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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Private Conformity
Stages of Appraisal
Industry vs Inferiority
Trust vs Mistrust
2. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
DSM-IV-TR
HPA axis
Generativity vs Stagnation
3. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
Stressors
Industry vs Inferiority
egocentrism
Obedience
4. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
projective tests
Conformity
Obedience
Superego
5. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Psychosis
Stanford Prison Study
Attributions
Id
6. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
Distress
preoperational
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
TriPartite Model: Cognition
7. Change behavior - change attitude
Initiative vs Guilt
Schizophrenia
To Reduce Dissonance...
Dependence
8. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Fundamental Attribution Error
Interdependence Theory
Causes of Schizophrenia
Verbal Comprehension
9. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Causes of Schizophrenia
Internal Attribution
Ecclectic Therapists
Marucha Study
10. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
preoperational
Sheridan & King Study
Identity vs Role Confusion
Token Economy
11. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
Stress as a Response
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Foot in the Door
aptitude test
12. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Causes of Schizophrenia
Stanford Prison Study
concrete operational
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
13. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
Internal Attribution
Eustress
zone of proximal development
Superego
14. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
TAT
Phobia
projective tests
insecure-avoidant attachment
15. 1. covariate: look for cause of behavior 2. consistency: does this pairing always occur? 3. distinctiveness: is this behavior rare in terms of frequency 4. consensus: do other people react the same way?
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16. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Coping Strategies for Stress
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Shaping
Cognitive Dissonance
17. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
insecure-anxious attachment
Stereotype
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
18. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Personality
Fundamental Attribution Error
insecure-avoidant attachment
Theory of Parental Investment
19. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Dependence
WAIS
Fundamental Attribution Error
Stress as a Response
20. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
Ecclectic Therapists
Shaping
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
21. 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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22. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
secure attachment
Social Psychology
Marucha Study
23. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Perceptual Organization
Theory of Parental Investment
Schizophrenia
Superego
24. 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
lexical hypothesis
Stress
External Attribution
Stanford Prison Study
25. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Phobia Treatments
Identity vs Role Confusion
conservation
oedipus complex
26. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Stress as a Transaction
Distress
Harlow's Experiment
Attributions
27. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Transformation of Motivation
castration complex
Theory of Parental Investment
Stanley Milgram Study
28. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Internal Attribution
The Big Five
Rosenhan Experiment
Cognitive Therapy
29. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Attitude
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Psychopathology
30. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
Causes for Phobias
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
difference between piaget and vygotsky
latency stage
31. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
anal stage
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Cattell's Source Traits
MMPI
32. 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
Stanford Prison Study
Pygmalion effect
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
33. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
Distress
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Prejudice
Public Conformity
34. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
Generativity vs Stagnation
Working Memory
internalization
Public Conformity
35. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
oral stage
MMPI
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
zone of proximal development
36. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Trust vs Mistrust
External Attribution
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
TriPartite Model: Behavior
37. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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38. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Verbal Comprehension
girl phallic stage
Stress as a Transaction
To Reduce Dissonance...
39. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Cultural Deviance
Autonomy vs Doubt
Processing Speed
Basic Cognitive Therapy
40. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Clinical Psychology
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
zone of proximal development
Treatment for Schizophrenia
41. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
MMPI
Prejudice
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Internalized Standard
42. Beliefs about the object
Pygmalion effect
Psychopathology
Initiative vs Guilt
TriPartite Model: Cognition
43. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Behavior Therapy
attachment
Attitude
44. Describes prolonged stress response in three stages 1. Alarm: fight or flight 2. Resistance: body uses resources to resist stress 3. Exhaustion: physiological response is depleted - become susceptible to illness/disease
Initiative vs Guilt
Prejudice
General Adaptation Syndrome
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
45. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
attachment
sensorimotor
Phobia Treatments
Stages of Appraisal
46. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
GAD Treatments
Stressors
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
oral stage
47. 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
Internal Attribution
DSM Axes
General Adaptation Syndrome
Stanford Prison Study
48. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Realistic Conflict
Criteria for Abnormal
Dependence
Attitude
49. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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50. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
latency stage
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Behavior Therapy
Promoting Healthy Behaviors