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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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1. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups






2. Focus on the outcome of being in a situation that causes stress - stress is a physiological response Ex: fight or flight vs General Adaptation Syndrome






3. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding






4. Dental students were given a puncture wound in their mouth and measure how long it would heal - Results: wounds took longer to heal during exams than during the summer (stress)






5. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others






6. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms






7. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source






8. Cannot see things from another persons perspective






9. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]






10. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave






11. 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






12. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges






13. Inconsistent behavior/confused






14. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events






15. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior






16. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation






17. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]






18. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm






19. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something






20. Genetic component & environmental conditioning






21. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts






22. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams






23. Describes prolonged stress response in three stages 1. Alarm: fight or flight 2. Resistance: body uses resources to resist stress 3. Exhaustion: physiological response is depleted - become susceptible to illness/disease






24. 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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25. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world






26. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles






27. 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?






28. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner






29. 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






30. Change behavior - change attitude






31. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability






32. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism






33. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved






34. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior






35. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process






36. Study of the mental illness of the brain






37. Measure personality in basic units - named factors A - B - C - etc. - identified 16 factors - [ex=intelligence - boldness - insecurity - self-discipline - tension]

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38. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation






39. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting






40. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something






41. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events






42. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety






43. Cannot see things from another persons perspective






44. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior






45. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming






46. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others






47. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety






48. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding






49. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]






50. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger