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Elementary Psychology
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1. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
insecure-avoidant attachment
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
electra complex
Transformation of Motivation
2. 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
disorganized attachment
Stress as a Response
Causes of Schizophrenia
electra complex
3. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Public Conformity
Cialdini's Compliance
To Reduce Dissonance...
oedipus complex
4. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
Attitude
Clinical Psychology
Obedience
Stressors
5. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
concrete operational
electra complex
disorganized attachment
Stages of Appraisal
6. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Things that can influence IQ scores
Stress
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
7. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Things that can influence IQ scores
Asch study
Stanley Milgram Study
Token Economy
8. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Anxiety Disorder
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Fundamental Attribution Error
Rosenhan Experiment
9. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
Asch study
Statistical Deviance
Behavior: Extinction Method
Ego
10. No response to leaving or returning
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
WAIS
Behavior Therapy
insecure-avoidant attachment
11. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
disorganized attachment
Informational Influence
boy phallic stage
12. 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
formal operational
Informational Influence
Door in the Face
Psychopathology
13. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
Things that can influence IQ scores
zone of proximal development
formal operational
Marucha Study
14. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Distress
TriPartite Model: Affect
Social Psychology
Stages of Appraisal
15. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Phobia
insecure-avoidant attachment
Clinical Psychology
Asch study
16. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Dysfunction
Factors that predict relationship success
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
HPA axis
17. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Behavior Therapy
Obedience
lexical hypothesis
Informational Influence
18. Study of the mental illness of the brain
Psychopathology
WAIS
Cognitive Therapy
Marucha Study
19. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Rosenhan Experiment
disorganized attachment
HPA axis
Phobia
20. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior
External Attribution
Trait Theory
disorganized attachment
Biopsychosocial Model
21. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
WAIS
Perceptual Organization
Informational Influence
Ecclectic Therapists
22. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Psychopathology
Pygmalion effect
conservation
Token Economy
23. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Basic Cognitive Therapy
object permanence
Perceptual Organization
Obedience
24. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Stressors
Stressors as Stimuli
Industry vs Inferiority
insecure-avoidant attachment
25. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
internalization
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Cognitive Therapy
Biopsychosocial Model
26. 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
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
egocentrism
27. Most common/successful intelligence test
Personality
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
boy phallic stage
WAIS
28. 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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29. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
oedipus complex
Stress
Discrimination
30. 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
Trust vs Mistrust
Shaping
Fundamental Attribution Error
Working Memory
31. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
Realistic Conflict
Evolutionary Psych
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
boy phallic stage
32. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Stressors
Superego
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Social Psychology
33. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Satisfaction
Stress
Eustress
TriPartite Model: Behavior
34. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Normative Influence
Stereotype
insecure-anxious attachment
35. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Marucha Study
Behavior Therapy
Internal Attribution
TriPartite Model: Affect
36. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
Anxiety Disorder
HPA axis
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
aptitude test
37. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Theory of Parental Investment
Personality
Cognitive Therapy
38. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
oral stage
insecure-anxious attachment
Behavior: Extinction Method
Social Psychology
39. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
phallic stage
TAT
Autonomy vs Doubt
Verbal Comprehension
40. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
Basic Cognitive Therapy
achievement test
Realistic Conflict
object permanence
41. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
preoperational
attachment
Cognitive Therapy
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
42. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
secure attachment
Satisfaction
Dependence
Evolutionary Psych
43. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
disorganized attachment
Obedience
Theory of Parental Investment
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
44. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
secure attachment
object permanence
TAT
Cultural Deviance
45. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Stress
Coping Strategies for Stress
Dependence
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
46. Worry that father will cut their penis off
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Discrimination
Dependence
castration complex
47. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Stanley Milgram Study
concrete operational
Internal Attribution
48. 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
Ecclectic Therapists
Social Psychology
DSM Axes
sensorimotor
49. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Identity vs Role Confusion
disorganized attachment
genital stage
50. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
Dependence
Sheridan & King Study
internalization
TAT