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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
oral stage
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Stages of Appraisal
Personality
2. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Pygmalion effect
Discrimination
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
castration complex
3. 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)
aptitude test
attachment
Stress
Marucha Study
4. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Causes for Phobias
Public Conformity
Social Psychology
5. Physical vs. social interaction
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
electra complex
Phobia Treatments
difference between piaget and vygotsky
6. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
sensorimotor
Working Memory
aptitude test
The Big Five
7. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Token Economy
Dysfunction
Social Psychology
projective tests
8. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
concrete operational
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
conservation
Eustress
9. 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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10. 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
Perceptual Organization
Working Memory
Interdependence Theory
Sheridan & King Study
11. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Eustress
genital stage
Stressors
Rational Emotive Therapy
12. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Psychosis
disorganized attachment
Anxiety Disorder
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
13. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
Dependence
Basic Cognitive Therapy
TriPartite Model: Affect
phallic stage
14. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
Cultural Deviance
Behavior Therapy
Basic Cognitive Therapy
anal stage
15. 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
girl phallic stage
External Attribution
Perceptual Organization
16. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
achievement test
Personality
Autonomy vs Doubt
Verbal Comprehension
17. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Obedience
Behavior: Extinction Method
girl phallic stage
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
18. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Rational Emotive Therapy
To Reduce Dissonance...
Obedience
Criteria for Abnormal
19. Measure personality in basic units - named factors A - B - C - etc. - identified 16 factors - [ex=intelligence - boldness - insecurity - self-discipline - tension]
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20. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Stereotype
Identity vs Role Confusion
boy phallic stage
21. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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22. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Things that can influence IQ scores
Intimacy vs Isolation
Autonomy vs Doubt
23. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
zone of proximal development
Industry vs Inferiority
formal operational
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
24. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
To Reduce Dissonance...
phallic stage
Milgrams Explanations
projective tests
25. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution
Milgrams Explanations
Conformity
aptitude test
lexical hypothesis
26. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Satisfaction
Psychopathology
Behavior Therapy
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
27. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Clinical Psychology
insecure-avoidant attachment
Rational Emotive Therapy
Emotional Distress
28. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
Harlow's Experiment
Initiative vs Guilt
secure attachment
Cattell's Source Traits
29. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Anxiety Disorder
Psychosis
sensorimotor
Perceptual Organization
30. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
Anxiety Disorder
insecure-anxious attachment
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Conformity
31. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
zone of proximal development
Factors that predict relationship success
Distress
32. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Phobia Treatments
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
achievement test
Intimacy vs Isolation
33. Beliefs about the object
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Attitude
Stereotype
Generativity vs Stagnation
34. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
Coping Strategies for Stress
phallic stage
achievement test
lexical hypothesis
35. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Distress
Health Psychology
TriPartite Model: Cognition
TAT
36. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
Attitude
Causes for Phobias
girl phallic stage
Social Psychology
37. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Identity vs Role Confusion
girl phallic stage
Behavior Therapy
Stanford Prison Study
38. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Stress
Rational Emotive Therapy
sensorimotor
External Attribution
39. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Satisfaction
Processing Speed
40. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
Statistical Deviance
formal operational
Asch study
TriPartite Model: Cognition
41. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Generativity vs Stagnation
Evolutionary Psych
Biopsychosocial Model
oral stage
42. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Psychosis
Things that can influence IQ scores
Harlow's Experiment
Attributions
43. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
sensorimotor
phallic stage
Internal Attribution
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
44. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Realistic Conflict
MMPI
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Stressors
45. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
anxiety
Phobia Treatments
Realistic Conflict
46. 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
Door in the Face
Transformation of Motivation
Foot in the Door
Health Psychology
47. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
TriPartite Model: Behavior
HPA axis
Integrity vs Despair
Working Memory
48. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Stages of Appraisal
Distress
Rational Emotive Therapy
HPA axis
49. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
concrete operational
anal stage
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Factors that predict relationship success
50. Measure personality in basic units - named factors A - B - C - etc. - identified 16 factors - [ex=intelligence - boldness - insecurity - self-discipline - tension]
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