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Elementary Psychology
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1. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Rational Emotive Therapy
Emotional Distress
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Prejudice
2. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Attributions
Asch study
Biopsychosocial Model
difference between piaget and vygotsky
3. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
attachment
Social Identity
girl phallic stage
conservation
4. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
Psychosis
anal stage
lexical hypothesis
Superego
5. 1. Intrustions: thinking about it when you don't want to 2. Avoidance: avoid anything that reminds you of the incident 3. Arousal: physically aroused from stimuli of event
castration complex
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
lexical hypothesis
TriPartite Model: Affect
6. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
egocentrism
Integrity vs Despair
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Internalized Standard
7. 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
Cognitive Dissonance
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Stanford Prison Study
lexical hypothesis
8. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Stereotype
Normative Influence
Causes for Phobias
secure attachment
9. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Health Psychology
WAIS
10. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Causes for Phobias
Theory of Parental Investment
GAD Treatments
difference between piaget and vygotsky
11. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
TAT
Perceptual Organization
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
12. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Distress
Cattell's Source Traits
Stressors as Stimuli
Door in the Face
13. Physical vs. social interaction
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
To Reduce Dissonance...
Verbal Comprehension
14. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
anxiety
oral stage
Autonomy vs Doubt
Conformity
15. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Sheridan & King Study
Pygmalion effect
Coping Strategies for Stress
Realistic Conflict
16. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
egocentrism
Stress
Identity vs Role Confusion
zone of proximal development
17. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Milgrams Explanations
Schizophrenia
aptitude test
preoperational
18. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
aptitude test
Pygmalion effect
Milgrams Explanations
egocentrism
19. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Fundamental Attribution Error
Conformity
Internalized Standard
Harlow's Experiment
20. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Discrimination
Internalized Standard
Sheridan & King Study
MMPI
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?
Verbal Comprehension
Private Conformity
Things that can influence IQ scores
Marucha Study
22. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Informational Influence
Attitude
Cultural Deviance
attachment
23. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
formal operational
Harlow's Experiment
preoperational
Integrity vs Despair
24. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Behavior Therapy
Internalized Standard
TriPartite Model: Affect
TriPartite Model: Affect
25. Most common/successful intelligence test
Evolutionary Psych
WAIS
Stressors
Marucha Study
26. 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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27. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Cattell's Source Traits
Public Conformity
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Processing Speed
28. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Ego
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Stanley Milgram Study
Basic Cognitive Therapy
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
Processing Speed
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Internal Attribution
Informational Influence
30. 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
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Stages of Appraisal
Flynn Effect
31. No response to leaving or returning
insecure-avoidant attachment
zone of proximal development
Cattell's Source Traits
General Adaptation Syndrome
32. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
Phobia Treatments
attachment
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
secure attachment
33. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Milgrams Explanations
Schizophrenia
Stressors as Stimuli
Distress
34. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Dysfunction
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Stress as a Transaction
35. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Criteria for Abnormal
internalization
Realistic Conflict
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
36. 1. Problem Focused: tackle the stressor head on - usually occurs when optimistic and believe we can achieve our goals 2. Emotion Focused: try to place a more positive outlook on emotions - engage in behaviors to reduce painful emotions
Coping Strategies for Stress
General Adaptation Syndrome
Stressors as Stimuli
External Attribution
37. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
TAT
Evolutionary Psych
secure attachment
Social Psychology
38. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Factors that predict relationship success
Conformity
Stanley Milgram Study
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
39. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
conservation
Initiative vs Guilt
projective tests
Processing Speed
40. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
anxiety
MMPI
Stanley Milgram Study
preoperational
41. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
Shaping
Behavior: Extinction Method
sensorimotor
Criteria for Abnormal
42. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Processing Speed
Rational Emotive Therapy
To Reduce Dissonance...
Dysfunction
43. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
Stages of Appraisal
Behavior: Extinction Method
latency stage
Cognitive Dissonance
44. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Cattell's Source Traits
Working Memory
Phobia
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
45. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
General Adaptation Syndrome
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
conservation
disorganized attachment
46. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
disorganized attachment
Evolutionary Psych
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Anxiety Disorder
47. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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48. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Psychopathology
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Asch study
Asch study
49. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
difference between piaget and vygotsky
General Adaptation Syndrome
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
concrete operational
50. 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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