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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Phobia Treatments
Public Conformity
insecure-anxious attachment
Trust vs Mistrust
2. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
object permanence
Id
Working Memory
Evolutionary Psych
3. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
aptitude test
Eustress
secure attachment
Cooperation
4. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Emotional Distress
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
concrete operational
5. 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
Token Economy
insecure-avoidant attachment
TriPartite Model: Affect
6. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Stress as a Response
Prejudice
Psychosis
Personality
7. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
TriPartite Model: Behavior
anxiety
Emotional Distress
Causes of Schizophrenia
8. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
anxiety
Stanley Milgram Study
Behavior: Extinction Method
Obedience
9. 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
Causes for Phobias
Shaping
Clinical Psychology
Foot in the Door
10. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
Id
anal stage
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
GAD Treatments
11. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Coping Strategies for Stress
Stressors
DSM-IV-TR
Perceptual Organization
12. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Autonomy vs Doubt
Personality
Trait Theory
Industry vs Inferiority
13. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Asch study
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
object permanence
14. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Social Roles
Shaping
boy phallic stage
Marucha Study
15. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Behavior Therapy
Theory of Parental Investment
Door in the Face
achievement test
16. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
projective tests
Identity vs Role Confusion
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Conformity
17. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Trust vs Mistrust
oral stage
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Health Psychology
18. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
TriPartite Model: Affect
Interdependence Theory
Informational Influence
Stress as a Transaction
19. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
phallic stage
Interdependence Theory
Working Memory
concrete operational
20. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
GAD Treatments
Integrity vs Despair
Statistical Deviance
21. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
Things that can influence IQ scores
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Attitude
zone of proximal development
22. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution
oedipus complex
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
secure attachment
Milgrams Explanations
23. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
aptitude test
Social Roles
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
To Reduce Dissonance...
24. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Dysfunction
Distress
latency stage
25. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
Id
Causes of Schizophrenia
Flynn Effect
Ecclectic Therapists
26. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
aptitude test
Shaping
Interdependence Theory
phallic stage
27. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Phobia Treatments
Realistic Conflict
Stereotype
Psychosis
28. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Milgrams Explanations
genital stage
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
29. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Internalized Standard
Attributions
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
30. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Realistic Conflict
Perceptual Organization
Autonomy vs Doubt
Phobia
31. Sexually desire their mother
object permanence
oedipus complex
Causes for Phobias
attachment
32. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
insecure-avoidant attachment
preoperational
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Phobia
33. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
concrete operational
Internal Attribution
Stanford Prison Study
Emotional Distress
34. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Attitude
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Private Conformity
Schizophrenia
35. Beliefs about the object
TriPartite Model: Cognition
disorganized attachment
Social Identity
Dependence
36. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
anxiety
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Sheridan & King Study
Cultural Deviance
37. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Pygmalion effect
electra complex
Flynn Effect
Clinical Psychology
38. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Social Psychology
Milgrams Explanations
Obedience
Realistic Conflict
39. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Intimacy vs Isolation
Perceptual Organization
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
MMPI
40. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
External Attribution
Public Conformity
Stressors
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
41. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
internalization
Ego
Conformity
sensorimotor
42. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
Asch study
DSM Axes
genital stage
Emotional Distress
43. 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)
object permanence
Stressors as Stimuli
castration complex
Marucha Study
44. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
aptitude test
To Reduce Dissonance...
insecure-anxious attachment
45. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Intimacy vs Isolation
insecure-avoidant attachment
Stereotype
Kelley's Covariation Model
46. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Id
Cattell's Source Traits
Social Roles
Stress
47. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior
Trait Theory
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Psychopathology
48. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Public Conformity
Evolutionary Psych
zone of proximal development
Social Identity
49. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Cooperation
formal operational
Stanley Milgram Study
Trust vs Mistrust
50. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
Prejudice
lexical hypothesis
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
difference between piaget and vygotsky