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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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1. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events






2. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior






3. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have






4. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)






5. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others






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






7. 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






8. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding






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






10. Inconsistent behavior/confused






11. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]






12. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return






13. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver






14. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something






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






16. 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






17. Foot in the door vs door in the face

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18. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality






19. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]






20. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family






21. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies






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






23. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'






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






25. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion






26. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]






27. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]






28. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request






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






30. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above






31. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group






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






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






34. Worry that father will cut their penis off






35. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation






36. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind






37. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]






38. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes






39. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]






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






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






42. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above






43. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc






44. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others






45. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort

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46. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse






47. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)






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






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






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