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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
insecure-avoidant attachment
Autonomy vs Doubt
Social Identity
TriPartite Model: Cognition
2. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Cultural Deviance
Phobia
GAD Treatments
Integrity vs Despair
3. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
boy phallic stage
Attitude
anal stage
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
4. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
HPA axis
Cognitive Therapy
Trait Theory
Things that can influence IQ scores
5. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
General Adaptation Syndrome
Public Conformity
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
sensorimotor
6. 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?
Verbal Comprehension
Intimacy vs Isolation
Kelley's Covariation Model
WAIS
7. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Fundamental Attribution Error
Stressors as Stimuli
Cognitive Dissonance
disorganized attachment
8. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Anxiety Disorder
Phobia Treatments
General Adaptation Syndrome
Stress as a Response
9. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Shaping
Superego
Psychosis
Token Economy
10. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
insecure-anxious attachment
achievement test
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Factors that predict relationship success
11. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
zone of proximal development
Asch study
External Attribution
Causes for Phobias
12. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
insecure-anxious attachment
projective tests
Social Psychology
Clinical Psychology
13. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
MMPI
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Coping Strategies for Stress
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
14. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Social Roles
Stress
sensorimotor
preoperational
15. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
Stress
phallic stage
Ecclectic Therapists
Realistic Conflict
16. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
conservation
Dependence
Shaping
Causes for Phobias
17. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
Realistic Conflict
Discrimination
Cattell's Source Traits
aptitude test
18. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Stress as a Response
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Shaping
19. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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20. Foot in the door vs door in the face
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21. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Integrity vs Despair
Stereotype
oral stage
Treatment for Schizophrenia
22. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
Stanford Prison Study
Biopsychosocial Model
Biopsychosocial Model
GAD Treatments
23. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
MMPI
Obedience
Causes of Schizophrenia
concrete operational
24. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
internalization
Superego
sensorimotor
25. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
External Attribution
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
General Adaptation Syndrome
TriPartite Model: Cognition
26. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Generativity vs Stagnation
DSM Axes
Phobia Treatments
genital stage
27. 1) development is more continues than stage-like 2) changing procedures a little bit changes results a lot 3) methods culturally biased
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28. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
Things that can influence IQ scores
Criteria for Abnormal
egocentrism
Transformation of Motivation
29. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
Cognitive Dissonance
TriPartite Model: Cognition
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Obedience
30. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Flynn Effect
Stressors
Shaping
Social Identity
31. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Cognitive Therapy
Flynn Effect
HPA axis
Processing Speed
32. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Things that can influence IQ scores
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Working Memory
33. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Flynn Effect
Causes of Schizophrenia
girl phallic stage
General Adaptation Syndrome
34. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
Things that can influence IQ scores
Obedience
Perceptual Organization
TAT
35. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Emotional Distress
Stanley Milgram Study
Informational Influence
Biopsychosocial Model
36. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Attributions
Realistic Conflict
Cognitive Dissonance
Biopsychosocial Model
37. 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
Anxiety Disorder
castration complex
Stanford Prison Study
Statistical Deviance
38. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
preoperational
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Private Conformity
39. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Stressors
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia
girl phallic stage
40. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Stereotype
object permanence
Phobia
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
41. Study of the mental illness of the brain
Schizophrenia
Psychopathology
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
zone of proximal development
42. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Basic Cognitive Therapy
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Autonomy vs Doubt
Rosenhan Experiment
43. Against culture norms - behavior often paired with societal disapproval - disapproval is not enough (sexism - racism)
Cultural Deviance
Id
Autonomy vs Doubt
GAD Treatments
44. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
Asch study
projective tests
DSM-IV-TR
Statistical Deviance
45. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Intimacy vs Isolation
genital stage
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Stanford Prison Study
46. 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
Foot in the Door
concrete operational
Health Psychology
GAD Treatments
47. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Factors that predict relationship success
Behavior Therapy
Causes for Phobias
preoperational
48. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Clinical Psychology
HPA axis
General Adaptation Syndrome
Cooperation
49. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
HPA axis
Treatment for Schizophrenia
castration complex
oral stage
50. Worry that father will cut their penis off
Initiative vs Guilt
Statistical Deviance
castration complex
Anxiety Disorder