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Elementary Psychology
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1. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
preoperational
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Sheridan & King Study
2. 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
disorganized attachment
Cultural Deviance
General Adaptation Syndrome
Coping Strategies for Stress
3. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Freud's Background Info
Rational Emotive Therapy
Distress
Shaping
4. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Eustress
Sheridan & King Study
Internalized Standard
Kelley's Covariation Model
5. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dependence
Initiative vs Guilt
secure attachment
6. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Stanley Milgram Study
Cialdini's Compliance
object permanence
General Adaptation Syndrome
7. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
GAD Treatments
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
preoperational
Superego
8. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Attitude
Criteria for Abnormal
Causes for Phobias
girl phallic stage
9. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
formal operational
Cognitive Therapy
Factors that predict relationship success
Processing Speed
10. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
Psychopathology
lexical hypothesis
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Behavior Therapy
11. No response to leaving or returning
Stages of Appraisal
Cattell's Source Traits
insecure-avoidant attachment
zone of proximal development
12. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Coping Strategies for Stress
Cooperation
Evolutionary Psych
Theory of Parental Investment
13. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
sensorimotor
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
attachment
Behavior Therapy
14. 1. Intrustions: thinking about it when you don't want to 2. Avoidance: avoid anything that reminds you of the incident 3. Arousal: physically aroused from stimuli of event
Harlow's Experiment
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
TAT
anxiety
15. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Ego
Autonomy vs Doubt
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Internalized Standard
16. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
HPA axis
zone of proximal development
Anxiety Disorder
Stress
17. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
concrete operational
TAT
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
18. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
projective tests
Distress
Intimacy vs Isolation
WAIS
19. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
Attitude
Superego
insecure-anxious attachment
preoperational
20. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
Cattell's Source Traits
projective tests
DSM Axes
Clinical Psychology
21. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
Public Conformity
Causes for Phobias
Satisfaction
boy phallic stage
22. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
conservation
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Identity vs Role Confusion
Emotional Distress
23. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Phobia
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Integrity vs Despair
24. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
GAD Treatments
External Attribution
Informational Influence
Basic Cognitive Therapy
25. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Transformation of Motivation
Internalized Standard
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Attributions
26. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior
phallic stage
Stress as a Transaction
Trait Theory
girl phallic stage
27. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
Statistical Deviance
MMPI
Sheridan & King Study
anal stage
28. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Generativity vs Stagnation
Trust vs Mistrust
Behavior Therapy
29. 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
Things that can influence IQ scores
Clinical Psychology
DSM Axes
Cialdini's Compliance
30. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
concrete operational
Factors that predict relationship success
Harlow's Experiment
Ego
31. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
aptitude test
Social Roles
internalization
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
32. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
zone of proximal development
MMPI
Cognitive Therapy
preoperational
33. 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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34. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Stressors
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
secure attachment
Phobia Treatments
35. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Behavior: Extinction Method
oral stage
lexical hypothesis
Criteria for Abnormal
36. No response to leaving or returning
Stress as a Response
Rosenhan Experiment
anxiety
insecure-avoidant attachment
37. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
HPA axis
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Milgrams Explanations
38. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
sensorimotor
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
aptitude test
Flynn Effect
39. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
latency stage
DSM Axes
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Fundamental Attribution Error
40. 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
phallic stage
Perceptual Organization
aptitude test
41. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Identity vs Role Confusion
phallic stage
internalization
electra complex
42. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
Private Conformity
formal operational
latency stage
Prejudice
43. Change behavior - change attitude
To Reduce Dissonance...
TriPartite Model: Affect
Internal Attribution
difference between piaget and vygotsky
44. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
Stages of Appraisal
Coping Strategies for Stress
Transformation of Motivation
Social Roles
45. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Phobia
TriPartite Model: Behavior
girl phallic stage
DSM Axes
46. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
Theory of Parental Investment
Integrity vs Despair
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
47. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Distress
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
To Reduce Dissonance...
Clinical Psychology
48. Change behavior - change attitude
To Reduce Dissonance...
Obedience
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
49. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Social Roles
Realistic Conflict
Discrimination
Stressors
50. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Dependence
object permanence
Phobia
Satisfaction
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