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Elementary Psychology
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1. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Cognitive Therapy
lexical hypothesis
Schizophrenia
Stages of Appraisal
2. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Theory of Parental Investment
Coping Strategies for Stress
Internalized Standard
3. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Behavior: Extinction Method
Evolutionary Psych
Causes for Phobias
Cognitive Dissonance
4. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Internalized Standard
Stress as a Response
Intimacy vs Isolation
GAD Treatments
5. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Cattell's Source Traits
Fundamental Attribution Error
disorganized attachment
Statistical Deviance
6. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
projective tests
Identity vs Role Confusion
Stressors as Stimuli
Behavior: Extinction Method
7. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
Evolutionary Psych
The Big Five
Biopsychosocial Model
Conformity
8. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Distress
Attitude
Superego
Behavior: Extinction Method
9. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Autonomy vs Doubt
Cooperation
Satisfaction
conservation
10. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Fundamental Attribution Error
Internalized Standard
Criteria for Abnormal
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
11. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group
Public Conformity
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Satisfaction
12. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Stress as a Transaction
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
External Attribution
electra complex
13. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Door in the Face
Token Economy
Realistic Conflict
14. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
boy phallic stage
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Behavior: Extinction Method
Verbal Comprehension
15. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
Causes for Phobias
projective tests
Trait Theory
Sheridan & King Study
16. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
concrete operational
achievement test
GAD Treatments
Treatment for Schizophrenia
17. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Psychosis
Perceptual Organization
Social Psychology
girl phallic stage
18. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
sensorimotor
preoperational
Token Economy
Verbal Comprehension
19. Focus on the outcome of being in a situation that causes stress - stress is a physiological response Ex: fight or flight vs General Adaptation Syndrome
Token Economy
Stress as a Response
Dependence
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
20. No response to leaving or returning
Stressors as Stimuli
MMPI
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
insecure-avoidant attachment
21. Foot in the door vs door in the face
22. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Marucha Study
Verbal Comprehension
Integrity vs Despair
egocentrism
23. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Identity vs Role Confusion
Cultural Deviance
Coping Strategies for Stress
Asch study
24. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Shaping
MMPI
Cultural Deviance
Cattell's Source Traits
25. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
anal stage
Freud's Background Info
Kelley's Covariation Model
Sheridan & King Study
26. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Flynn Effect
Ego
Marucha Study
Evolutionary Psych
27. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Causes of Schizophrenia
WAIS
General Adaptation Syndrome
28. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
Internal Attribution
formal operational
Trait Theory
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
29. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
zone of proximal development
castration complex
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
30. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Harlow's Experiment
Factors that predict relationship success
Cattell's Source Traits
insecure-avoidant attachment
31. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Theory of Parental Investment
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Normative Influence
Milgrams Explanations
32. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
phallic stage
Superego
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Pygmalion effect
33. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Fundamental Attribution Error
Token Economy
Foot in the Door
Coping Strategies for Stress
34. Most common/successful intelligence test
WAIS
Evolutionary Psych
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Discrimination
35. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Ecclectic Therapists
insecure-avoidant attachment
Satisfaction
Clinical Psychology
36. Physical vs. social interaction
Phobia Treatments
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Perceptual Organization
Verbal Comprehension
37. 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
Door in the Face
Foot in the Door
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Attitude
38. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
internalization
Theory of Parental Investment
Trust vs Mistrust
Prejudice
39. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
attachment
Theory of Parental Investment
HPA axis
40. 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
egocentrism
Trait Theory
Internalized Standard
Stages of Appraisal
41. Focus on the outcome of being in a situation that causes stress - stress is a physiological response Ex: fight or flight vs General Adaptation Syndrome
sensorimotor
insecure-anxious attachment
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Stress as a Response
42. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Eustress
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Behavior: Extinction Method
43. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
insecure-anxious attachment
Internalized Standard
Internal Attribution
Flynn Effect
44. 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
Obedience
Dysfunction
Stanford Prison Study
Industry vs Inferiority
45. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
conservation
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Ecclectic Therapists
Identity vs Role Confusion
46. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Dysfunction
Coping Strategies for Stress
phallic stage
47. Worry that father will cut their penis off
Sheridan & King Study
Things that can influence IQ scores
Attitude
castration complex
48. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Emotional Distress
concrete operational
Eustress
49. Change behavior - change attitude
Shaping
Informational Influence
To Reduce Dissonance...
Trust vs Mistrust
50. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
boy phallic stage
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
anal stage
phallic stage