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Elementary Psychology
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1. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Generativity vs Stagnation
2. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
Statistical Deviance
Distress
DSM Axes
attachment
3. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Door in the Face
Attitude
Flynn Effect
Biopsychosocial Model
4. Emotions about the object
Stages of Appraisal
Stress
secure attachment
TriPartite Model: Affect
5. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Schizophrenia
girl phallic stage
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Internalized Standard
6. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Schizophrenia
Health Psychology
TriPartite Model: Affect
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
7. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Ego
Fundamental Attribution Error
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
8. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Treatment for Schizophrenia
insecure-anxious attachment
Cialdini's Compliance
9. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Personality
Eustress
difference between piaget and vygotsky
TriPartite Model: Affect
10. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
Attributions
Fundamental Attribution Error
Anxiety Disorder
egocentrism
11. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
TriPartite Model: Behavior
disorganized attachment
Shaping
Phobia
12. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
Obedience
object permanence
secure attachment
internalization
13. Ask for a large favor first - followed up with something much smaller - if you say no - you may feel guilty and may say yes to a more reasonable request
Criteria for Abnormal
Door in the Face
Freud's Background Info
Ego
14. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
Stereotype
Obedience
Identity vs Role Confusion
Interdependence Theory
15. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Psychopathology
Realistic Conflict
aptitude test
16. 1. Problem Focused: tackle the stressor head on - usually occurs when optimistic and believe we can achieve our goals 2. Emotion Focused: try to place a more positive outlook on emotions - engage in behaviors to reduce painful emotions
Coping Strategies for Stress
Cognitive Therapy
The Big Five
MMPI
17. I. Clinical Disorders (alcohol dependence) II. Personality Disorders & Mental Retardation (antisocial personality disorder) III. Medical Conditions (cirrhosis of liver) IV. Social Functioning & stressors (death of child - marital stress) V. Global as
projective tests
DSM Axes
egocentrism
Trust vs Mistrust
18. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Working Memory
Dependence
Superego
Anxiety Disorder
19. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
difference between piaget and vygotsky
preoperational
MMPI
Attitude
20. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Stanford Prison Study
Obedience
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Cooperation
21. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
HPA axis
electra complex
Factors that predict relationship success
Intimacy vs Isolation
22. 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
Fundamental Attribution Error
Cultural Deviance
Stanford Prison Study
Causes for Phobias
23. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
castration complex
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Social Identity
24. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
Social Roles
phallic stage
Distress
Stanford Prison Study
25. No response to leaving or returning
Flynn Effect
MMPI
insecure-avoidant attachment
Satisfaction
26. Emotions about the object
oedipus complex
TriPartite Model: Affect
Causes for Phobias
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
27. 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
object permanence
Integrity vs Despair
Freud's Background Info
Foot in the Door
28. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Factors that predict relationship success
internalization
Conformity
29. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior
Trait Theory
TAT
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
30. 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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31. 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?
Stressors as Stimuli
Verbal Comprehension
Obedience
Trait Theory
32. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
oral stage
HPA axis
Dysfunction
Harlow's Experiment
33. 1. Intrustions: thinking about it when you don't want to 2. Avoidance: avoid anything that reminds you of the incident 3. Arousal: physically aroused from stimuli of event
anxiety
Causes of Schizophrenia
Criteria for Abnormal
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
34. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
GAD Treatments
Sheridan & King Study
latency stage
electra complex
35. Study of the mental illness of the brain
Stress
Cooperation
Psychopathology
DSM Axes
36. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Stereotype
External Attribution
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
37. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
Harlow's Experiment
boy phallic stage
Clinical Psychology
Internal Attribution
38. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Transformation of Motivation
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
concrete operational
39. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
Conformity
Social Identity
Interdependence Theory
Initiative vs Guilt
40. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
Cognitive Dissonance
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Personality
Cialdini's Compliance
41. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
castration complex
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Stanley Milgram Study
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
42. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
achievement test
MMPI
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
43. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
Attitude
Sheridan & King Study
Token Economy
Realistic Conflict
44. 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?
Kelley's Covariation Model
Verbal Comprehension
sensorimotor
Stress
45. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
DSM-IV-TR
conservation
Eustress
Harlow's Experiment
46. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Satisfaction
Conformity
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Cognitive Dissonance
47. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
conservation
General Adaptation Syndrome
Intimacy vs Isolation
48. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Rosenhan Experiment
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Superego
Social Psychology
49. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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50. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
MMPI
boy phallic stage
attachment
aptitude test