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Elementary Psychology
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1. 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
DSM Axes
Social Psychology
Dependence
TriPartite Model: Behavior
2. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
anal stage
Evolutionary Psych
Satisfaction
TriPartite Model: Behavior
3. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes
DSM-IV-TR
Psychopathology
Ego
Statistical Deviance
4. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
Transformation of Motivation
boy phallic stage
concrete operational
disorganized attachment
5. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
Fundamental Attribution Error
Distress
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Interdependence Theory
6. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
Stanford Prison Study
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
MMPI
Foot in the Door
7. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Conformity
Dysfunction
latency stage
8. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Harlow's Experiment
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Processing Speed
9. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Processing Speed
Public Conformity
Stages of Appraisal
Stanley Milgram Study
10. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Behavior Therapy
General Adaptation Syndrome
Stress
Working Memory
11. Foot in the door vs door in the face
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12. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Stress as a Transaction
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Anxiety Disorder
aptitude test
13. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Psychosis
Perceptual Organization
achievement test
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
14. 1. Problem Focused: tackle the stressor head on - usually occurs when optimistic and believe we can achieve our goals 2. Emotion Focused: try to place a more positive outlook on emotions - engage in behaviors to reduce painful emotions
anxiety
Coping Strategies for Stress
Realistic Conflict
sensorimotor
15. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
To Reduce Dissonance...
electra complex
projective tests
genital stage
16. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Realistic Conflict
Coping Strategies for Stress
Marucha Study
boy phallic stage
17. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Internal Attribution
GAD Treatments
Phobia Treatments
Cooperation
18. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
sensorimotor
Freud's Background Info
Schizophrenia
Stanford Prison Study
19. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Stereotype
Stanley Milgram Study
TriPartite Model: Affect
Stereotype
20. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
Cognitive Dissonance
HPA axis
Shaping
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
21. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Cognitive Therapy
lexical hypothesis
Flynn Effect
Stages of Appraisal
22. Change behavior - change attitude
Schizophrenia
To Reduce Dissonance...
Schizophrenia
Evolutionary Psych
23. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
TAT
Ecclectic Therapists
sensorimotor
Cattell's Source Traits
24. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Superego
Stressors
Discrimination
WAIS
25. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Cognitive Dissonance
Internal Attribution
Cooperation
Phobia Treatments
26. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Fundamental Attribution Error
preoperational
General Adaptation Syndrome
Internalized Standard
27. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes
General Adaptation Syndrome
DSM-IV-TR
Dependence
Attributions
28. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Things that can influence IQ scores
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Superego
Sheridan & King Study
29. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
Working Memory
Rational Emotive Therapy
achievement test
Identity vs Role Confusion
30. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Discrimination
Asch study
Sheridan & King Study
Social Identity
31. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
HPA axis
Causes of Schizophrenia
Sheridan & King Study
Obedience
32. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Evolutionary Psych
formal operational
Stressors as Stimuli
Cognitive Therapy
33. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Obedience
Schizophrenia
Criteria for Abnormal
Cognitive Dissonance
34. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
TAT
object permanence
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
anxiety
35. Emotions about the object
TriPartite Model: Affect
Autonomy vs Doubt
Distress
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
36. + 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
Social Psychology
insecure-avoidant attachment
attachment
37. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
Cialdini's Compliance
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Asch study
Behavior: Extinction Method
38. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
The Big Five
Coping Strategies for Stress
Stress as a Transaction
WAIS
39. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Interdependence Theory
Cattell's Source Traits
Fundamental Attribution Error
Social Identity
40. Inconsistent behavior/confused
disorganized attachment
Door in the Face
Door in the Face
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
41. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
GAD Treatments
Informational Influence
Schizophrenia
Stages of Appraisal
42. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
HPA axis
Integrity vs Despair
secure attachment
The Big Five
43. Focus on the outcome of being in a situation that causes stress - stress is a physiological response Ex: fight or flight vs General Adaptation Syndrome
Stress
Cognitive Dissonance
Stress as a Response
Treatment for Schizophrenia
44. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Stressors
Prejudice
Psychosis
Working Memory
45. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Social Psychology
projective tests
Social Identity
46. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Fundamental Attribution Error
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Psychosis
Behavior Therapy
47. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
Token Economy
Trait Theory
Social Roles
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
48. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
insecure-avoidant attachment
Superego
MMPI
49. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Cognitive Therapy
achievement test
Integrity vs Despair
50. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Phobia Treatments
attachment
latency stage
Trait Theory