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Elementary Psychology
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1. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Ecclectic Therapists
To Reduce Dissonance...
TAT
Private Conformity
2. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Ecclectic Therapists
TriPartite Model: Behavior
External Attribution
3. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Pygmalion effect
Working Memory
Flynn Effect
Normative Influence
4. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Identity vs Role Confusion
Trust vs Mistrust
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
secure attachment
5. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Rosenhan Experiment
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Clinical Psychology
Eustress
6. Beliefs about the object
Statistical Deviance
Processing Speed
Stress as a Response
TriPartite Model: Cognition
7. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Causes of Schizophrenia
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Stages of Appraisal
achievement test
8. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Schizophrenia
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Anxiety Disorder
Ecclectic Therapists
9. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Trait Theory
concrete operational
Rational Emotive Therapy
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
10. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Behavior Therapy
Harlow's Experiment
Causes of Schizophrenia
Ecclectic Therapists
11. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Identity vs Role Confusion
Clinical Psychology
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Interdependence Theory
12. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Phobia
Informational Influence
electra complex
phallic stage
13. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Phobia Treatments
Autonomy vs Doubt
Asch study
14. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
concrete operational
Perceptual Organization
Causes of Schizophrenia
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
15. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
Door in the Face
object permanence
Initiative vs Guilt
Attitude
16. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Phobia
MMPI
Social Roles
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
17. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
Personality
sensorimotor
anxiety
Stress
18. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Token Economy
Autonomy vs Doubt
Social Psychology
boy phallic stage
19. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
Rosenhan Experiment
oedipus complex
Initiative vs Guilt
The Big Five
20. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Phobia
Realistic Conflict
Psychosis
Basic Cognitive Therapy
21. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Milgrams Explanations
Dysfunction
attachment
22. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
Dysfunction
attachment
Statistical Deviance
Social Roles
23. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
Generativity vs Stagnation
projective tests
Personality
achievement test
24. 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
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Psychosis
formal operational
anal stage
25. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
Cognitive Dissonance
zone of proximal development
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
aptitude test
26. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Sheridan & King Study
Obedience
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Criteria for Abnormal
27. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Behavior Therapy
conservation
anxiety
Internal Attribution
28. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Industry vs Inferiority
anxiety
Perceptual Organization
Intimacy vs Isolation
29. Study of the mental illness of the brain
Social Roles
Emotional Distress
Health Psychology
Psychopathology
30. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Evolutionary Psych
Working Memory
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Perceptual Organization
31. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Intimacy vs Isolation
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Internalized Standard
boy phallic stage
32. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Perceptual Organization
aptitude test
Foot in the Door
Biopsychosocial Model
33. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
Autonomy vs Doubt
Attitude
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Marucha Study
34. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
insecure-avoidant attachment
Cognitive Therapy
Processing Speed
girl phallic stage
35. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
latency stage
Psychosis
Freud's Background Info
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
36. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
egocentrism
Cognitive Therapy
Flynn Effect
37. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Cognitive Therapy
formal operational
disorganized attachment
38. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
Sheridan & King Study
preoperational
WAIS
Stressors
39. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior
insecure-avoidant attachment
Trait Theory
egocentrism
Coping Strategies for Stress
40. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
Public Conformity
Prejudice
Rational Emotive Therapy
TAT
41. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
Social Identity
Causes for Phobias
Obedience
zone of proximal development
42. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Emotional Distress
Internal Attribution
Trust vs Mistrust
Social Identity
43. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
Stanley Milgram Study
anal stage
oedipus complex
Behavior Therapy
44. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
zone of proximal development
Stressors
Cooperation
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
45. 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
Door in the Face
phallic stage
Phobia
preoperational
46. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Internal Attribution
attachment
Eustress
47. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Realistic Conflict
Statistical Deviance
latency stage
TriPartite Model: Behavior
48. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
WAIS
object permanence
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Rosenhan Experiment
49. Worry that father will cut their penis off
Stress
Behavior: Extinction Method
castration complex
Foot in the Door
50. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
HPA axis
Freud's Background Info
Theory of Parental Investment
Coping Strategies for Stress