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Elementary Psychology
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1. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Realistic Conflict
Fundamental Attribution Error
electra complex
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
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
Stress as a Response
Dysfunction
Coping Strategies for Stress
zone of proximal development
3. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Psychopathology
Phobia Treatments
Obedience
Freud's Background Info
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)
Freud's Background Info
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Marucha Study
object permanence
5. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Attributions
Marucha Study
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Token Economy
6. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Ego
Realistic Conflict
boy phallic stage
7. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
boy phallic stage
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Biopsychosocial Model
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
8. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
egocentrism
girl phallic stage
Clinical Psychology
Interdependence Theory
9. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
internalization
MMPI
formal operational
zone of proximal development
10. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Stereotype
lexical hypothesis
Social Roles
preoperational
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
Normative Influence
External Attribution
Foot in the Door
zone of proximal development
12. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Verbal Comprehension
secure attachment
Token Economy
Stressors as Stimuli
13. Inconsistent behavior/confused
genital stage
Perceptual Organization
disorganized attachment
oral stage
14. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Cognitive Therapy
Clinical Psychology
Things that can influence IQ scores
Criteria for Abnormal
15. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior
preoperational
Stanford Prison Study
Trait Theory
DSM Axes
16. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Freud's Background Info
Interdependence Theory
Identity vs Role Confusion
Stress as a Transaction
17. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
zone of proximal development
Pygmalion effect
Social Identity
Generativity vs Stagnation
18. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
Cognitive Dissonance
object permanence
Conformity
HPA axis
19. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
Stress as a Transaction
Cialdini's Compliance
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Attitude
20. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Causes for Phobias
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
GAD Treatments
GAD Treatments
21. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
conservation
Social Identity
Cooperation
GAD Treatments
22. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Id
Pygmalion effect
Stanley Milgram Study
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
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
Door in the Face
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
General Adaptation Syndrome
Normative Influence
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
Schizophrenia
Social Roles
Flynn Effect
Cattell's Source Traits
26. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Rational Emotive Therapy
Stressors as Stimuli
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Causes of Schizophrenia
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?
Verbal Comprehension
General Adaptation Syndrome
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Satisfaction
28. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
lexical hypothesis
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Shaping
Informational Influence
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
Marucha Study
Stanford Prison Study
Cattell's Source Traits
Cialdini's Compliance
30. Change behavior - change attitude
Factors that predict relationship success
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
To Reduce Dissonance...
Cialdini's Compliance
31. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
Stanford Prison Study
Kelley's Covariation Model
HPA axis
Theory of Parental Investment
32. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Satisfaction
TriPartite Model: Affect
Dysfunction
33. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Dependence
Private Conformity
phallic stage
Causes of Schizophrenia
34. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
egocentrism
Shaping
Stressors as Stimuli
Obedience
35. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Sheridan & King Study
Internalized Standard
Stress
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
36. Study of the mental illness of the brain
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Initiative vs Guilt
Psychopathology
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
conservation
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dependence
Generativity vs Stagnation
39. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
castration complex
Autonomy vs Doubt
Identity vs Role Confusion
Personality
40. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Shaping
boy phallic stage
Attitude
41. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Phobia
Asch study
insecure-anxious attachment
Basic Cognitive Therapy
42. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Satisfaction
Behavior: Extinction Method
MMPI
43. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Satisfaction
egocentrism
Door in the Face
44. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Cognitive Dissonance
Rational Emotive Therapy
phallic stage
Integrity vs Despair
45. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
anal stage
Conformity
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
MMPI
46. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Causes of Schizophrenia
Attributions
Token Economy
genital stage
47. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Behavior: Extinction Method
formal operational
GAD Treatments
egocentrism
48. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Obedience
Phobia Treatments
Psychopathology
Cooperation
49. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Identity vs Role Confusion
Foot in the Door
Autonomy vs Doubt
Treatment for Schizophrenia
50. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
lexical hypothesis
Harlow's Experiment
anxiety