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Elementary Psychology
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1. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
GAD Treatments
Attributions
To Reduce Dissonance...
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
2. 1. covariate: look for cause of behavior 2. consistency: does this pairing always occur? 3. distinctiveness: is this behavior rare in terms of frequency 4. consensus: do other people react the same way?
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3. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
Rational Emotive Therapy
Industry vs Inferiority
Prejudice
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
4. 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
General Adaptation Syndrome
Foot in the Door
Phobia
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
5. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
Cognitive Dissonance
Discrimination
Verbal Comprehension
Prejudice
6. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Public Conformity
Stress as a Response
Normative Influence
Door in the Face
7. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
insecure-avoidant attachment
Generativity vs Stagnation
Processing Speed
insecure-anxious attachment
8. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Anxiety Disorder
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Internalized Standard
Rational Emotive Therapy
9. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Statistical Deviance
Working Memory
Kelley's Covariation Model
Stereotype
10. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
TriPartite Model: Affect
Asch study
Social Identity
genital stage
11. 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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12. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Cooperation
Emotional Distress
Foot in the Door
sensorimotor
13. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Stress
Clinical Psychology
oedipus complex
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
14. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Dysfunction
Biopsychosocial Model
Integrity vs Despair
Pygmalion effect
15. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes
concrete operational
Cognitive Therapy
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
DSM-IV-TR
16. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
Social Psychology
Interdependence Theory
Transformation of Motivation
Behavior Therapy
17. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
GAD Treatments
preoperational
Industry vs Inferiority
18. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Integrity vs Despair
sensorimotor
Id
Private Conformity
19. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
object permanence
secure attachment
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Social Identity
20. 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?
Id
Behavior: Extinction Method
Verbal Comprehension
TriPartite Model: Affect
21. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Pygmalion effect
Stress
sensorimotor
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
22. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Id
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
GAD Treatments
electra complex
23. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Cialdini's Compliance
Phobia
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
24. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
disorganized attachment
zone of proximal development
internalization
Obedience
25. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
disorganized attachment
Foot in the Door
Theory of Parental Investment
Stress as a Response
26. Describes prolonged stress response in three stages 1. Alarm: fight or flight 2. Resistance: body uses resources to resist stress 3. Exhaustion: physiological response is depleted - become susceptible to illness/disease
Stanley Milgram Study
Intimacy vs Isolation
General Adaptation Syndrome
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
27. No response to leaving or returning
Stress as a Transaction
insecure-avoidant attachment
Causes for Phobias
attachment
28. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Health Psychology
Criteria for Abnormal
Evolutionary Psych
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
29. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Autonomy vs Doubt
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Stressors
insecure-anxious attachment
30. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Social Roles
Kelley's Covariation Model
Rosenhan Experiment
Shaping
31. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Attributions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Realistic Conflict
32. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
GAD Treatments
lexical hypothesis
internalization
Working Memory
33. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
castration complex
Stress as a Response
sensorimotor
Foot in the Door
34. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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35. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
projective tests
MMPI
Asch study
Cultural Deviance
36. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
girl phallic stage
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Token Economy
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
37. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Public Conformity
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Evolutionary Psych
electra complex
38. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Cognitive Dissonance
formal operational
Stressors
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
39. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
boy phallic stage
Anxiety Disorder
aptitude test
GAD Treatments
40. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Anxiety Disorder
Trust vs Mistrust
Psychopathology
internalization
41. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Attitude
girl phallic stage
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Behavior: Extinction Method
42. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
General Adaptation Syndrome
Pygmalion effect
Asch study
Clinical Psychology
43. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
secure attachment
Causes of Schizophrenia
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
castration complex
44. 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
Door in the Face
DSM Axes
attachment
45. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
External Attribution
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Flynn Effect
External Attribution
46. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
oedipus complex
Phobia
Satisfaction
Integrity vs Despair
47. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
DSM Axes
aptitude test
Cattell's Source Traits
projective tests
48. 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
Trust vs Mistrust
lexical hypothesis
Theory of Parental Investment
49. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Social Roles
formal operational
secure attachment
Verbal Comprehension
50. Beliefs about the object
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Sheridan & King Study
Rosenhan Experiment
Social Identity