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Elementary Psychology
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1. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
achievement test
Rational Emotive Therapy
Satisfaction
Verbal Comprehension
2. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Schizophrenia
Conformity
Generativity vs Stagnation
Satisfaction
3. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Marucha Study
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Attributions
Cattell's Source Traits
4. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Phobia
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Evolutionary Psych
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
DSM-IV-TR
General Adaptation Syndrome
electra complex
WAIS
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)
Marucha Study
projective tests
Stress
Perceptual Organization
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
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Industry vs Inferiority
Behavior Therapy
electra complex
9. Inconsistent behavior/confused
disorganized attachment
Generativity vs Stagnation
Harlow's Experiment
insecure-avoidant attachment
10. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
Prejudice
anal stage
Evolutionary Psych
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
11. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
castration complex
HPA axis
projective tests
TriPartite Model: Behavior
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
TriPartite Model: Affect
To Reduce Dissonance...
Stanley Milgram Study
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
14. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Distress
Health Psychology
Kelley's Covariation Model
Trait Theory
15. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
Psychosis
Identity vs Role Confusion
External Attribution
insecure-anxious attachment
16. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Stress as a Transaction
Normative Influence
conservation
TriPartite Model: Cognition
17. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Behavior Therapy
Social Psychology
Trust vs Mistrust
Clinical Psychology
18. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Cooperation
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Internalized Standard
19. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Psychosis
Attitude
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Fundamental Attribution Error
20. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Behavior Therapy
Realistic Conflict
boy phallic stage
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?
insecure-avoidant attachment
boy phallic stage
Sheridan & King Study
Verbal Comprehension
22. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Integrity vs Despair
Normative Influence
Internalized Standard
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
23. Physical vs. social interaction
Clinical Psychology
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Behavior: Extinction Method
Conformity
24. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Anxiety Disorder
Social Roles
anal stage
insecure-avoidant attachment
25. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
girl phallic stage
Dysfunction
Evolutionary Psych
Attributions
26. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
TriPartite Model: Behavior
The Big Five
Normative Influence
Criteria for Abnormal
27. Most common/successful intelligence test
Ego
phallic stage
The Big Five
WAIS
28. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Pygmalion effect
conservation
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
To Reduce Dissonance...
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
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
To Reduce Dissonance...
The Big Five
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'
Schizophrenia
Integrity vs Despair
GAD Treatments
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
32. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Criteria for Abnormal
Behavior: Extinction Method
Stanley Milgram Study
Id
33. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
zone of proximal development
Ecclectic Therapists
Rational Emotive Therapy
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
34. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
The Big Five
Identity vs Role Confusion
Phobia
Stress as a Response
35. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Autonomy vs Doubt
lexical hypothesis
Freud's Background Info
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
36. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Dependence
The Big Five
Distress
Cognitive Dissonance
37. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
phallic stage
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Ecclectic Therapists
Stanford Prison Study
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
Personality
Clinical Psychology
egocentrism
Foot in the Door
39. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
object permanence
Processing Speed
Cognitive Therapy
Trait Theory
40. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Biopsychosocial Model
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Shaping
Id
41. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
Verbal Comprehension
DSM-IV-TR
DSM Axes
Interdependence Theory
42. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes
Attributions
Public Conformity
DSM-IV-TR
Marucha Study
43. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Stages of Appraisal
Stressors as Stimuli
Generativity vs Stagnation
44. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
girl phallic stage
General Adaptation Syndrome
Door in the Face
Eustress
45. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
The Big Five
Behavior Therapy
Asch study
Health Psychology
46. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Stanford Prison Study
disorganized attachment
electra complex
Obedience
47. Change behavior - change attitude
Statistical Deviance
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
To Reduce Dissonance...
anxiety
48. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Discrimination
Obedience
Distress
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
49. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
Dysfunction
zone of proximal development
Cattell's Source Traits
girl phallic stage
50. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Anxiety Disorder
Private Conformity
TAT
Asch study