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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
lexical hypothesis
oral stage
Theory of Parental Investment
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
2. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Evolutionary Psych
Fundamental Attribution Error
Social Roles
Behavior Therapy
3. Beliefs about the object
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Theory of Parental Investment
anal stage
Superego
4. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
Public Conformity
Clinical Psychology
Phobia Treatments
attachment
5. 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
Trust vs Mistrust
Foot in the Door
Stages of Appraisal
Stanford Prison Study
6. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Stress as a Transaction
Treatment for Schizophrenia
difference between piaget and vygotsky
attachment
7. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group
Obedience
Emotional Distress
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Verbal Comprehension
8. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Emotional Distress
Attributions
Behavior Therapy
TriPartite Model: Behavior
9. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Stress as a Transaction
Public Conformity
Stanford Prison Study
Fundamental Attribution Error
10. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
anxiety
oral stage
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Verbal Comprehension
11. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
Social Roles
phallic stage
Processing Speed
Asch study
12. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Asch study
Stressors
Foot in the Door
13. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
DSM Axes
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Cooperation
Stages of Appraisal
14. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes
formal operational
External Attribution
DSM-IV-TR
Obedience
15. Emotions about the object
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
GAD Treatments
TriPartite Model: Affect
16. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
boy phallic stage
electra complex
Stressors as Stimuli
Treatment for Schizophrenia
17. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
HPA axis
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Stereotype
Superego
18. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
Initiative vs Guilt
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
anxiety
Schizophrenia
19. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Stressors as Stimuli
Stress as a Transaction
HPA axis
MMPI
20. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Identity vs Role Confusion
Stress
Flynn Effect
Stages of Appraisal
21. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Conformity
Fundamental Attribution Error
Statistical Deviance
22. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
achievement test
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cialdini's Compliance
formal operational
23. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Identity vs Role Confusion
Foot in the Door
Clinical Psychology
WAIS
24. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
Sheridan & King Study
object permanence
Attitude
sensorimotor
25. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
Health Psychology
Rational Emotive Therapy
Statistical Deviance
Criteria for Abnormal
26. No response to leaving or returning
Fundamental Attribution Error
Distress
Attributions
insecure-avoidant attachment
27. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Stanford Prison Study
Discrimination
Statistical Deviance
Processing Speed
28. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
insecure-avoidant attachment
Biopsychosocial Model
formal operational
Rosenhan Experiment
29. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Stages of Appraisal
Behavior Therapy
Social Roles
Attributions
30. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Causes of Schizophrenia
GAD Treatments
Trust vs Mistrust
Internalized Standard
31. 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?
projective tests
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Verbal Comprehension
Things that can influence IQ scores
32. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
internalization
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Asch study
TAT
33. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Ego
oedipus complex
anxiety
Theory of Parental Investment
34. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Ecclectic Therapists
Conformity
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
35. Against culture norms - behavior often paired with societal disapproval - disapproval is not enough (sexism - racism)
TriPartite Model: Behavior
internalization
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Cultural Deviance
36. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
latency stage
concrete operational
Pygmalion effect
Anxiety Disorder
37. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Milgrams Explanations
Evolutionary Psych
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Social Psychology
38. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
Distress
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Door in the Face
latency stage
39. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Cialdini's Compliance
Phobia Treatments
Distress
secure attachment
40. Study of the mental illness of the brain
Integrity vs Despair
Psychopathology
aptitude test
Prejudice
41. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Criteria for Abnormal
aptitude test
Theory of Parental Investment
Distress
42. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Intimacy vs Isolation
Biopsychosocial Model
Stanley Milgram Study
anal stage
43. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Door in the Face
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Stressors as Stimuli
internalization
44. Ask for a large favor first - followed up with something much smaller - if you say no - you may feel guilty and may say yes to a more reasonable request
Working Memory
zone of proximal development
Identity vs Role Confusion
Door in the Face
45. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
DSM-IV-TR
Stress as a Response
Internalized Standard
Trust vs Mistrust
46. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
insecure-anxious attachment
sensorimotor
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Internal Attribution
47. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Eustress
lexical hypothesis
Obedience
Coping Strategies for Stress
48. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
Cooperation
Factors that predict relationship success
MMPI
object permanence
49. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Ecclectic Therapists
Kelley's Covariation Model
boy phallic stage
50. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
phallic stage
secure attachment
Integrity vs Despair
Working Memory