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Elementary Psychology
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1. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
The Big Five
Attitude
zone of proximal development
insecure-avoidant attachment
2. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Harlow's Experiment
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
3. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Stressors as Stimuli
Schizophrenia
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
4. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
internalization
Transformation of Motivation
Cognitive Dissonance
Marucha Study
5. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
anal stage
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Cialdini's Compliance
Causes of Schizophrenia
6. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
phallic stage
egocentrism
Door in the Face
Things that can influence IQ scores
7. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Attributions
Cooperation
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
8. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
phallic stage
Discrimination
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Criteria for Abnormal
9. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Evolutionary Psych
Coping Strategies for Stress
Shaping
Dependence
10. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Evolutionary Psych
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Conformity
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
11. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
The Big Five
Trait Theory
Attributions
Obedience
12. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Fundamental Attribution Error
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Eustress
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
13. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
concrete operational
Pygmalion effect
Discrimination
anal stage
14. Beliefs about the object
girl phallic stage
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
girl phallic stage
TriPartite Model: Cognition
15. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
formal operational
disorganized attachment
Stressors as Stimuli
Stereotype
16. Study of the mental illness of the brain
Psychopathology
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Internal Attribution
preoperational
17. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Eustress
Dysfunction
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
GAD Treatments
18. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
Dysfunction
Public Conformity
Private Conformity
Statistical Deviance
19. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Marucha Study
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Identity vs Role Confusion
Private Conformity
20. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Phobia
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Dysfunction
DSM-IV-TR
21. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
General Adaptation Syndrome
Industry vs Inferiority
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Criteria for Abnormal
22. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
disorganized attachment
Pygmalion effect
Foot in the Door
phallic stage
23. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
Informational Influence
Conformity
projective tests
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
24. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
External Attribution
Stanford Prison Study
25. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Cialdini's Compliance
Ecclectic Therapists
electra complex
Normative Influence
26. Foot in the door vs door in the face
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27. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
aptitude test
Harlow's Experiment
insecure-anxious attachment
TAT
28. 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
Generativity vs Stagnation
Milgrams Explanations
attachment
29. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Causes of Schizophrenia
DSM-IV-TR
Things that can influence IQ scores
Stressors
30. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
TriPartite Model: Affect
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
disorganized attachment
Initiative vs Guilt
31. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Stress as a Transaction
Social Identity
Prejudice
Distress
32. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Distress
Realistic Conflict
Eustress
Satisfaction
33. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Normative Influence
Treatment for Schizophrenia
genital stage
Causes of Schizophrenia
34. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Biopsychosocial Model
Social Identity
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
preoperational
35. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
object permanence
Psychosis
electra complex
Criteria for Abnormal
36. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Milgrams Explanations
Stanley Milgram Study
Health Psychology
Stressors
37. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Ecclectic Therapists
disorganized attachment
DSM Axes
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
38. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Criteria for Abnormal
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Evolutionary Psych
Stressors
39. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
External Attribution
object permanence
Rational Emotive Therapy
sensorimotor
40. No response to leaving or returning
Attributions
Rational Emotive Therapy
Prejudice
insecure-avoidant attachment
41. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
phallic stage
Identity vs Role Confusion
Theory of Parental Investment
Intimacy vs Isolation
42. Digit span: repeat a set of numbers backwards - arithmetic: If Jessica has 3 packs of gum with 4 packs each - how many sticks will she have for herself if she gives 2 sticks each to 3 friends
Stereotype
Health Psychology
Working Memory
Coping Strategies for Stress
43. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
electra complex
Attributions
Initiative vs Guilt
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
44. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Milgrams Explanations
Personality
45. Sexually desire their mother
oedipus complex
oral stage
Cognitive Dissonance
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
46. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
electra complex
Transformation of Motivation
preoperational
Stereotype
47. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Health Psychology
Generativity vs Stagnation
Stressors
Internal Attribution
48. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Criteria for Abnormal
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Shaping
Flynn Effect
49. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Informational Influence
Emotional Distress
Coping Strategies for Stress
Anxiety Disorder
50. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
Ego
anal stage
concrete operational
Normative Influence