vs Despair
Health Psychology
Harlow's Experiment
sensorimotor
47. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Stanford Prison Study
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Discrimination
Schizophrenia
48. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Generativity vs Stagnation
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Satisfaction
zone of proximal development
49. Worry that father will cut their penis off
Cooperation
Phobia Treatments
castration complex
anxiety
50. 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
Attitude
phallic stage
Processing Speed
DSM Axes