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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Foot in the Door
secure attachment
Stressors
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
2. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Intimacy vs Isolation
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Phobia Treatments
3. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
External Attribution
Rational Emotive Therapy
Discrimination
Personality
4. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Behavior Therapy
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Cattell's Source Traits
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
5. Most common/successful intelligence test
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
achievement test
WAIS
oral stage
6. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
TAT
Milgrams Explanations
Initiative vs Guilt
Token Economy
7. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Private Conformity
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
HPA axis
Behavior: Extinction Method
8. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Coping Strategies for Stress
Normative Influence
9. Physical vs. social interaction
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Private Conformity
insecure-anxious attachment
lexical hypothesis
10. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
Sheridan & King Study
Cialdini's Compliance
Distress
MMPI
11. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
preoperational
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Anxiety Disorder
Interdependence Theory
12. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Stanford Prison Study
Stages of Appraisal
Integrity vs Despair
Attributions
13. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
External Attribution
Kelley's Covariation Model
Shaping
Trait Theory
14. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
TAT
oral stage
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Anxiety Disorder
15. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Processing Speed
Generativity vs Stagnation
Foot in the Door
Cognitive Therapy
16. 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
Statistical Deviance
Causes of Schizophrenia
To Reduce Dissonance...
17. 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
Dependence
Milgrams Explanations
Internalized Standard
18. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Generativity vs Stagnation
Stages of Appraisal
Factors that predict relationship success
Psychosis
19. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
Distress
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Ecclectic Therapists
phallic stage
20. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
Criteria for Abnormal
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Conformity
Stress
21. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cooperation
Phobia
Psychosis
22. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Stanley Milgram Study
Internal Attribution
Generativity vs Stagnation
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
23. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
General Adaptation Syndrome
attachment
Industry vs Inferiority
Intimacy vs Isolation
24. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Superego
Distress
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Initiative vs Guilt
25. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
Prejudice
Satisfaction
aptitude test
Public Conformity
26. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
insecure-anxious attachment
Distress
Cialdini's Compliance
Normative Influence
27. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
anxiety
Kelley's Covariation Model
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Phobia Treatments
28. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Clinical Psychology
Working Memory
object permanence
Ecclectic Therapists
29. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
latency stage
Evolutionary Psych
Stressors
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
30. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Internal Attribution
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dependence
achievement test
31. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Rosenhan Experiment
To Reduce Dissonance...
Factors that predict relationship success
Internal Attribution
32. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Trust vs Mistrust
Autonomy vs Doubt
Cultural Deviance
The Big Five
33. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Cooperation
Psychosis
Social Psychology
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
34. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Stressors as Stimuli
latency stage
Flynn Effect
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
35. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Causes of Schizophrenia
Behavior: Extinction Method
The Big Five
36. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Statistical Deviance
HPA axis
Flynn Effect
insecure-avoidant attachment
37. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Conformity
Health Psychology
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Biopsychosocial Model
38. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
electra complex
castration complex
Causes of Schizophrenia
Integrity vs Despair
39. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Perceptual Organization
girl phallic stage
Kelley's Covariation Model
40. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
Sheridan & King Study
Statistical Deviance
anal stage
Public Conformity
41. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Criteria for Abnormal
Discrimination
Factors that predict relationship success
Psychosis
42. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Factors that predict relationship success
Stanford Prison Study
Things that can influence IQ scores
Perceptual Organization
43. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Eustress
Cooperation
Working Memory
aptitude test
44. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Marucha Study
Verbal Comprehension
Informational Influence
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
45. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
Ecclectic Therapists
Dysfunction
Stanford Prison Study
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
46. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
MMPI
girl phallic stage
Social Identity
castration complex
47. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
Ecclectic Therapists
Intimacy vs Isolation
Criteria for Abnormal
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
48. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Public Conformity
Internalized Standard
Private Conformity
Factors that predict relationship success
49. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Flynn Effect
insecure-avoidant attachment
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
50. Against culture norms - behavior often paired with societal disapproval - disapproval is not enough (sexism - racism)
Asch study
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Cultural Deviance
Behavior Therapy