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Elementary Psychology
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1. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
TriPartite Model: Affect
Cattell's Source Traits
Stressors
Autonomy vs Doubt
2. Inconsistent behavior/confused
disorganized attachment
sensorimotor
Private Conformity
Interdependence Theory
3. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
Sheridan & King Study
Biopsychosocial Model
Conformity
Eustress
4. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Cognitive Therapy
electra complex
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
5. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
girl phallic stage
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
conservation
Trust vs Mistrust
6. 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
Dysfunction
boy phallic stage
Intimacy vs Isolation
Foot in the Door
7. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
Stressors
Cognitive Dissonance
Transformation of Motivation
Coping Strategies for Stress
8. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Pygmalion effect
preoperational
Ego
Cooperation
9. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
Social Psychology
Stress
Cattell's Source Traits
phallic stage
10. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
MMPI
Private Conformity
anal stage
Stress as a Transaction
11. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Harlow's Experiment
insecure-anxious attachment
conservation
Evolutionary Psych
12. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
TAT
Coping Strategies for Stress
disorganized attachment
Cooperation
13. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Factors that predict relationship success
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Phobia Treatments
Attitude
14. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
GAD Treatments
Stressors as Stimuli
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
15. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Freud's Background Info
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
16. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
anxiety
Stress
Identity vs Role Confusion
Marucha Study
17. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
Initiative vs Guilt
object permanence
Integrity vs Despair
Internal Attribution
18. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Stress as a Transaction
Internal Attribution
Fundamental Attribution Error
GAD Treatments
19. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Milgrams Explanations
Emotional Distress
Phobia Treatments
Id
20. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Freud's Background Info
electra complex
Cattell's Source Traits
Behavior: Extinction Method
21. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Cognitive Dissonance
Phobia Treatments
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
concrete operational
22. Foot in the door vs door in the face
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23. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Attributions
Phobia Treatments
egocentrism
Rosenhan Experiment
24. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
Distress
attachment
Kelley's Covariation Model
GAD Treatments
25. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
To Reduce Dissonance...
object permanence
internalization
formal operational
26. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Pygmalion effect
Stereotype
Behavior Therapy
Trait Theory
27. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
Intimacy vs Isolation
Dependence
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
aptitude test
28. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Pygmalion effect
Satisfaction
Flynn Effect
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
29. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Stress
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Trust vs Mistrust
internalization
30. Study of the mental illness of the brain
latency stage
Superego
MMPI
Psychopathology
31. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Trust vs Mistrust
Processing Speed
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Biopsychosocial Model
32. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
oedipus complex
Stanley Milgram Study
aptitude test
boy phallic stage
33. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
Token Economy
Eustress
conservation
Satisfaction
34. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
Coping Strategies for Stress
oral stage
Stress
Door in the Face
35. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Kelley's Covariation Model
Superego
Asch study
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
36. 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
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
DSM Axes
Foot in the Door
Informational Influence
37. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution
Generativity vs Stagnation
To Reduce Dissonance...
Milgrams Explanations
Social Identity
38. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Behavior Therapy
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Criteria for Abnormal
Processing Speed
39. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Causes of Schizophrenia
Cialdini's Compliance
Industry vs Inferiority
General Adaptation Syndrome
40. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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41. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
insecure-anxious attachment
Flynn Effect
Stress
Trait Theory
42. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
HPA axis
Normative Influence
zone of proximal development
Stages of Appraisal
43. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Stress
Fundamental Attribution Error
Token Economy
Marucha Study
44. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
HPA axis
Things that can influence IQ scores
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
45. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Transformation of Motivation
Phobia
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Attributions
46. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Causes of Schizophrenia
Emotional Distress
Dependence
47. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Evolutionary Psych
Factors that predict relationship success
Industry vs Inferiority
Kelley's Covariation Model
48. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
egocentrism
Health Psychology
Public Conformity
Psychosis
49. 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
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Coping Strategies for Stress
Public Conformity
Integrity vs Despair
50. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Stress as a Response
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Anxiety Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms