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Elementary Psychology
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1. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Initiative vs Guilt
Distress
Sheridan & King Study
Attributions
2. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Rational Emotive Therapy
Phobia
3. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
Interdependence Theory
Discrimination
Processing Speed
Obedience
4. 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
oral stage
Working Memory
Rational Emotive Therapy
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
5. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Satisfaction
Cooperation
The Big Five
Cattell's Source Traits
6. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Transformation of Motivation
Cattell's Source Traits
TriPartite Model: Behavior
7. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Private Conformity
Internal Attribution
Superego
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
8. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Social Psychology
WAIS
Health Psychology
Intimacy vs Isolation
9. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Personality
Foot in the Door
Pygmalion effect
Freud's Background Info
10. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Causes of Schizophrenia
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Private Conformity
insecure-avoidant attachment
11. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
phallic stage
Theory of Parental Investment
Conformity
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
12. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Psychosis
Stereotype
Industry vs Inferiority
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
13. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
GAD Treatments
Social Roles
Realistic Conflict
formal operational
14. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
HPA axis
Harlow's Experiment
Treatment for Schizophrenia
15. Beliefs about the object
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Trust vs Mistrust
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Pygmalion effect
16. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Things that can influence IQ scores
Foot in the Door
Cultural Deviance
Industry vs Inferiority
17. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Freud's Background Info
Conformity
Stressors
General Adaptation Syndrome
18. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Marucha Study
Processing Speed
Id
Things that can influence IQ scores
19. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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20. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
Asch study
aptitude test
Trait Theory
oral stage
21. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Anxiety Disorder
Stress as a Response
Eustress
oedipus complex
22. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Psychopathology
Stanford Prison Study
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Dependence
23. Most common/successful intelligence test
WAIS
Behavior Therapy
Attitude
anxiety
24. 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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25. 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
To Reduce Dissonance...
Token Economy
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
conservation
26. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
latency stage
The Big Five
Cooperation
Private Conformity
27. 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
Stress as a Response
Foot in the Door
conservation
Stress as a Response
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
Stanley Milgram Study
HPA axis
Stages of Appraisal
Cialdini's Compliance
29. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
latency stage
Basic Cognitive Therapy
attachment
egocentrism
30. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
WAIS
secure attachment
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Clinical Psychology
31. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Phobia
Personality
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Cooperation
32. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Conformity
To Reduce Dissonance...
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
33. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
TriPartite Model: Affect
Health Psychology
internalization
Kelley's Covariation Model
34. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Causes of Schizophrenia
Social Psychology
Causes for Phobias
To Reduce Dissonance...
35. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
External Attribution
Personality
HPA axis
Interdependence Theory
36. Physical vs. social interaction
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Social Identity
insecure-anxious attachment
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
37. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
Prejudice
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
HPA axis
Stereotype
38. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
WAIS
GAD Treatments
Treatment for Schizophrenia
MMPI
39. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Attributions
preoperational
Realistic Conflict
Intimacy vs Isolation
40. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
The Big Five
Fundamental Attribution Error
Factors that predict relationship success
Private Conformity
41. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Social Roles
castration complex
TAT
Statistical Deviance
42. 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)
WAIS
Marucha Study
To Reduce Dissonance...
Public Conformity
43. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
DSM Axes
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Psychopathology
Cooperation
44. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Stanford Prison Study
Cattell's Source Traits
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Realistic Conflict
45. No response to leaving or returning
Statistical Deviance
insecure-avoidant attachment
Normative Influence
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
46. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Rational Emotive Therapy
Normative Influence
Processing Speed
insecure-anxious attachment
47. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
latency stage
Intimacy vs Isolation
lexical hypothesis
External Attribution
48. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Rational Emotive Therapy
Causes of Schizophrenia
boy phallic stage
Schizophrenia
49. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Schizophrenia
Verbal Comprehension
Stress
GAD Treatments
50. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
Freud's Background Info
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Discrimination
projective tests
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