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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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1. 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






2. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior






3. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill






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






5. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)






6. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]






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






8. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)






9. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies






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






11. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]






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






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






14. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse






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






16. 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






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






18. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity






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






20. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior






21. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction






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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]






28. 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






29. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting






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






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






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






33. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]






34. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts






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






36. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group






37. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty






38. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)






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






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






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






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






44. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved






45. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity






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






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






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. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)






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