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Elementary Psychology
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1. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
TriPartite Model: Affect
Autonomy vs Doubt
Stress
Factors that predict relationship success
2. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Distress
Normative Influence
Behavior Therapy
Dysfunction
3. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Stressors
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Dysfunction
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
4. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Stressors as Stimuli
attachment
Informational Influence
Health Psychology
5. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Interdependence Theory
Intimacy vs Isolation
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Harlow's Experiment
6. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
Satisfaction
Treatment for Schizophrenia
preoperational
External Attribution
7. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
TAT
Public Conformity
Rational Emotive Therapy
Health Psychology
8. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Internalized Standard
Cattell's Source Traits
Coping Strategies for Stress
9. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Causes of Schizophrenia
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
10. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
girl phallic stage
disorganized attachment
Social Psychology
conservation
11. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Causes of Schizophrenia
Cattell's Source Traits
genital stage
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
12. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Cooperation
Theory of Parental Investment
Internalized Standard
Internal Attribution
13. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
MMPI
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Public Conformity
Superego
14. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Evolutionary Psych
Public Conformity
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
15. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
Id
Obedience
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Asch study
16. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Psychopathology
Asch study
Pygmalion effect
Stress as a Transaction
17. Sexually desire their mother
Ego
oedipus complex
aptitude test
Cognitive Therapy
18. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
Verbal Comprehension
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Psychopathology
19. Change behavior - change attitude
Realistic Conflict
anxiety
Rational Emotive Therapy
To Reduce Dissonance...
20. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Stereotype
Kelley's Covariation Model
Shaping
Eustress
21. 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
Initiative vs Guilt
HPA axis
Causes for Phobias
DSM Axes
22. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Intimacy vs Isolation
Ego
Ecclectic Therapists
Stressors
23. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
Ecclectic Therapists
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Id
Coping Strategies for Stress
24. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Prejudice
Factors that predict relationship success
girl phallic stage
Coping Strategies for Stress
25. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Stress as a Transaction
secure attachment
Ego
26. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
object permanence
phallic stage
insecure-anxious attachment
Emotional Distress
27. No response to leaving or returning
Social Psychology
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Autonomy vs Doubt
insecure-avoidant attachment
28. 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
attachment
Asch study
Marucha Study
Foot in the Door
29. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
Generativity vs Stagnation
phallic stage
Satisfaction
Superego
30. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Anxiety Disorder
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
conservation
Distress
31. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Sheridan & King Study
lexical hypothesis
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Realistic Conflict
32. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Verbal Comprehension
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Cooperation
Cognitive Dissonance
33. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Theory of Parental Investment
Marucha Study
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Cognitive Dissonance
34. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Private Conformity
TAT
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Stressors
35. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution
genital stage
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Milgrams Explanations
TAT
36. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Superego
Factors that predict relationship success
disorganized attachment
aptitude test
37. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
Theory of Parental Investment
Prejudice
Fundamental Attribution Error
Asch study
38. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Health Psychology
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Superego
Rosenhan Experiment
39. 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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40. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Industry vs Inferiority
Initiative vs Guilt
Freud's Background Info
41. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Cognitive Therapy
formal operational
MMPI
Things that can influence IQ scores
42. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
latency stage
achievement test
attachment
preoperational
43. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Schizophrenia
Marucha Study
Private Conformity
Things that can influence IQ scores
44. 1. Problem Focused: tackle the stressor head on - usually occurs when optimistic and believe we can achieve our goals 2. Emotion Focused: try to place a more positive outlook on emotions - engage in behaviors to reduce painful emotions
concrete operational
internalization
Coping Strategies for Stress
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
45. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
secure attachment
Transformation of Motivation
Stress as a Transaction
Freud's Background Info
46. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
anxiety
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
MMPI
Rosenhan Experiment
47. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
To Reduce Dissonance...
castration complex
projective tests
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
48. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
achievement test
Cooperation
Normative Influence
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
49. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
DSM Axes
boy phallic stage
Distress
Psychosis
50. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
Prejudice
latency stage
Eustress
Generativity vs Stagnation