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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Satisfaction
Ecclectic Therapists
Eustress
Processing Speed
2. 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
Door in the Face
Prejudice
Attitude
internalization
3. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
achievement test
secure attachment
Asch study
attachment
4. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Stressors
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
oedipus complex
Discrimination
5. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Rosenhan Experiment
TAT
Statistical Deviance
MMPI
6. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
Trust vs Mistrust
projective tests
egocentrism
Foot in the Door
7. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
sensorimotor
External Attribution
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Informational Influence
8. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Stress
Cattell's Source Traits
Stanley Milgram Study
Evolutionary Psych
9. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
External Attribution
object permanence
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Private Conformity
10. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Things that can influence IQ scores
Cognitive Dissonance
Dysfunction
Asch study
11. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
insecure-avoidant attachment
MMPI
Eustress
Criteria for Abnormal
12. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Ego
Dysfunction
GAD Treatments
Stanley Milgram Study
13. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Causes for Phobias
achievement test
castration complex
Id
14. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
anxiety
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Rosenhan Experiment
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
15. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Informational Influence
Behavior: Extinction Method
Token Economy
16. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
internalization
Causes of Schizophrenia
GAD Treatments
Statistical Deviance
17. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
latency stage
DSM Axes
DSM-IV-TR
Phobia
18. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Criteria for Abnormal
Stress as a Response
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Token Economy
19. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Discrimination
Cultural Deviance
phallic stage
Emotional Distress
20. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
disorganized attachment
Public Conformity
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
21. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Distress
Conformity
oedipus complex
Token Economy
22. 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
MMPI
attachment
Door in the Face
Kelley's Covariation Model
23. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Social Identity
concrete operational
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Distress
24. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Satisfaction
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Freud's Background Info
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
25. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Internal Attribution
internalization
Harlow's Experiment
26. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
Causes of Schizophrenia
Initiative vs Guilt
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
secure attachment
27. Physical vs. social interaction
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Ecclectic Therapists
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
28. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Freud's Background Info
Public Conformity
Criteria for Abnormal
Health Psychology
29. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
Obedience
Behavior: Extinction Method
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Personality
30. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
preoperational
oral stage
Evolutionary Psych
anxiety
31. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
lexical hypothesis
Emotional Distress
egocentrism
Things that can influence IQ scores
32. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
genital stage
Schizophrenia
insecure-avoidant attachment
33. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
sensorimotor
Industry vs Inferiority
Perceptual Organization
Stress as a Transaction
34. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Health Psychology
insecure-avoidant attachment
Superego
TriPartite Model: Behavior
35. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Asch study
Milgrams Explanations
Informational Influence
genital stage
36. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Working Memory
Integrity vs Despair
Things that can influence IQ scores
General Adaptation Syndrome
37. Sexually desire their mother
concrete operational
projective tests
oedipus complex
insecure-avoidant attachment
38. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
zone of proximal development
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
39. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Rosenhan Experiment
Discrimination
Stages of Appraisal
DSM Axes
40. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
sensorimotor
Kelley's Covariation Model
Marucha Study
41. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
anal stage
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Distress
42. 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
Transformation of Motivation
Asch study
Token Economy
Working Memory
43. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Ego
Kelley's Covariation Model
Internal Attribution
Treatment for Schizophrenia
44. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
Treatment for Schizophrenia
External Attribution
Cognitive Therapy
Token Economy
45. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
preoperational
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
conservation
46. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
Foot in the Door
concrete operational
Integrity vs Despair
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
47. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Cognitive Dissonance
projective tests
Behavior: Extinction Method
Transformation of Motivation
48. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Integrity vs Despair
Generativity vs Stagnation
WAIS
Cognitive Therapy
49. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
egocentrism
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Obedience
Criteria for Abnormal
50. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
To Reduce Dissonance...
Phobia Treatments
achievement test
Clinical Psychology