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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic






2. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality






3. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation






4. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments






5. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person






6. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting






7. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)






8. Genetic component & environmental conditioning






9. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind






10. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through






11. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat






12. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles






13. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group






14. Foot in the door vs door in the face

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15. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots






16. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]






17. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal






18. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors






19. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments






20. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic






21. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above






22. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy






23. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion






24. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses






25. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed






26. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety






27. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family






28. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams






29. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk






30. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'






31. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would






32. Study of the mental illness of the brain






33. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source






34. Beliefs about the object






35. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something






36. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior






37. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father






38. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others






39. Ask for a large favor first - followed up with something much smaller - if you say no - you may feel guilty and may say yes to a more reasonable request






40. Most common/successful intelligence test






41. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father






42. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms






43. Emotions about the object






44. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups






45. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic






46. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges






47. 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






48. 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






49. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism






50. 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