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Elementary Psychology
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1. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Dysfunction
WAIS
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Basic Cognitive Therapy
2. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior
Trait Theory
Id
Statistical Deviance
lexical hypothesis
3. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Verbal Comprehension
Integrity vs Despair
Dependence
Trait Theory
4. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
object permanence
electra complex
Cattell's Source Traits
Private Conformity
5. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Obedience
Dependence
Integrity vs Despair
Normative Influence
6. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Id
Intimacy vs Isolation
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Internal Attribution
7. 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
Stress as a Response
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Ego
Treatment for Schizophrenia
8. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Stereotype
Phobia Treatments
Eustress
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
9. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Stress
Conformity
Attributions
Foot in the Door
10. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Eustress
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
disorganized attachment
11. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Kelley's Covariation Model
Prejudice
Cultural Deviance
12. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
Pygmalion effect
Cultural Deviance
Cognitive Therapy
insecure-anxious attachment
13. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
HPA axis
achievement test
Schizophrenia
attachment
14. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
External Attribution
Kelley's Covariation Model
Attitude
Treatment for Schizophrenia
15. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
GAD Treatments
electra complex
Informational Influence
Superego
16. 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
Internalized Standard
TAT
General Adaptation Syndrome
Discrimination
17. Foot in the door vs door in the face
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18. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Normative Influence
conservation
Informational Influence
Trust vs Mistrust
19. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
TriPartite Model: Affect
object permanence
Trust vs Mistrust
20. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Discrimination
Biopsychosocial Model
secure attachment
Cialdini's Compliance
21. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
object permanence
Sheridan & King Study
Conformity
TAT
22. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Trait Theory
Causes for Phobias
Stereotype
Cognitive Dissonance
23. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
MMPI
Identity vs Role Confusion
Schizophrenia
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
24. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Flynn Effect
HPA axis
zone of proximal development
Causes of Schizophrenia
25. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
The Big Five
Internal Attribution
External Attribution
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
26. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Public Conformity
Cognitive Therapy
concrete operational
27. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
phallic stage
Identity vs Role Confusion
Flynn Effect
Ecclectic Therapists
28. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Obedience
genital stage
WAIS
29. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
difference between piaget and vygotsky
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Stress as a Transaction
Stressors as Stimuli
30. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Coping Strategies for Stress
sensorimotor
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
31. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group
projective tests
WAIS
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
preoperational
32. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Schizophrenia
Conformity
Processing Speed
33. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
girl phallic stage
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
insecure-anxious attachment
Milgrams Explanations
34. Worry that father will cut their penis off
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
castration complex
projective tests
Freud's Background Info
35. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
phallic stage
Perceptual Organization
Cooperation
Autonomy vs Doubt
36. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Anxiety Disorder
Internal Attribution
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Processing Speed
37. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Integrity vs Despair
achievement test
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
MMPI
38. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes
attachment
DSM-IV-TR
latency stage
TriPartite Model: Cognition
39. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
aptitude test
Personality
Sheridan & King Study
Stereotype
40. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
TriPartite Model: Cognition
To Reduce Dissonance...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
41. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Criteria for Abnormal
Psychosis
Personality
HPA axis
42. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Trait Theory
oedipus complex
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
43. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Satisfaction
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Token Economy
Factors that predict relationship success
44. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
Social Psychology
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
preoperational
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
45. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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46. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
Stanley Milgram Study
genital stage
Normative Influence
DSM-IV-TR
47. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Stress as a Response
Private Conformity
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
48. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
zone of proximal development
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Conformity
49. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Causes of Schizophrenia
Trust vs Mistrust
MMPI
50. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Behavior: Extinction Method
phallic stage
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Schizophrenia