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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Psychosis
Anxiety Disorder
Things that can influence IQ scores
WAIS
2. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Shaping
General Adaptation Syndrome
3. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Satisfaction
Causes of Schizophrenia
object permanence
4. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
internalization
Kelley's Covariation Model
Public Conformity
Stress as a Transaction
5. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Harlow's Experiment
Stages of Appraisal
Pygmalion effect
6. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Verbal Comprehension
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Health Psychology
egocentrism
7. 1. Intrustions: thinking about it when you don't want to 2. Avoidance: avoid anything that reminds you of the incident 3. Arousal: physically aroused from stimuli of event
Verbal Comprehension
Satisfaction
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
difference between piaget and vygotsky
8. I. Clinical Disorders (alcohol dependence) II. Personality Disorders & Mental Retardation (antisocial personality disorder) III. Medical Conditions (cirrhosis of liver) IV. Social Functioning & stressors (death of child - marital stress) V. Global as
Cognitive Dissonance
Stress as a Transaction
Psychosis
DSM Axes
9. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Phobia
Private Conformity
Statistical Deviance
Phobia Treatments
10. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
Realistic Conflict
Conformity
Intimacy vs Isolation
Psychosis
11. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Psychosis
Stressors
HPA axis
Flynn Effect
12. 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
Foot in the Door
Dysfunction
TriPartite Model: Affect
sensorimotor
13. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
Attributions
insecure-avoidant attachment
Satisfaction
achievement test
14. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Realistic Conflict
Clinical Psychology
concrete operational
15. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Informational Influence
Shaping
MMPI
Processing Speed
16. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Prejudice
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
17. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
Health Psychology
latency stage
Stereotype
Eustress
18. 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?
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Verbal Comprehension
Discrimination
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
19. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Stress
secure attachment
HPA axis
internalization
20. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
Identity vs Role Confusion
Private Conformity
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Integrity vs Despair
21. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
Sheridan & King Study
latency stage
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Generativity vs Stagnation
22. 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)
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Phobia Treatments
Causes of Schizophrenia
Marucha Study
23. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
General Adaptation Syndrome
Social Identity
Working Memory
formal operational
24. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
conservation
Transformation of Motivation
lexical hypothesis
Things that can influence IQ scores
25. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Social Roles
Stress
girl phallic stage
Social Psychology
26. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Social Roles
Discrimination
Dysfunction
Biopsychosocial Model
27. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Clinical Psychology
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Behavior: Extinction Method
castration complex
28. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
attachment
Coping Strategies for Stress
Industry vs Inferiority
Behavior: Extinction Method
29. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Statistical Deviance
Stressors
object permanence
Prejudice
30. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
object permanence
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Foot in the Door
Coping Strategies for Stress
31. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Biopsychosocial Model
Autonomy vs Doubt
Social Roles
Identity vs Role Confusion
32. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Biopsychosocial Model
Trait Theory
Stanley Milgram Study
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
33. Study of the mental illness of the brain
HPA axis
Dysfunction
Phobia Treatments
Psychopathology
34. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution
Milgrams Explanations
Working Memory
Cooperation
insecure-anxious attachment
35. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
concrete operational
Cognitive Dissonance
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Cognitive Therapy
36. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Personality
oral stage
Foot in the Door
Pygmalion effect
37. Worry that father will cut their penis off
attachment
Social Roles
castration complex
GAD Treatments
38. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Processing Speed
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Satisfaction
39. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Foot in the Door
Phobia Treatments
Pygmalion effect
Evolutionary Psych
40. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
girl phallic stage
Stereotype
boy phallic stage
secure attachment
41. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
Satisfaction
castration complex
HPA axis
conservation
42. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
DSM Axes
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
sensorimotor
Id
43. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
anxiety
Public Conformity
latency stage
44. Digit span: repeat a set of numbers backwards - arithmetic: If Jessica has 3 packs of gum with 4 packs each - how many sticks will she have for herself if she gives 2 sticks each to 3 friends
attachment
Factors that predict relationship success
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Working Memory
45. Most common/successful intelligence test
WAIS
Health Psychology
internalization
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
46. I. Clinical Disorders (alcohol dependence) II. Personality Disorders & Mental Retardation (antisocial personality disorder) III. Medical Conditions (cirrhosis of liver) IV. Social Functioning & stressors (death of child - marital stress) V. Global as
Theory of Parental Investment
preoperational
DSM Axes
insecure-avoidant attachment
47. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Biopsychosocial Model
Theory of Parental Investment
Flynn Effect
attachment
48. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Social Psychology
Emotional Distress
Rosenhan Experiment
Stanford Prison Study
49. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Id
GAD Treatments
TriPartite Model: Behavior
50. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Door in the Face
lexical hypothesis
Attributions
Flynn Effect