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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Perceptual Organization
Trust vs Mistrust
Cognitive Dissonance
Autonomy vs Doubt
2. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
secure attachment
Perceptual Organization
Door in the Face
difference between piaget and vygotsky
3. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Door in the Face
Cooperation
Stressors as Stimuli
Personality
4. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Prejudice
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Flynn Effect
formal operational
5. Beliefs about the object
Pygmalion effect
Initiative vs Guilt
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Stanford Prison Study
6. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Theory of Parental Investment
Identity vs Role Confusion
MMPI
Criteria for Abnormal
7. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
oedipus complex
Conformity
Id
preoperational
8. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
To Reduce Dissonance...
sensorimotor
Dependence
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
9. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Asch study
Biopsychosocial Model
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
disorganized attachment
10. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Behavior Therapy
Anxiety Disorder
Foot in the Door
Factors that predict relationship success
11. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
Stanford Prison Study
Theory of Parental Investment
Stress as a Transaction
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
12. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
phallic stage
Autonomy vs Doubt
Public Conformity
Evolutionary Psych
13. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
Realistic Conflict
Dysfunction
sensorimotor
TriPartite Model: Cognition
14. Sexually desire their mother
difference between piaget and vygotsky
oedipus complex
Cooperation
genital stage
15. 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
Identity vs Role Confusion
Foot in the Door
zone of proximal development
MMPI
16. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Causes of Schizophrenia
Obedience
Realistic Conflict
Social Psychology
17. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Factors that predict relationship success
The Big Five
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
TAT
18. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
oedipus complex
To Reduce Dissonance...
TAT
Stress as a Transaction
19. Study of the mental illness of the brain
secure attachment
Psychopathology
sensorimotor
preoperational
20. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
Behavior Therapy
Rosenhan Experiment
genital stage
egocentrism
21. 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)
Superego
Marucha Study
Dysfunction
Informational Influence
22. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
egocentrism
Marucha Study
Kelley's Covariation Model
23. 1) development is more continues than stage-like 2) changing procedures a little bit changes results a lot 3) methods culturally biased
24. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
object permanence
Superego
Ego
Attitude
25. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Cultural Deviance
Eustress
formal operational
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
26. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
genital stage
Normative Influence
Prejudice
Door in the Face
27. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Ecclectic Therapists
Stressors
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
External Attribution
28. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
Industry vs Inferiority
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
29. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
preoperational
Psychopathology
object permanence
phallic stage
30. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
attachment
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
31. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Social Roles
Stress
DSM-IV-TR
Pygmalion effect
32. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
Stereotype
insecure-anxious attachment
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
33. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Autonomy vs Doubt
Internal Attribution
Health Psychology
Attributions
34. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
girl phallic stage
Stanley Milgram Study
Flynn Effect
Emotional Distress
35. 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?
36. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Theory of Parental Investment
achievement test
37. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Stereotype
Public Conformity
38. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
TriPartite Model: Behavior
lexical hypothesis
Theory of Parental Investment
Token Economy
39. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Internalized Standard
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Harlow's Experiment
40. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
Attitude
Stressors
TriPartite Model: Affect
secure attachment
41. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Stress
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
projective tests
Dependence
42. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Stanley Milgram Study
object permanence
electra complex
43. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Cialdini's Compliance
Evolutionary Psych
Causes for Phobias
phallic stage
44. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
zone of proximal development
External Attribution
internalization
45. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Transformation of Motivation
Cooperation
projective tests
Factors that predict relationship success
46. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
lexical hypothesis
Door in the Face
Coping Strategies for Stress
egocentrism
47. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Evolutionary Psych
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Discrimination
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
48. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
Autonomy vs Doubt
object permanence
achievement test
Behavior: Extinction Method
49. 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?
oral stage
castration complex
Processing Speed
Verbal Comprehension
50. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
Statistical Deviance
Milgrams Explanations
phallic stage
internalization