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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic






2. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments






3. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses






4. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology






5. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return






6. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups






7. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]






8. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction






9. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic






10. Change behavior - change attitude






11. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back






12. Intended to reflect what you have already learned






13. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures






14. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes






15. Physical vs. social interaction






16. Predisposition to act - actions in the past






17. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives






18. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]






19. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have






20. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]






21. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts






22. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups






23. Study of the mental illness of the brain






24. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal






25. Objects are remembered even when out of sight






26. 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)






27. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)






28. 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






29. Most common/successful intelligence test






30. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms






31. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above






32. 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?






33. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process






34. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior






35. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm






36. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person






37. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]






38. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world






39. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'






40. 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






41. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures






42. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation






43. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]






44. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause






45. No response to leaving or returning






46. Physical vs. social interaction






47. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots






48. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person






49. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution






50. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams