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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Change behavior - change attitude
WAIS
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Ego
To Reduce Dissonance...
2. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Shaping
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Integrity vs Despair
3. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Public Conformity
Behavior Therapy
Evolutionary Psych
The Big Five
4. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Shaping
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Processing Speed
Satisfaction
5. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
disorganized attachment
Ecclectic Therapists
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
6. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
Obedience
Stress as a Transaction
Door in the Face
MMPI
7. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Conformity
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Evolutionary Psych
HPA axis
8. 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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9. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
Personality
Criteria for Abnormal
Normative Influence
anal stage
10. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Social Psychology
Coping Strategies for Stress
Intimacy vs Isolation
Evolutionary Psych
11. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Fundamental Attribution Error
Superego
To Reduce Dissonance...
12. 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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13. Lived in End of Romatic Era (emphasis on expression - art - passion - sexuality relatively liberal) -grew up in Victorian Age (sexuality is taboo - emphasis on public decency/morality - paternal) -mothers first born and favorite child -love/hate rela
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14. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Attributions
Pygmalion effect
General Adaptation Syndrome
disorganized attachment
15. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Dysfunction
Public Conformity
Shaping
Stanley Milgram Study
16. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
TAT
Ego
Statistical Deviance
Behavior Therapy
17. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes
DSM-IV-TR
Freud's Background Info
Eustress
preoperational
18. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
Dysfunction
projective tests
Social Psychology
genital stage
19. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Working Memory
Attributions
Perceptual Organization
Health Psychology
20. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Behavior Therapy
Stress
Intimacy vs Isolation
Working Memory
21. Sexually desire their mother
Generativity vs Stagnation
oedipus complex
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
22. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Realistic Conflict
attachment
girl phallic stage
23. Change behavior - change attitude
To Reduce Dissonance...
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
formal operational
Basic Cognitive Therapy
24. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
electra complex
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Eustress
formal operational
25. 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
Personality
Cooperation
Stanford Prison Study
Verbal Comprehension
26. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
Autonomy vs Doubt
Harlow's Experiment
Criteria for Abnormal
egocentrism
27. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
WAIS
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Interdependence Theory
Treatment for Schizophrenia
28. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Behavior: Extinction Method
Harlow's Experiment
Ego
Cognitive Dissonance
29. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Criteria for Abnormal
Emotional Distress
girl phallic stage
External Attribution
30. 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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31. 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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32. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
concrete operational
Cultural Deviance
Superego
Informational Influence
33. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
latency stage
Token Economy
Flynn Effect
WAIS
34. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Foot in the Door
insecure-avoidant attachment
Autonomy vs Doubt
Health Psychology
35. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Stressors
Causes for Phobias
Dependence
36. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Psychosis
Milgrams Explanations
oedipus complex
Industry vs Inferiority
37. Lived in End of Romatic Era (emphasis on expression - art - passion - sexuality relatively liberal) -grew up in Victorian Age (sexuality is taboo - emphasis on public decency/morality - paternal) -mothers first born and favorite child -love/hate rela
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38. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Sheridan & King Study
Stressors
internalization
39. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Ecclectic Therapists
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Stress as a Transaction
Cognitive Therapy
40. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
attachment
Schizophrenia
anxiety
lexical hypothesis
41. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Identity vs Role Confusion
Token Economy
Verbal Comprehension
Phobia Treatments
42. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
Cognitive Dissonance
Informational Influence
MMPI
Phobia
43. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
General Adaptation Syndrome
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Interdependence Theory
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
44. Most common/successful intelligence test
castration complex
Private Conformity
WAIS
Harlow's Experiment
45. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
aptitude test
Phobia Treatments
Flynn Effect
Treatment for Schizophrenia
46. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Stressors
electra complex
Asch study
Rosenhan Experiment
47. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Stanley Milgram Study
disorganized attachment
Anxiety Disorder
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
48. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Psychopathology
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Evolutionary Psych
49. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Basic Cognitive Therapy
oedipus complex
Treatment for Schizophrenia
DSM-IV-TR
50. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
object permanence
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Dependence
Token Economy