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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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1. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed






2. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family






3. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events






4. Inconsistent behavior/confused






5. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person






6. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology






7. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]






8. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world






9. 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






10. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal






11. Predisposition to act - actions in the past






12. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams






13. Cannot see things from another persons perspective






14. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion






15. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments






16. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability






17. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups






18. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures






19. Focus on the outcome of being in a situation that causes stress - stress is a physiological response Ex: fight or flight vs General Adaptation Syndrome






20. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting






21. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others






22. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have






23. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change






24. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty






25. Focus on the outcome of being in a situation that causes stress - stress is a physiological response Ex: fight or flight vs General Adaptation Syndrome






26. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]






27. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others






28. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat






29. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver






30. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal






31. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause






32. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]






33. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes






34. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]






35. Sexually desire their mother






36. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity






37. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]






38. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]






39. Study of the mental illness of the brain






40. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause






41. 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)






42. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies






43. 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






44. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them






45. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse






46. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process






47. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm






48. Jealousy/hatred of all other women






49. Objects are remembered even when out of sight






50. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk