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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
Internalized Standard
Anxiety Disorder
projective tests
latency stage
2. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Stages of Appraisal
The Big Five
Perceptual Organization
Causes of Schizophrenia
3. Foot in the door vs door in the face
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4. Worry that father will cut their penis off
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
anal stage
zone of proximal development
castration complex
5. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Autonomy vs Doubt
Superego
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
6. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
electra complex
Cognitive Therapy
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Anxiety Disorder
7. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Social Roles
Milgrams Explanations
electra complex
Dysfunction
8. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
insecure-avoidant attachment
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
aptitude test
internalization
9. 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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10. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
anxiety
Health Psychology
Identity vs Role Confusion
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
11. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Ecclectic Therapists
Stressors
GAD Treatments
Things that can influence IQ scores
12. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
WAIS
Cognitive Therapy
Stress as a Response
conservation
13. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Ego
Theory of Parental Investment
Basic Cognitive Therapy
object permanence
14. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
projective tests
Cognitive Dissonance
Intimacy vs Isolation
Stereotype
15. 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?
Integrity vs Despair
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Verbal Comprehension
Sheridan & King Study
16. 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
conservation
DSM Axes
Stress
Cooperation
17. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
sensorimotor
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Integrity vs Despair
18. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Behavior Therapy
Harlow's Experiment
Realistic Conflict
Fundamental Attribution Error
19. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
concrete operational
Emotional Distress
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
20. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Realistic Conflict
girl phallic stage
Id
21. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Cialdini's Compliance
Rational Emotive Therapy
anal stage
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
22. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Stress
Emotional Distress
Schizophrenia
latency stage
23. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Normative Influence
Autonomy vs Doubt
Informational Influence
Emotional Distress
24. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Flynn Effect
Things that can influence IQ scores
Shaping
sensorimotor
25. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
insecure-anxious attachment
Cultural Deviance
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Marucha Study
26. 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
Emotional Distress
Internalized Standard
difference between piaget and vygotsky
27. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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28. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
DSM-IV-TR
Emotional Distress
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Sheridan & King Study
29. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Stanley Milgram Study
Behavior: Extinction Method
Internal Attribution
Clinical Psychology
30. 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
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Stages of Appraisal
Social Psychology
preoperational
31. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
Attitude
Generativity vs Stagnation
Fundamental Attribution Error
difference between piaget and vygotsky
32. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
Intimacy vs Isolation
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
secure attachment
phallic stage
33. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Personality
insecure-avoidant attachment
Coping Strategies for Stress
disorganized attachment
34. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Flynn Effect
anxiety
Marucha Study
35. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Stages of Appraisal
Cultural Deviance
Dependence
The Big Five
36. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
Integrity vs Despair
Trust vs Mistrust
disorganized attachment
Asch study
37. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Dependence
TriPartite Model: Affect
secure attachment
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
38. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Stereotype
Interdependence Theory
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Treatment for Schizophrenia
39. 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
Behavior Therapy
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Door in the Face
Stress
40. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
secure attachment
insecure-anxious attachment
Satisfaction
TriPartite Model: Behavior
41. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
Cultural Deviance
latency stage
Things that can influence IQ scores
Conformity
42. Inconsistent behavior/confused
TAT
GAD Treatments
Prejudice
disorganized attachment
43. No response to leaving or returning
insecure-avoidant attachment
Asch study
Flynn Effect
Trust vs Mistrust
44. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group
Conformity
Initiative vs Guilt
Cognitive Therapy
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
45. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
egocentrism
lexical hypothesis
Cultural Deviance
difference between piaget and vygotsky
46. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Satisfaction
genital stage
Milgrams Explanations
preoperational
47. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Treatment for Schizophrenia
sensorimotor
Phobia
concrete operational
48. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Social Identity
Rosenhan Experiment
Cooperation
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
49. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Conformity
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
TAT
girl phallic stage
50. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
The Big Five
Sheridan & King Study
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)