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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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1. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'






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






3. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior






4. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ






5. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]






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






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






8. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots






9. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events






10. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt






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






12. Foot in the door vs door in the face

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13. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting






14. Measuring the ability to concentrate - similarities: how are a thermometer and a ruler alike? - vocabulary: what does covert mean? - information: who was George Washington Carver?






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






16. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation






17. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses






18. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others






19. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]






20. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior






21. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts






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






23. Study of the mental illness of the brain






24. 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






25. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming






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






27. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort

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






29. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something






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






31. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges






32. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]






33. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem






34. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic






35. 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






36. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms






37. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request






38. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment






39. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something






40. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through






41. 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






42. 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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43. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger






44. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation






45. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding






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






47. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]






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






49. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request






50. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures






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