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Elementary Psychology
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1. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Identity vs Role Confusion
formal operational
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Criteria for Abnormal
2. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Superego
Realistic Conflict
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Evolutionary Psych
3. Foot in the door vs door in the face
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4. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
egocentrism
Discrimination
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Social Identity
5. Measuring the ability to concentrate - similarities: how are a thermometer and a ruler alike? - vocabulary: what does covert mean? - information: who was George Washington Carver?
Verbal Comprehension
Cognitive Dissonance
Dysfunction
boy phallic stage
6. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes
lexical hypothesis
DSM-IV-TR
Coping Strategies for Stress
Schizophrenia
7. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
girl phallic stage
Criteria for Abnormal
Health Psychology
genital stage
8. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Trust vs Mistrust
conservation
Stereotype
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
9. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Things that can influence IQ scores
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Cognitive Therapy
Normative Influence
10. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Superego
Ecclectic Therapists
11. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Statistical Deviance
Schizophrenia
Dependence
Attributions
12. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Cialdini's Compliance
Cooperation
anal stage
sensorimotor
13. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Cooperation
girl phallic stage
Initiative vs Guilt
Biopsychosocial Model
14. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Ego
Stanley Milgram Study
Causes of Schizophrenia
15. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Private Conformity
Causes for Phobias
Private Conformity
concrete operational
16. 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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17. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Cognitive Dissonance
object permanence
Biopsychosocial Model
Cognitive Therapy
18. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Phobia Treatments
Stressors
Emotional Distress
disorganized attachment
19. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Phobia Treatments
Social Identity
Stressors as Stimuli
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
20. Beliefs about the object
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Foot in the Door
Causes of Schizophrenia
conservation
21. Dental students were given a puncture wound in their mouth and measure how long it would heal - Results: wounds took longer to heal during exams than during the summer (stress)
Fundamental Attribution Error
Clinical Psychology
Dependence
Marucha Study
22. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Personality
Superego
Fundamental Attribution Error
Conformity
23. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
Sheridan & King Study
Stress
Coping Strategies for Stress
Stressors as Stimuli
24. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Id
Stressors
Cooperation
Distress
25. 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
Marucha Study
Shaping
Personality
26. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
Causes for Phobias
HPA axis
Cialdini's Compliance
Social Psychology
27. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
anal stage
genital stage
electra complex
Causes of Schizophrenia
28. 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
Trait Theory
Door in the Face
Realistic Conflict
The Big Five
29. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Integrity vs Despair
Pygmalion effect
Superego
Trust vs Mistrust
30. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Asch study
Ecclectic Therapists
Social Roles
Treatment for Schizophrenia
31. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
preoperational
Criteria for Abnormal
Verbal Comprehension
Intimacy vs Isolation
32. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Shaping
The Big Five
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
33. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Cattell's Source Traits
Eustress
Superego
Generativity vs Stagnation
34. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Satisfaction
Behavior Therapy
Interdependence Theory
35. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Phobia
Industry vs Inferiority
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Theory of Parental Investment
36. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
preoperational
Foot in the Door
Asch study
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
37. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Coping Strategies for Stress
genital stage
Cialdini's Compliance
Industry vs Inferiority
38. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
secure attachment
GAD Treatments
Prejudice
girl phallic stage
39. 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
Private Conformity
Statistical Deviance
Integrity vs Despair
Foot in the Door
40. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
secure attachment
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Clinical Psychology
41. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
Milgrams Explanations
internalization
boy phallic stage
Identity vs Role Confusion
42. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
attachment
Cattell's Source Traits
Trust vs Mistrust
egocentrism
43. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Processing Speed
Autonomy vs Doubt
Phobia
44. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
projective tests
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Verbal Comprehension
Social Identity
45. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
aptitude test
Internalized Standard
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Fundamental Attribution Error
46. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
secure attachment
Satisfaction
sensorimotor
conservation
47. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
Personality
Prejudice
Intimacy vs Isolation
castration complex
48. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Causes for Phobias
Schizophrenia
Stages of Appraisal
Processing Speed
49. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
TriPartite Model: Affect
concrete operational
Obedience
General Adaptation Syndrome
50. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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