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Elementary Psychology
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1. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
DSM-IV-TR
Verbal Comprehension
Dysfunction
phallic stage
2. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
phallic stage
Health Psychology
preoperational
projective tests
3. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution
Coping Strategies for Stress
Milgrams Explanations
Discrimination
Interdependence Theory
4. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Public Conformity
disorganized attachment
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
TriPartite Model: Behavior
5. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Verbal Comprehension
Stereotype
Identity vs Role Confusion
6. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Realistic Conflict
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
To Reduce Dissonance...
egocentrism
7. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Clinical Psychology
Cognitive Dissonance
Schizophrenia
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
8. Physical vs. social interaction
Behavior Therapy
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Cialdini's Compliance
Public Conformity
9. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
Stanley Milgram Study
Ecclectic Therapists
Cooperation
object permanence
10. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Processing Speed
concrete operational
Interdependence Theory
Things that can influence IQ scores
11. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
TAT
Satisfaction
oedipus complex
Distress
12. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Discrimination
Working Memory
Public Conformity
Informational Influence
13. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
Stanford Prison Study
Id
Causes of Schizophrenia
lexical hypothesis
14. 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
Stages of Appraisal
Stereotype
Social Identity
Flynn Effect
15. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Psychopathology
Behavior Therapy
Schizophrenia
genital stage
16. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
secure attachment
anal stage
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Basic Cognitive Therapy
17. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Sheridan & King Study
Kelley's Covariation Model
girl phallic stage
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
18. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
Intimacy vs Isolation
Working Memory
boy phallic stage
lexical hypothesis
19. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Emotional Distress
Stress
Internalized Standard
Sheridan & King Study
20. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
object permanence
difference between piaget and vygotsky
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
21. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Private Conformity
Eustress
Dysfunction
22. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
The Big Five
Eustress
Asch study
Conformity
23. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
GAD Treatments
Stress
To Reduce Dissonance...
Evolutionary Psych
24. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Door in the Face
Stressors
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Perceptual Organization
25. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
Criteria for Abnormal
Dysfunction
conservation
zone of proximal development
26. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
Cattell's Source Traits
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Token Economy
genital stage
27. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
conservation
Obedience
Foot in the Door
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
28. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
conservation
Psychosis
Basic Cognitive Therapy
29. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Freud's Background Info
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Factors that predict relationship success
Psychosis
30. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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31. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Emotional Distress
lexical hypothesis
Factors that predict relationship success
Attributions
32. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Marucha Study
Ego
Statistical Deviance
disorganized attachment
33. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
TriPartite Model: Affect
Cognitive Therapy
Perceptual Organization
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
34. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
phallic stage
Ecclectic Therapists
Superego
girl phallic stage
35. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
Generativity vs Stagnation
phallic stage
TAT
projective tests
36. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Evolutionary Psych
Personality
castration complex
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
37. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Discrimination
Satisfaction
Superego
38. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
internalization
Things that can influence IQ scores
Social Identity
Foot in the Door
39. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Freud's Background Info
Psychopathology
Stress as a Response
electra complex
40. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
HPA axis
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Social Psychology
Stages of Appraisal
41. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Behavior: Extinction Method
External Attribution
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Stress as a Transaction
42. Digit span: repeat a set of numbers backwards - arithmetic: If Jessica has 3 packs of gum with 4 packs each - how many sticks will she have for herself if she gives 2 sticks each to 3 friends
Stages of Appraisal
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Stress as a Transaction
Working Memory
43. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Attributions
Factors that predict relationship success
Schizophrenia
External Attribution
44. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
Emotional Distress
Token Economy
sensorimotor
Door in the Face
45. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Attitude
Health Psychology
Integrity vs Despair
46. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
sensorimotor
WAIS
Behavior: Extinction Method
aptitude test
47. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
attachment
Schizophrenia
Id
WAIS
48. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Rational Emotive Therapy
secure attachment
latency stage
Industry vs Inferiority
49. Against culture norms - behavior often paired with societal disapproval - disapproval is not enough (sexism - racism)
Generativity vs Stagnation
Cultural Deviance
zone of proximal development
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
50. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Interdependence Theory
Autonomy vs Doubt
Trait Theory
Marucha Study