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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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1. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase






2. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute






3. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would






4. 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






5. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above






6. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind






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






8. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm






9. Cannot see things from another persons perspective






10. Genetic component & environmental conditioning






11. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return






12. Emotions about the object






13. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount






14. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]






15. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause






16. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process






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






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






19. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity






20. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution






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






22. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]






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






24. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability






25. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology






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






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






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






29. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'






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






31. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior






32. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)






33. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'






34. Emotions about the object






35. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted






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






37. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors






38. Predisposition to act - actions in the past






39. 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






40. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior






41. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner






42. Describes prolonged stress response in three stages 1. Alarm: fight or flight 2. Resistance: body uses resources to resist stress 3. Exhaustion: physiological response is depleted - become susceptible to illness/disease






43. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm






44. Built a mock prison at Stanford and paid students to play the roles of prisons and guards - Results: power of social roles took over - promotes brutality






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






46. Inconsistent behavior/confused






47. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives






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






49. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges






50. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation