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Elementary Psychology
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1. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
Sheridan & King Study
GAD Treatments
General Adaptation Syndrome
Initiative vs Guilt
2. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
boy phallic stage
Attitude
latency stage
3. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Industry vs Inferiority
Behavior: Extinction Method
Informational Influence
boy phallic stage
4. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
Emotional Distress
Shaping
GAD Treatments
Token Economy
5. 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)
Marucha Study
Satisfaction
attachment
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
6. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Dysfunction
conservation
Causes of Schizophrenia
Internal Attribution
7. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Causes for Phobias
Informational Influence
Foot in the Door
Causes of Schizophrenia
8. 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
Perceptual Organization
Stanford Prison Study
Interdependence Theory
Criteria for Abnormal
9. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
formal operational
Foot in the Door
Informational Influence
Stress as a Transaction
10. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Statistical Deviance
Cooperation
Verbal Comprehension
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
11. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
To Reduce Dissonance...
projective tests
Emotional Distress
Generativity vs Stagnation
12. 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
insecure-anxious attachment
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Stanford Prison Study
Causes of Schizophrenia
13. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Superego
anal stage
girl phallic stage
Processing Speed
14. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
Discrimination
Coping Strategies for Stress
Rational Emotive Therapy
MMPI
15. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Token Economy
Autonomy vs Doubt
secure attachment
Token Economy
16. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
Token Economy
Social Roles
formal operational
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
17. 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
Interdependence Theory
zone of proximal development
genital stage
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
18. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Cooperation
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Stereotype
zone of proximal development
19. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
preoperational
projective tests
Private Conformity
20. Against culture norms - behavior often paired with societal disapproval - disapproval is not enough (sexism - racism)
Cultural Deviance
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Interdependence Theory
Stanley Milgram Study
21. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Sheridan & King Study
Phobia
oedipus complex
Transformation of Motivation
22. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Flynn Effect
HPA axis
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
23. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
Theory of Parental Investment
concrete operational
egocentrism
Criteria for Abnormal
24. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
The Big Five
Emotional Distress
Trait Theory
Cognitive Dissonance
25. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
Sheridan & King Study
To Reduce Dissonance...
Initiative vs Guilt
TriPartite Model: Affect
26. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Biopsychosocial Model
TAT
DSM-IV-TR
27. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Door in the Face
Clinical Psychology
Stressors as Stimuli
lexical hypothesis
28. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
WAIS
Ecclectic Therapists
Cooperation
concrete operational
29. 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
Autonomy vs Doubt
sensorimotor
Stages of Appraisal
insecure-avoidant attachment
30. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
Freud's Background Info
Realistic Conflict
anal stage
Id
31. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
Perceptual Organization
Statistical Deviance
To Reduce Dissonance...
Generativity vs Stagnation
32. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
genital stage
anxiety
Stress as a Transaction
electra complex
33. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
insecure-anxious attachment
Stanford Prison Study
Cialdini's Compliance
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
34. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
Pygmalion effect
Ecclectic Therapists
Fundamental Attribution Error
internalization
35. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Social Identity
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
36. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
Attitude
MMPI
The Big Five
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
37. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Criteria for Abnormal
HPA axis
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Fundamental Attribution Error
38. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Statistical Deviance
Internal Attribution
Interdependence Theory
Flynn Effect
39. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Kelley's Covariation Model
Door in the Face
Identity vs Role Confusion
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
40. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Schizophrenia
disorganized attachment
Token Economy
Treatment for Schizophrenia
41. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
oedipus complex
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Behavior: Extinction Method
Criteria for Abnormal
42. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Generativity vs Stagnation
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Things that can influence IQ scores
Coping Strategies for Stress
43. Most common/successful intelligence test
Identity vs Role Confusion
Stanford Prison Study
WAIS
Generativity vs Stagnation
44. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
insecure-anxious attachment
Integrity vs Despair
Theory of Parental Investment
projective tests
45. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Rosenhan Experiment
Realistic Conflict
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
46. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
insecure-anxious attachment
Phobia Treatments
lexical hypothesis
Prejudice
47. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
Rational Emotive Therapy
lexical hypothesis
Theory of Parental Investment
Prejudice
48. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
anxiety
Theory of Parental Investment
Pygmalion effect
Eustress
49. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Stress
Phobia
Stanford Prison Study
castration complex
50. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Social Identity
secure attachment
Cialdini's Compliance
oral stage
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