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Elementary Psychology
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1. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Harlow's Experiment
Flynn Effect
Public Conformity
formal operational
2. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Satisfaction
External Attribution
insecure-avoidant attachment
TriPartite Model: Behavior
3. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
Stages of Appraisal
Token Economy
Coping Strategies for Stress
Attitude
4. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Attitude
Processing Speed
Theory of Parental Investment
5. Worry that father will cut their penis off
castration complex
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Prejudice
Public Conformity
6. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Milgrams Explanations
Discrimination
Identity vs Role Confusion
Stress as a Response
7. Beliefs about the object
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Stress as a Transaction
Realistic Conflict
Behavior: Extinction Method
8. Foot in the door vs door in the face
9. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Factors that predict relationship success
Stanley Milgram Study
Harlow's Experiment
Informational Influence
10. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Rational Emotive Therapy
Cooperation
External Attribution
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
11. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Internalized Standard
insecure-anxious attachment
12. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Id
Trust vs Mistrust
Realistic Conflict
Cognitive Dissonance
13. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Flynn Effect
Biopsychosocial Model
Autonomy vs Doubt
Intimacy vs Isolation
14. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Behavior: Extinction Method
phallic stage
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Stanley Milgram Study
15. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Social Psychology
Personality
Evolutionary Psych
Factors that predict relationship success
16. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
Theory of Parental Investment
Psychopathology
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Trust vs Mistrust
17. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Cognitive Therapy
Prejudice
Perceptual Organization
Stressors as Stimuli
18. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Coping Strategies for Stress
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Cognitive Therapy
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
19. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
Health Psychology
Stressors as Stimuli
Discrimination
boy phallic stage
20. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Cognitive Therapy
General Adaptation Syndrome
21. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Things that can influence IQ scores
Trait Theory
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
electra complex
22. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Things that can influence IQ scores
Identity vs Role Confusion
Id
attachment
23. 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?
Realistic Conflict
anal stage
Verbal Comprehension
Id
24. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
electra complex
Autonomy vs Doubt
MMPI
Statistical Deviance
25. Beliefs about the object
Superego
TriPartite Model: Cognition
External Attribution
Satisfaction
26. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
preoperational
Cognitive Dissonance
lexical hypothesis
Working Memory
27. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
Autonomy vs Doubt
Ecclectic Therapists
WAIS
aptitude test
28. Emotions about the object
Causes of Schizophrenia
Attitude
TriPartite Model: Affect
Asch study
29. 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
Trait Theory
Processing Speed
Working Memory
Phobia Treatments
30. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
anal stage
Stress as a Transaction
Discrimination
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
31. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Eustress
Psychopathology
Stress as a Transaction
Coping Strategies for Stress
32. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Clinical Psychology
Theory of Parental Investment
Rational Emotive Therapy
Cognitive Dissonance
33. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Door in the Face
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Health Psychology
Asch study
34. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Biopsychosocial Model
Door in the Face
Schizophrenia
35. 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
Stressors as Stimuli
Personality
Door in the Face
achievement test
36. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
Trust vs Mistrust
secure attachment
Private Conformity
Realistic Conflict
37. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Stressors as Stimuli
Behavior: Extinction Method
Verbal Comprehension
achievement test
38. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Stress
General Adaptation Syndrome
Stressors
Public Conformity
39. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Obedience
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
projective tests
40. Measure personality in basic units - named factors A - B - C - etc. - identified 16 factors - [ex=intelligence - boldness - insecurity - self-discipline - tension]
41. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Factors that predict relationship success
WAIS
Stress as a Response
Working Memory
42. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
aptitude test
Obedience
Biopsychosocial Model
oedipus complex
43. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
genital stage
Intimacy vs Isolation
lexical hypothesis
Personality
44. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
aptitude test
attachment
Causes of Schizophrenia
conservation
45. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
insecure-avoidant attachment
Integrity vs Despair
Door in the Face
phallic stage
46. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
TAT
DSM-IV-TR
Distress
latency stage
47. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
Industry vs Inferiority
concrete operational
Stress as a Transaction
Milgrams Explanations
48. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Basic Cognitive Therapy
anxiety
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Internal Attribution
49. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
TriPartite Model: Behavior
egocentrism
External Attribution
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
50. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
achievement test
formal operational
difference between piaget and vygotsky