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Elementary Psychology
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psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Initiative vs Guilt
Identity vs Role Confusion
anxiety
Processing Speed
2. 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
Theory of Parental Investment
Informational Influence
Distress
Working Memory
3. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
phallic stage
Internal Attribution
latency stage
Stress
4. Most common/successful intelligence test
HPA axis
WAIS
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
5. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
External Attribution
electra complex
Generativity vs Stagnation
zone of proximal development
6. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
secure attachment
Fundamental Attribution Error
Rosenhan Experiment
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
7. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior
Biopsychosocial Model
Personality
Trait Theory
Health Psychology
8. Change behavior - change attitude
Milgrams Explanations
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Rational Emotive Therapy
To Reduce Dissonance...
9. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Attributions
GAD Treatments
Realistic Conflict
Dependence
10. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
latency stage
Interdependence Theory
Initiative vs Guilt
Flynn Effect
11. Physical vs. social interaction
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Psychosis
Social Psychology
DSM-IV-TR
12. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
attachment
disorganized attachment
anal stage
Token Economy
13. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
Attitude
The Big Five
MMPI
anal stage
14. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
External Attribution
Cooperation
Public Conformity
Schizophrenia
15. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
Initiative vs Guilt
Normative Influence
Phobia Treatments
insecure-avoidant attachment
16. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Ecclectic Therapists
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Integrity vs Despair
17. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
egocentrism
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
concrete operational
Stress as a Transaction
18. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Stanford Prison Study
Kelley's Covariation Model
Emotional Distress
Cognitive Dissonance
19. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
To Reduce Dissonance...
Harlow's Experiment
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
difference between piaget and vygotsky
20. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Ego
Freud's Background Info
Psychosis
secure attachment
21. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
phallic stage
Prejudice
disorganized attachment
anxiety
22. Emotions about the object
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Trait Theory
girl phallic stage
TriPartite Model: Affect
23. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Things that can influence IQ scores
DSM Axes
Marucha Study
Dysfunction
24. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Asch study
Normative Influence
anal stage
Attitude
25. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
anal stage
boy phallic stage
Criteria for Abnormal
zone of proximal development
26. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
Phobia
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
MMPI
Things that can influence IQ scores
27. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Freud's Background Info
Schizophrenia
Stanford Prison Study
Sheridan & King Study
28. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Door in the Face
TAT
attachment
electra complex
29. 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
Stages of Appraisal
Informational Influence
preoperational
Basic Cognitive Therapy
30. Sexually desire their mother
Behavior Therapy
Perceptual Organization
Identity vs Role Confusion
oedipus complex
31. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Attitude
oral stage
insecure-anxious attachment
32. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
lexical hypothesis
Stressors
Rational Emotive Therapy
Trait Theory
33. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
External Attribution
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Personality
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
34. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Behavior Therapy
Autonomy vs Doubt
Working Memory
35. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Informational Influence
WAIS
GAD Treatments
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
36. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Obedience
Discrimination
GAD Treatments
genital stage
37. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Cialdini's Compliance
Attitude
Health Psychology
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
38. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Phobia Treatments
Harlow's Experiment
Cialdini's Compliance
39. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
concrete operational
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Internalized Standard
40. Study of the mental illness of the brain
Cognitive Therapy
Biopsychosocial Model
Psychopathology
Social Roles
41. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Internal Attribution
TAT
Freud's Background Info
Ego
42. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Coping Strategies for Stress
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
latency stage
43. Emotions about the object
insecure-anxious attachment
DSM-IV-TR
HPA axis
TriPartite Model: Affect
44. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Stress as a Transaction
Factors that predict relationship success
Pygmalion effect
Emotional Distress
45. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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46. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
TriPartite Model: Affect
Evolutionary Psych
boy phallic stage
Asch study
47. 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
Stanford Prison Study
The Big Five
Flynn Effect
Factors that predict relationship success
48. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
insecure-avoidant attachment
Internalized Standard
Working Memory
Phobia Treatments
49. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Milgrams Explanations
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
50. 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
Normative Influence
External Attribution
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Stages of Appraisal