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Elementary Psychology
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1. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Working Memory
Clinical Psychology
2. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
girl phallic stage
Cattell's Source Traits
secure attachment
Stanford Prison Study
3. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
Milgrams Explanations
GAD Treatments
Things that can influence IQ scores
phallic stage
4. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
conservation
Conformity
lexical hypothesis
Personality
5. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Cooperation
Stanley Milgram Study
Stressors as Stimuli
anal stage
6. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
Milgrams Explanations
To Reduce Dissonance...
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Attitude
7. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
Kelley's Covariation Model
Basic Cognitive Therapy
HPA axis
Stanley Milgram Study
8. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
Cooperation
Stereotype
oral stage
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
9. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
TAT
Cattell's Source Traits
Clinical Psychology
Flynn Effect
10. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Processing Speed
Stanley Milgram Study
Sheridan & King Study
Token Economy
11. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Generativity vs Stagnation
Rosenhan Experiment
Stereotype
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
12. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
Kelley's Covariation Model
Trust vs Mistrust
HPA axis
Asch study
13. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Informational Influence
Behavior: Extinction Method
Rosenhan Experiment
Trust vs Mistrust
14. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Id
Clinical Psychology
projective tests
Prejudice
15. I. Clinical Disorders (alcohol dependence) II. Personality Disorders & Mental Retardation (antisocial personality disorder) III. Medical Conditions (cirrhosis of liver) IV. Social Functioning & stressors (death of child - marital stress) V. Global as
Behavior Therapy
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Flynn Effect
DSM Axes
16. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes
secure attachment
Private Conformity
Integrity vs Despair
DSM-IV-TR
17. Physical vs. social interaction
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Shaping
DSM-IV-TR
Intimacy vs Isolation
18. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
GAD Treatments
projective tests
Shaping
Conformity
19. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
anal stage
Dependence
Anxiety Disorder
Perceptual Organization
20. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
MMPI
Phobia Treatments
Id
Emotional Distress
21. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
castration complex
Token Economy
Interdependence Theory
Clinical Psychology
22. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Dysfunction
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
23. 1) development is more continues than stage-like 2) changing procedures a little bit changes results a lot 3) methods culturally biased
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24. Foot in the door vs door in the face
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25. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
achievement test
Harlow's Experiment
Marucha Study
Processing Speed
26. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Health Psychology
The Big Five
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Superego
27. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Freud's Background Info
genital stage
phallic stage
Anxiety Disorder
28. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
anal stage
Conformity
Perceptual Organization
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
29. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
electra complex
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Private Conformity
Basic Cognitive Therapy
30. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
Stress as a Response
WAIS
Obedience
Behavior: Extinction Method
31. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
internalization
concrete operational
Internalized Standard
Normative Influence
32. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
difference between piaget and vygotsky
anxiety
girl phallic stage
Biopsychosocial Model
33. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
MMPI
anxiety
Cooperation
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
34. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
oral stage
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Phobia Treatments
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
35. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
anal stage
zone of proximal development
Perceptual Organization
preoperational
36. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Behavior: Extinction Method
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Obedience
difference between piaget and vygotsky
37. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
TAT
zone of proximal development
Informational Influence
Prejudice
38. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Schizophrenia
Initiative vs Guilt
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Prejudice
39. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Dependence
conservation
Flynn Effect
40. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
concrete operational
WAIS
Internalized Standard
41. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Private Conformity
Working Memory
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Health Psychology
42. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
preoperational
Factors that predict relationship success
Stanley Milgram Study
External Attribution
43. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
insecure-anxious attachment
Flynn Effect
DSM Axes
Cooperation
44. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
disorganized attachment
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
External Attribution
Dependence
45. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
anxiety
Stereotype
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Normative Influence
46. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Cognitive Therapy
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Theory of Parental Investment
47. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
Industry vs Inferiority
Theory of Parental Investment
Stressors
lexical hypothesis
48. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
genital stage
MMPI
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Marucha Study
49. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
phallic stage
insecure-anxious attachment
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
50. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Criteria for Abnormal
Cooperation
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Basic Cognitive Therapy