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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
insecure-anxious attachment
Fundamental Attribution Error
WAIS
Theory of Parental Investment
2. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group
Phobia Treatments
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Superego
Phobia
3. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Things that can influence IQ scores
Attitude
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Phobia
4. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Sheridan & King Study
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
WAIS
5. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
formal operational
MMPI
conservation
Rosenhan Experiment
6. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Autonomy vs Doubt
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Stressors
7. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Freud's Background Info
Token Economy
Ecclectic Therapists
Normative Influence
8. 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
Factors that predict relationship success
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Psychopathology
Foot in the Door
9. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Distress
Causes for Phobias
anxiety
10. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
Cognitive Therapy
Industry vs Inferiority
zone of proximal development
Realistic Conflict
11. 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
General Adaptation Syndrome
Stages of Appraisal
Interdependence Theory
Initiative vs Guilt
12. 1. covariate: look for cause of behavior 2. consistency: does this pairing always occur? 3. distinctiveness: is this behavior rare in terms of frequency 4. consensus: do other people react the same way?
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13. 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
Cognitive Dissonance
Cialdini's Compliance
DSM Axes
General Adaptation Syndrome
14. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Generativity vs Stagnation
Attitude
Kelley's Covariation Model
Perceptual Organization
15. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
Public Conformity
latency stage
Identity vs Role Confusion
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
16. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
Dependence
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Sheridan & King Study
anal stage
17. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
DSM-IV-TR
lexical hypothesis
Ego
TriPartite Model: Affect
18. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
Stereotype
preoperational
latency stage
object permanence
19. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Asch study
Trust vs Mistrust
Health Psychology
girl phallic stage
20. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
Social Roles
object permanence
External Attribution
Evolutionary Psych
21. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Transformation of Motivation
Attributions
Social Identity
22. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Stress
WAIS
External Attribution
Pygmalion effect
23. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Marucha Study
Phobia Treatments
Verbal Comprehension
Satisfaction
24. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
lexical hypothesis
Trust vs Mistrust
conservation
The Big Five
25. 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
Schizophrenia
Evolutionary Psych
Industry vs Inferiority
26. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
TriPartite Model: Affect
Harlow's Experiment
Dysfunction
Superego
27. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
conservation
Biopsychosocial Model
boy phallic stage
28. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Rational Emotive Therapy
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Flynn Effect
Transformation of Motivation
29. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Foot in the Door
Factors that predict relationship success
Dysfunction
Fundamental Attribution Error
30. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Working Memory
Clinical Psychology
Cattell's Source Traits
WAIS
31. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Schizophrenia
Informational Influence
Causes for Phobias
Working Memory
32. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
Public Conformity
formal operational
latency stage
Interdependence Theory
33. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Things that can influence IQ scores
Factors that predict relationship success
Generativity vs Stagnation
Eustress
34. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
Dysfunction
Health Psychology
preoperational
Conformity
35. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
Initiative vs Guilt
External Attribution
Cognitive Therapy
difference between piaget and vygotsky
36. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
aptitude test
Token Economy
Cultural Deviance
Pygmalion effect
37. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Stressors
Discrimination
Dysfunction
General Adaptation Syndrome
38. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
HPA axis
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Realistic Conflict
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
39. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Stressors
Personality
anxiety
40. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Phobia Treatments
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Discrimination
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
41. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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42. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Verbal Comprehension
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Phobia Treatments
Satisfaction
43. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
anal stage
TAT
girl phallic stage
sensorimotor
44. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
MMPI
Interdependence Theory
preoperational
achievement test
45. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Fundamental Attribution Error
sensorimotor
Industry vs Inferiority
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
46. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
oral stage
Realistic Conflict
Industry vs Inferiority
Interdependence Theory
47. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
conservation
DSM Axes
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Stereotype
48. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
TAT
Stanford Prison Study
Superego
Processing Speed
49. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
Causes for Phobias
GAD Treatments
Evolutionary Psych
Obedience
50. 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?
Marucha Study
MMPI
Verbal Comprehension
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder