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Elementary Psychology
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1. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
Satisfaction
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
anxiety
2. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
To Reduce Dissonance...
Theory of Parental Investment
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Statistical Deviance
3. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
Industry vs Inferiority
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
egocentrism
4. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
GAD Treatments
MMPI
insecure-avoidant attachment
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
5. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Theory of Parental Investment
Stanford Prison Study
Realistic Conflict
Phobia
6. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group
Health Psychology
Distress
latency stage
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
7. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
Treatment for Schizophrenia
concrete operational
Internal Attribution
TriPartite Model: Affect
8. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Working Memory
Clinical Psychology
Psychosis
Prejudice
9. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
insecure-anxious attachment
Initiative vs Guilt
Transformation of Motivation
Fundamental Attribution Error
10. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
achievement test
Token Economy
internalization
Ecclectic Therapists
11. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
electra complex
Generativity vs Stagnation
Token Economy
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
12. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
electra complex
girl phallic stage
attachment
TriPartite Model: Behavior
13. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Theory of Parental Investment
Attributions
Things that can influence IQ scores
Internalized Standard
14. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
lexical hypothesis
Stressors as Stimuli
Prejudice
Cognitive Dissonance
15. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Obedience
Intimacy vs Isolation
Discrimination
16. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Stanley Milgram Study
aptitude test
17. 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
Pygmalion effect
Foot in the Door
General Adaptation Syndrome
Anxiety Disorder
18. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
Superego
lexical hypothesis
Generativity vs Stagnation
Superego
19. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
Informational Influence
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Phobia
20. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Processing Speed
Sheridan & King Study
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
21. 1. Primary: must perceive that event is a threat to personal goals 2. Secondary: must conclude that resources to meet demands of event are unavailable
Stages of Appraisal
Stereotype
secure attachment
girl phallic stage
22. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
anxiety
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
anal stage
Cooperation
23. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Schizophrenia
Theory of Parental Investment
Ego
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
24. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Working Memory
Things that can influence IQ scores
Distress
25. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Causes for Phobias
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
External Attribution
26. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
Private Conformity
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Satisfaction
attachment
27. Beliefs about the object
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Stress
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Attitude
28. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
achievement test
Discrimination
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
29. Study of the mental illness of the brain
castration complex
insecure-avoidant attachment
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Psychopathology
30. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Rational Emotive Therapy
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Health Psychology
Distress
31. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
conservation
Satisfaction
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Informational Influence
32. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Interdependence Theory
Internal Attribution
Stress
33. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
anxiety
Evolutionary Psych
TriPartite Model: Affect
Door in the Face
34. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Clinical Psychology
TAT
Cooperation
Intimacy vs Isolation
35. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
Normative Influence
phallic stage
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Schizophrenia
36. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
genital stage
Superego
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Cognitive Dissonance
37. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Trait Theory
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
38. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Distress
castration complex
internalization
Processing Speed
39. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
preoperational
Rational Emotive Therapy
Factors that predict relationship success
Criteria for Abnormal
40. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Theory of Parental Investment
Cooperation
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Harlow's Experiment
41. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Initiative vs Guilt
insecure-anxious attachment
Cooperation
42. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
sensorimotor
Schizophrenia
electra complex
Behavior: Extinction Method
43. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Perceptual Organization
insecure-avoidant attachment
Psychopathology
Private Conformity
44. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Perceptual Organization
Token Economy
Stress as a Response
Marucha Study
45. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Social Roles
Anxiety Disorder
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
46. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
Transformation of Motivation
Personality
preoperational
Health Psychology
47. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Transformation of Motivation
Stressors as Stimuli
Verbal Comprehension
Distress
48. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
Biopsychosocial Model
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Token Economy
anxiety
49. 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
Initiative vs Guilt
Biopsychosocial Model
Stress as a Response
Kelley's Covariation Model
50. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
Private Conformity
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
secure attachment
Flynn Effect