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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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1. Intended to reflect what you have already learned






2. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]






3. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others






4. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods






5. 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






6. 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)






7. 1) development is more continues than stage-like 2) changing procedures a little bit changes results a lot 3) methods culturally biased

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8. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments






9. Inconsistent behavior/confused






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






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






12. 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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13. Emotions about the object






14. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior






15. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause






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






17. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change






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






19. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology






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






21. Measuring the ability to concentrate - similarities: how are a thermometer and a ruler alike? - vocabulary: what does covert mean? - information: who was George Washington Carver?






22. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process






23. Physical vs. social interaction






24. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity






25. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)






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






27. Most common/successful intelligence test






28. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ






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






30. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort

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31. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'






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






33. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic






34. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life






35. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]






36. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have






37. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation






38. 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






39. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem






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






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






42. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes






43. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs






44. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth






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






46. Inconsistent behavior/confused






47. Change behavior - change attitude






48. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute






49. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]






50. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)