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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
Flynn Effect
concrete operational
sensorimotor
Foot in the Door
2. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Marucha Study
castration complex
Eustress
Dependence
3. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Obedience
Freud's Background Info
TriPartite Model: Behavior
4. Measure personality in basic units - named factors A - B - C - etc. - identified 16 factors - [ex=intelligence - boldness - insecurity - self-discipline - tension]
5. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Things that can influence IQ scores
Satisfaction
Trait Theory
Things that can influence IQ scores
6. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Behavior: Extinction Method
Coping Strategies for Stress
genital stage
Generativity vs Stagnation
7. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Coping Strategies for Stress
MMPI
Stereotype
Trust vs Mistrust
8. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Behavior: Extinction Method
DSM-IV-TR
concrete operational
9. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
projective tests
Phobia
Perceptual Organization
Cooperation
10. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
Clinical Psychology
Statistical Deviance
Obedience
Phobia
11. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
WAIS
Informational Influence
Fundamental Attribution Error
Marucha Study
12. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Discrimination
Integrity vs Despair
oedipus complex
Perceptual Organization
13. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
Conformity
To Reduce Dissonance...
Ecclectic Therapists
boy phallic stage
14. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Flynn Effect
Cognitive Dissonance
Fundamental Attribution Error
Stress as a Response
15. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Social Identity
egocentrism
Internal Attribution
Identity vs Role Confusion
16. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Behavior Therapy
Personality
Attributions
Emotional Distress
17. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
18. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
insecure-anxious attachment
DSM Axes
Integrity vs Despair
Distress
19. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Stages of Appraisal
Working Memory
Perceptual Organization
Industry vs Inferiority
20. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Foot in the Door
insecure-anxious attachment
Dysfunction
Behavior Therapy
21. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
Emotional Distress
Pygmalion effect
Stressors
Interdependence Theory
22. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Trait Theory
Stages of Appraisal
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Stress as a Transaction
23. Against culture norms - behavior often paired with societal disapproval - disapproval is not enough (sexism - racism)
Cultural Deviance
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Biopsychosocial Model
To Reduce Dissonance...
24. 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
Cultural Deviance
concrete operational
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
phallic stage
25. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
Stressors
Behavior: Extinction Method
Initiative vs Guilt
Stereotype
26. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Stressors as Stimuli
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
internalization
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
27. Most common/successful intelligence test
The Big Five
lexical hypothesis
WAIS
Personality
28. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Cognitive Therapy
phallic stage
Psychopathology
Causes of Schizophrenia
29. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Schizophrenia
Milgrams Explanations
30. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
Statistical Deviance
formal operational
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Realistic Conflict
31. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Initiative vs Guilt
Health Psychology
Trait Theory
Cognitive Therapy
32. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
Stages of Appraisal
Pygmalion effect
The Big Five
anxiety
33. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Ego
Cattell's Source Traits
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Basic Cognitive Therapy
34. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
Anxiety Disorder
Internal Attribution
lexical hypothesis
Attitude
35. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
object permanence
egocentrism
Theory of Parental Investment
Behavior: Extinction Method
36. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Perceptual Organization
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Treatment for Schizophrenia
oral stage
37. 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
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Rational Emotive Therapy
Door in the Face
Foot in the Door
38. 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
egocentrism
Prejudice
Door in the Face
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
39. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
Schizophrenia
internalization
Trust vs Mistrust
Marucha Study
40. 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?
Evolutionary Psych
Distress
projective tests
Verbal Comprehension
41. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Anxiety Disorder
Discrimination
Factors that predict relationship success
Eustress
42. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Internalized Standard
zone of proximal development
Criteria for Abnormal
43. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Stress
aptitude test
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
44. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Coping Strategies for Stress
Social Identity
Obedience
TriPartite Model: Cognition
45. 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
46. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Distress
disorganized attachment
Fundamental Attribution Error
girl phallic stage
47. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
achievement test
DSM Axes
Social Psychology
Fundamental Attribution Error
48. Emotions about the object
oral stage
Behavior Therapy
TriPartite Model: Affect
Informational Influence
49. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Initiative vs Guilt
Attributions
Phobia
Causes for Phobias
50. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
boy phallic stage
electra complex
projective tests
Criteria for Abnormal