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Elementary Psychology
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1. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
Asch study
Generativity vs Stagnation
General Adaptation Syndrome
HPA axis
2. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Sheridan & King Study
Rosenhan Experiment
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
boy phallic stage
3. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
genital stage
oedipus complex
projective tests
Behavior: Extinction Method
4. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
sensorimotor
anal stage
conservation
Health Psychology
5. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Attributions
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
The Big Five
Pygmalion effect
6. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Prejudice
Behavior: Extinction Method
phallic stage
Conformity
7. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Foot in the Door
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Realistic Conflict
DSM Axes
8. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Working Memory
Attributions
Internalized Standard
Social Roles
9. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Trust vs Mistrust
Shaping
Private Conformity
Integrity vs Despair
10. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Kelley's Covariation Model
Transformation of Motivation
Cognitive Therapy
11. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
girl phallic stage
Generativity vs Stagnation
secure attachment
Cooperation
12. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
sensorimotor
Phobia
Social Roles
latency stage
13. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
phallic stage
Discrimination
Pygmalion effect
MMPI
14. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Sheridan & King Study
Cognitive Therapy
Foot in the Door
disorganized attachment
15. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
Personality
lexical hypothesis
To Reduce Dissonance...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
16. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Id
Industry vs Inferiority
Verbal Comprehension
Criteria for Abnormal
17. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Satisfaction
Social Roles
Personality
aptitude test
18. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
GAD Treatments
Coping Strategies for Stress
MMPI
aptitude test
19. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
secure attachment
electra complex
Stress as a Response
genital stage
20. Worry that father will cut their penis off
castration complex
Stanley Milgram Study
Conformity
Satisfaction
21. 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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22. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Causes of Schizophrenia
attachment
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Discrimination
23. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Stanford Prison Study
TriPartite Model: Affect
Intimacy vs Isolation
phallic stage
24. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Door in the Face
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Token Economy
Schizophrenia
25. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Social Identity
Psychosis
Stanford Prison Study
castration complex
26. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Stressors
Psychopathology
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Superego
27. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Cultural Deviance
Freud's Background Info
Prejudice
Internalized Standard
28. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Intimacy vs Isolation
Verbal Comprehension
Rational Emotive Therapy
Attributions
29. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
Door in the Face
The Big Five
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Stages of Appraisal
30. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Sheridan & King Study
Evolutionary Psych
Integrity vs Despair
Pygmalion effect
31. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
Id
Prejudice
anxiety
TriPartite Model: Cognition
32. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
sensorimotor
Causes for Phobias
internalization
Identity vs Role Confusion
33. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Intimacy vs Isolation
lexical hypothesis
Attitude
Internal Attribution
34. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Discrimination
Realistic Conflict
oedipus complex
Factors that predict relationship success
35. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
The Big Five
Perceptual Organization
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Token Economy
36. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
girl phallic stage
conservation
Theory of Parental Investment
Shaping
37. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Stress
Phobia
Internalized Standard
38. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
lexical hypothesis
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Schizophrenia
39. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
Phobia Treatments
Cooperation
insecure-anxious attachment
Cialdini's Compliance
40. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
MMPI
object permanence
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Interdependence Theory
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
Stress as a Response
Perceptual Organization
Things that can influence IQ scores
castration complex
42. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
aptitude test
Processing Speed
Asch study
castration complex
43. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
secure attachment
aptitude test
Phobia Treatments
attachment
44. 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
conservation
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Freud's Background Info
Foot in the Door
45. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Superego
Evolutionary Psych
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Statistical Deviance
46. Against culture norms - behavior often paired with societal disapproval - disapproval is not enough (sexism - racism)
Cultural Deviance
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Eustress
Id
47. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Satisfaction
Evolutionary Psych
Private Conformity
Cooperation
48. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
The Big Five
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Id
Evolutionary Psych
49. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Stereotype
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Token Economy
oedipus complex
50. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Social Identity
Informational Influence
DSM Axes