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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
phallic stage
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
achievement test
Behavior Therapy
2. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Discrimination
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
3. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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4. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Personality
internalization
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Distress
5. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
Health Psychology
Sheridan & King Study
phallic stage
secure attachment
6. 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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7. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
General Adaptation Syndrome
Cultural Deviance
Fundamental Attribution Error
Stanley Milgram Study
8. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
Intimacy vs Isolation
latency stage
object permanence
Attributions
9. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Anxiety Disorder
secure attachment
Marucha Study
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
10. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
Ego
WAIS
Distress
Social Psychology
11. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Door in the Face
Distress
Cattell's Source Traits
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
12. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Dysfunction
sensorimotor
Social Identity
oedipus complex
13. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Working Memory
Behavior Therapy
Eustress
Private Conformity
14. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
lexical hypothesis
Attributions
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Door in the Face
15. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Internal Attribution
Discrimination
Realistic Conflict
TriPartite Model: Cognition
16. No response to leaving or returning
Clinical Psychology
insecure-avoidant attachment
General Adaptation Syndrome
Fundamental Attribution Error
17. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Generativity vs Stagnation
Clinical Psychology
Sheridan & King Study
Rosenhan Experiment
18. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
Industry vs Inferiority
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Attitude
19. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Health Psychology
Internal Attribution
secure attachment
Integrity vs Despair
20. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
Foot in the Door
oral stage
Verbal Comprehension
Transformation of Motivation
21. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Causes for Phobias
concrete operational
lexical hypothesis
Schizophrenia
22. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Evolutionary Psych
Clinical Psychology
HPA axis
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
23. 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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24. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Processing Speed
WAIS
Pygmalion effect
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
25. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
castration complex
Stress as a Response
HPA axis
Public Conformity
26. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Rosenhan Experiment
Rational Emotive Therapy
Anxiety Disorder
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
27. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Schizophrenia
Attitude
Stanley Milgram Study
28. Most common/successful intelligence test
Ecclectic Therapists
WAIS
Biopsychosocial Model
Internalized Standard
29. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Interdependence Theory
Personality
Biopsychosocial Model
30. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
Satisfaction
preoperational
Health Psychology
Trait Theory
31. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
concrete operational
attachment
Identity vs Role Confusion
Stanley Milgram Study
32. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Prejudice
Causes of Schizophrenia
Social Roles
33. 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
DSM Axes
Attitude
Superego
anxiety
34. Emotions about the object
TriPartite Model: Affect
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Theory of Parental Investment
Id
35. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Internal Attribution
Phobia Treatments
Identity vs Role Confusion
Processing Speed
36. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
internalization
Dysfunction
Phobia
TriPartite Model: Cognition
37. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
To Reduce Dissonance...
Stressors
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Id
38. Study of the mental illness of the brain
oedipus complex
TAT
Psychopathology
Biopsychosocial Model
39. Change behavior - change attitude
Treatment for Schizophrenia
conservation
Theory of Parental Investment
To Reduce Dissonance...
40. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Emotional Distress
Ego
internalization
Cognitive Dissonance
41. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Id
Perceptual Organization
Biopsychosocial Model
Phobia
42. 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
Informational Influence
TAT
Door in the Face
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
43. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Factors that predict relationship success
External Attribution
Marucha Study
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
44. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
insecure-anxious attachment
MMPI
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
45. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Stressors
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Eustress
46. 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
Trait Theory
The Big Five
DSM Axes
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
47. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Stress
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
concrete operational
disorganized attachment
48. Against culture norms - behavior often paired with societal disapproval - disapproval is not enough (sexism - racism)
Marucha Study
Initiative vs Guilt
Cultural Deviance
Stress as a Transaction
49. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Trait Theory
Obedience
Identity vs Role Confusion
Stereotype
50. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
insecure-anxious attachment
Stress
electra complex
MMPI