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Elementary Psychology
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1. Most common/successful intelligence test
girl phallic stage
WAIS
Private Conformity
Causes for Phobias
2. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
electra complex
boy phallic stage
Social Psychology
Intimacy vs Isolation
3. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
Transformation of Motivation
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Obedience
Informational Influence
4. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Emotional Distress
Attributions
formal operational
TAT
5. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Intimacy vs Isolation
aptitude test
Flynn Effect
Stanley Milgram Study
6. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Social Identity
Transformation of Motivation
lexical hypothesis
Generativity vs Stagnation
7. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Stereotype
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Cultural Deviance
8. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
concrete operational
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Social Psychology
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
9. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Ecclectic Therapists
Verbal Comprehension
Integrity vs Despair
10. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
The Big Five
Rational Emotive Therapy
HPA axis
sensorimotor
11. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
Theory of Parental Investment
Id
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
aptitude test
12. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Evolutionary Psych
Treatment for Schizophrenia
anal stage
Causes of Schizophrenia
13. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
Interdependence Theory
TAT
Stressors as Stimuli
insecure-anxious attachment
14. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
aptitude test
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Shaping
latency stage
15. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
Causes for Phobias
latency stage
Rosenhan Experiment
Public Conformity
16. Change behavior - change attitude
TriPartite Model: Affect
Stress as a Transaction
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
To Reduce Dissonance...
17. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Attributions
Behavior: Extinction Method
Stanley Milgram Study
Anxiety Disorder
18. 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)
Marucha Study
sensorimotor
Cognitive Therapy
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
19. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Stress
Perceptual Organization
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Cattell's Source Traits
20. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
phallic stage
To Reduce Dissonance...
Informational Influence
Superego
21. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
insecure-anxious attachment
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Id
Psychopathology
22. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
WAIS
HPA axis
TriPartite Model: Affect
Anxiety Disorder
23. Built a mock prison at Stanford and paid students to play the roles of prisons and guards - Results: power of social roles took over - promotes brutality
Generativity vs Stagnation
Stressors as Stimuli
TriPartite Model: Affect
Stanford Prison Study
24. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
Obedience
Stages of Appraisal
oral stage
Discrimination
25. 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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26. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
Stressors
sensorimotor
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Flynn Effect
27. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Stanford Prison Study
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
insecure-anxious attachment
Basic Cognitive Therapy
28. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
Dysfunction
oedipus complex
anal stage
Asch study
29. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
boy phallic stage
Rational Emotive Therapy
Phobia Treatments
DSM Axes
30. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Factors that predict relationship success
Coping Strategies for Stress
Token Economy
DSM-IV-TR
31. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Prejudice
insecure-avoidant attachment
disorganized attachment
Criteria for Abnormal
32. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
secure attachment
zone of proximal development
Verbal Comprehension
Obedience
33. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Psychosis
Internalized Standard
Generativity vs Stagnation
Cognitive Therapy
34. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Attributions
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Public Conformity
Integrity vs Despair
35. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Discrimination
castration complex
Dysfunction
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
36. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Attributions
Intimacy vs Isolation
Eustress
37. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Informational Influence
zone of proximal development
Private Conformity
Stressors as Stimuli
38. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
anxiety
To Reduce Dissonance...
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Stereotype
39. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Superego
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Processing Speed
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
40. 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
Milgrams Explanations
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Obedience
Prejudice
41. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
Statistical Deviance
Industry vs Inferiority
boy phallic stage
Asch study
42. 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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43. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
HPA axis
Obedience
Informational Influence
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
44. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Attitude
Generativity vs Stagnation
Public Conformity
Social Roles
45. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Perceptual Organization
Rosenhan Experiment
Theory of Parental Investment
Causes of Schizophrenia
46. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
Stanford Prison Study
concrete operational
DSM Axes
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
47. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Normative Influence
object permanence
Theory of Parental Investment
Public Conformity
48. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
Obedience
insecure-avoidant attachment
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
secure attachment
49. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
Trait Theory
To Reduce Dissonance...
preoperational
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
50. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Dependence
Private Conformity
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Anxiety Disorder
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