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Elementary Psychology
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1. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Processing Speed
Theory of Parental Investment
Rosenhan Experiment
Door in the Face
2. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
genital stage
girl phallic stage
attachment
GAD Treatments
3. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Biopsychosocial Model
Satisfaction
Health Psychology
Personality
4. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
insecure-anxious attachment
Trust vs Mistrust
Attributions
Anxiety Disorder
5. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
phallic stage
formal operational
Schizophrenia
insecure-avoidant attachment
6. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
WAIS
External Attribution
Behavior Therapy
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
7. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Discrimination
MMPI
Foot in the Door
electra complex
8. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
Cattell's Source Traits
Realistic Conflict
boy phallic stage
Stressors as Stimuli
9. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Informational Influence
Generativity vs Stagnation
Industry vs Inferiority
Cooperation
10. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
Public Conformity
Things that can influence IQ scores
zone of proximal development
DSM-IV-TR
11. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
Criteria for Abnormal
Milgrams Explanations
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
anal stage
12. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Stanley Milgram Study
Psychosis
Informational Influence
13. 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
Interdependence Theory
Internal Attribution
Satisfaction
14. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
electra complex
Stanley Milgram Study
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
phallic stage
15. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
DSM-IV-TR
Asch study
Industry vs Inferiority
zone of proximal development
16. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Criteria for Abnormal
Attitude
Causes for Phobias
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
17. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
latency stage
Criteria for Abnormal
Attitude
difference between piaget and vygotsky
18. Foot in the door vs door in the face
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19. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
internalization
Public Conformity
Stressors
TriPartite Model: Behavior
20. 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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21. Lived in End of Romatic Era (emphasis on expression - art - passion - sexuality relatively liberal) -grew up in Victorian Age (sexuality is taboo - emphasis on public decency/morality - paternal) -mothers first born and favorite child -love/hate rela
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22. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
anal stage
Sheridan & King Study
Cognitive Dissonance
TriPartite Model: Cognition
23. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
anal stage
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Personality
Clinical Psychology
24. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
Theory of Parental Investment
Social Identity
difference between piaget and vygotsky
MMPI
25. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Basic Cognitive Therapy
anal stage
Clinical Psychology
Dependence
26. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Initiative vs Guilt
oedipus complex
Milgrams Explanations
Intimacy vs Isolation
27. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Satisfaction
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Industry vs Inferiority
genital stage
28. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
aptitude test
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
DSM Axes
Fundamental Attribution Error
29. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
The Big Five
Stress as a Response
Internalized Standard
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
30. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Things that can influence IQ scores
Psychopathology
Psychopathology
girl phallic stage
31. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Conformity
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Flynn Effect
Stressors as Stimuli
32. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Autonomy vs Doubt
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Freud's Background Info
33. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
Criteria for Abnormal
Causes for Phobias
Evolutionary Psych
Initiative vs Guilt
34. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Behavior Therapy
disorganized attachment
Emotional Distress
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
35. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
anxiety
Verbal Comprehension
achievement test
HPA axis
36. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
HPA axis
GAD Treatments
Cultural Deviance
Ego
37. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Cognitive Dissonance
Coping Strategies for Stress
Identity vs Role Confusion
Asch study
38. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
Informational Influence
lexical hypothesis
latency stage
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
39. 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
Door in the Face
Eustress
Marucha Study
Trait Theory
40. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
Intimacy vs Isolation
Trait Theory
Theory of Parental Investment
phallic stage
41. No response to leaving or returning
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
insecure-avoidant attachment
Ecclectic Therapists
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
42. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
phallic stage
Stanley Milgram Study
To Reduce Dissonance...
achievement test
43. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Ego
Intimacy vs Isolation
Id
WAIS
44. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Biopsychosocial Model
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
latency stage
Cognitive Therapy
45. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Working Memory
HPA axis
Processing Speed
Stressors
46. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
HPA axis
Pygmalion effect
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Statistical Deviance
47. 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
oral stage
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
DSM Axes
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
48. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
projective tests
Emotional Distress
Stages of Appraisal
achievement test
49. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
lexical hypothesis
internalization
General Adaptation Syndrome
girl phallic stage
50. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Interdependence Theory
Id
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Generativity vs Stagnation