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Elementary Psychology
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1. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
Basic Cognitive Therapy
genital stage
insecure-anxious attachment
Stressors
2. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Token Economy
TAT
Ego
Normative Influence
3. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Anxiety Disorder
Phobia Treatments
Stress as a Response
Superego
4. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Id
Phobia
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Stress as a Response
5. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Criteria for Abnormal
Causes of Schizophrenia
Social Psychology
Biopsychosocial Model
6. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Phobia
anxiety
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Stress as a Transaction
7. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
zone of proximal development
object permanence
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
boy phallic stage
8. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
zone of proximal development
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
9. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Criteria for Abnormal
Token Economy
Evolutionary Psych
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
10. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
zone of proximal development
concrete operational
Trust vs Mistrust
Transformation of Motivation
11. Inconsistent behavior/confused
disorganized attachment
Industry vs Inferiority
Distress
lexical hypothesis
12. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
internalization
Attitude
Theory of Parental Investment
13. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Stereotype
attachment
Informational Influence
Satisfaction
14. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Anxiety Disorder
castration complex
preoperational
electra complex
15. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
Interdependence Theory
Pygmalion effect
attachment
oedipus complex
16. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
TAT
Cultural Deviance
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
oral stage
17. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Cultural Deviance
Rational Emotive Therapy
Ego
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
18. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Internalized Standard
Biopsychosocial Model
TriPartite Model: Cognition
sensorimotor
19. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
Treatment for Schizophrenia
achievement test
projective tests
TriPartite Model: Cognition
20. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
sensorimotor
Integrity vs Despair
anxiety
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
21. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior
TriPartite Model: Affect
sensorimotor
Trait Theory
Cooperation
22. 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
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Initiative vs Guilt
DSM Axes
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
23. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Internal Attribution
Foot in the Door
anal stage
Satisfaction
24. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
achievement test
Clinical Psychology
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Behavior Therapy
25. 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)
Milgrams Explanations
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Phobia Treatments
Marucha Study
26. No response to leaving or returning
insecure-avoidant attachment
difference between piaget and vygotsky
lexical hypothesis
Social Identity
27. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Cooperation
Coping Strategies for Stress
object permanence
Intimacy vs Isolation
28. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
The Big Five
Social Psychology
GAD Treatments
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
29. 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
disorganized attachment
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Working Memory
Normative Influence
30. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Dependence
Fundamental Attribution Error
Clinical Psychology
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
31. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Realistic Conflict
HPA axis
TriPartite Model: Cognition
32. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
Stanley Milgram Study
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
The Big Five
External Attribution
33. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
zone of proximal development
Cognitive Dissonance
Criteria for Abnormal
34. 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
Industry vs Inferiority
Interdependence Theory
Stressors
Foot in the Door
35. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Integrity vs Despair
genital stage
External Attribution
Cooperation
36. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Sheridan & King Study
Token Economy
Stressors as Stimuli
Internalized Standard
37. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
Stages of Appraisal
Biopsychosocial Model
secure attachment
formal operational
38. Beliefs about the object
disorganized attachment
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Causes for Phobias
Causes of Schizophrenia
39. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Anxiety Disorder
Superego
Prejudice
General Adaptation Syndrome
40. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Private Conformity
Stressors
Stanford Prison Study
Internal Attribution
41. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
conservation
Behavior: Extinction Method
Ecclectic Therapists
egocentrism
42. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
Distress
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Stereotype
Integrity vs Despair
43. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Anxiety Disorder
Intimacy vs Isolation
Identity vs Role Confusion
Id
44. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
Cognitive Dissonance
Sheridan & King Study
Normative Influence
Personality
45. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Stress as a Transaction
Door in the Face
preoperational
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
46. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Id
Psychopathology
Causes of Schizophrenia
Dysfunction
47. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Processing Speed
Ecclectic Therapists
Schizophrenia
Fundamental Attribution Error
48. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Identity vs Role Confusion
Distress
Fundamental Attribution Error
Behavior: Extinction Method
49. Against culture norms - behavior often paired with societal disapproval - disapproval is not enough (sexism - racism)
Satisfaction
Cultural Deviance
Factors that predict relationship success
Processing Speed
50. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Pygmalion effect
Asch study
Initiative vs Guilt
castration complex
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