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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Prejudice
disorganized attachment
Coping Strategies for Stress
Phobia Treatments
2. No response to leaving or returning
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Obedience
Pygmalion effect
insecure-avoidant attachment
3. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
achievement test
Working Memory
Satisfaction
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
4. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Fundamental Attribution Error
Token Economy
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
castration complex
5. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Basic Cognitive Therapy
formal operational
Causes for Phobias
TriPartite Model: Affect
6. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Shaping
Stress
Informational Influence
Stress
7. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Interdependence Theory
aptitude test
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
object permanence
8. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
Rosenhan Experiment
Behavior Therapy
Obedience
latency stage
9. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
egocentrism
oedipus complex
Cognitive Dissonance
Personality
10. Change behavior - change attitude
Attitude
Schizophrenia
To Reduce Dissonance...
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
11. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Cognitive Therapy
Conformity
anal stage
Pygmalion effect
12. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Generativity vs Stagnation
Flynn Effect
Intimacy vs Isolation
Initiative vs Guilt
13. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
formal operational
Social Psychology
sensorimotor
Trait Theory
14. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
MMPI
Criteria for Abnormal
Generativity vs Stagnation
disorganized attachment
15. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
conservation
Satisfaction
Stress as a Response
preoperational
16. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
castration complex
Stressors
Discrimination
Stress as a Transaction
17. 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
Criteria for Abnormal
aptitude test
Stages of Appraisal
Foot in the Door
18. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Public Conformity
Behavior: Extinction Method
Personality
Identity vs Role Confusion
19. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
achievement test
Social Psychology
TAT
anal stage
20. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Social Identity
Sheridan & King Study
preoperational
latency stage
21. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
Initiative vs Guilt
insecure-anxious attachment
HPA axis
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
22. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
phallic stage
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
MMPI
Obedience
23. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
Social Identity
conservation
preoperational
Initiative vs Guilt
24. Worry that father will cut their penis off
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
castration complex
attachment
Realistic Conflict
25. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior
Theory of Parental Investment
Trait Theory
Generativity vs Stagnation
Internal Attribution
26. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
Stress as a Transaction
Discrimination
Stress as a Response
secure attachment
27. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
Trait Theory
Personality
Working Memory
Sheridan & King Study
28. Describes prolonged stress response in three stages 1. Alarm: fight or flight 2. Resistance: body uses resources to resist stress 3. Exhaustion: physiological response is depleted - become susceptible to illness/disease
External Attribution
General Adaptation Syndrome
Cattell's Source Traits
Things that can influence IQ scores
29. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Public Conformity
Foot in the Door
lexical hypothesis
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
30. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Pygmalion effect
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
sensorimotor
insecure-anxious attachment
31. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
Phobia
object permanence
Cognitive Therapy
Integrity vs Despair
32. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Working Memory
Stereotype
TriPartite Model: Affect
Cattell's Source Traits
33. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
WAIS
preoperational
Informational Influence
34. Study of the mental illness of the brain
GAD Treatments
Obedience
Psychopathology
Causes of Schizophrenia
35. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
lexical hypothesis
HPA axis
HPA axis
36. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Ecclectic Therapists
Psychosis
Factors that predict relationship success
Attributions
37. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Interdependence Theory
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
38. Ask for a large favor first - followed up with something much smaller - if you say no - you may feel guilty and may say yes to a more reasonable request
Coping Strategies for Stress
Biopsychosocial Model
Marucha Study
Door in the Face
39. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
Initiative vs Guilt
Ego
genital stage
Private Conformity
40. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Phobia
Biopsychosocial Model
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Cultural Deviance
41. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Eustress
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
conservation
aptitude test
42. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Treatment for Schizophrenia
TriPartite Model: Affect
Coping Strategies for Stress
Stress
43. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Pygmalion effect
Fundamental Attribution Error
conservation
Internalized Standard
44. 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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45. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Psychosis
Stress
Milgrams Explanations
Causes of Schizophrenia
46. 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
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
attachment
Stressors as Stimuli
Stress as a Response
47. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Cultural Deviance
Trust vs Mistrust
Treatment for Schizophrenia
48. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Internal Attribution
Evolutionary Psych
Attitude
49. 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
Stages of Appraisal
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Rational Emotive Therapy
Psychopathology
50. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Satisfaction
Door in the Face
Cooperation
Door in the Face
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