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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Fundamental Attribution Error
Intimacy vs Isolation
aptitude test
Conformity
2. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Health Psychology
Things that can influence IQ scores
Social Roles
Cognitive Therapy
3. Beliefs about the object
TriPartite Model: Cognition
projective tests
Cultural Deviance
TriPartite Model: Behavior
4. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Dysfunction
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Stereotype
Behavior: Extinction Method
5. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Pygmalion effect
Public Conformity
Factors that predict relationship success
Initiative vs Guilt
6. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Things that can influence IQ scores
Interdependence Theory
Criteria for Abnormal
7. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
aptitude test
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Stressors as Stimuli
Stages of Appraisal
8. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
phallic stage
Cognitive Dissonance
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Evolutionary Psych
9. Measure personality in basic units - named factors A - B - C - etc. - identified 16 factors - [ex=intelligence - boldness - insecurity - self-discipline - tension]
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10. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Normative Influence
disorganized attachment
Ego
11. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Processing Speed
Behavior: Extinction Method
Transformation of Motivation
Flynn Effect
12. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Private Conformity
Trust vs Mistrust
Informational Influence
13. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
projective tests
Social Roles
anxiety
oral stage
14. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Rational Emotive Therapy
Trust vs Mistrust
Cultural Deviance
electra complex
15. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
conservation
Internal Attribution
Clinical Psychology
Transformation of Motivation
16. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
girl phallic stage
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Verbal Comprehension
17. No response to leaving or returning
Criteria for Abnormal
insecure-avoidant attachment
Kelley's Covariation Model
girl phallic stage
18. 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
Cognitive Dissonance
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
TriPartite Model: Affect
Ecclectic Therapists
19. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Normative Influence
Transformation of Motivation
Stanley Milgram Study
phallic stage
20. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
Transformation of Motivation
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
WAIS
Ego
21. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes
DSM-IV-TR
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Industry vs Inferiority
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
22. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Identity vs Role Confusion
Causes of Schizophrenia
Stereotype
Id
23. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
aptitude test
Harlow's Experiment
Integrity vs Despair
Working Memory
24. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Stress
TriPartite Model: Affect
TAT
DSM Axes
25. Change behavior - change attitude
General Adaptation Syndrome
insecure-avoidant attachment
phallic stage
To Reduce Dissonance...
26. 1. covariate: look for cause of behavior 2. consistency: does this pairing always occur? 3. distinctiveness: is this behavior rare in terms of frequency 4. consensus: do other people react the same way?
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27. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
Criteria for Abnormal
egocentrism
Integrity vs Despair
insecure-anxious attachment
28. Built a mock prison at Stanford and paid students to play the roles of prisons and guards - Results: power of social roles took over - promotes brutality
Stanford Prison Study
sensorimotor
Ecclectic Therapists
girl phallic stage
29. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Stanford Prison Study
Attributions
Eustress
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
30. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
genital stage
projective tests
Working Memory
Factors that predict relationship success
31. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Social Psychology
Behavior Therapy
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
32. 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
Phobia
Stress as a Response
egocentrism
Working Memory
33. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
sensorimotor
Social Psychology
oedipus complex
Industry vs Inferiority
34. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
concrete operational
MMPI
DSM-IV-TR
Public Conformity
35. 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
oedipus complex
General Adaptation Syndrome
phallic stage
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
36. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
anxiety
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Stressors
MMPI
37. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
Stress
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Stress as a Response
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
38. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group
Perceptual Organization
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
TAT
Obedience
39. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
HPA axis
MMPI
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
HPA axis
40. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
boy phallic stage
TriPartite Model: Affect
Things that can influence IQ scores
Internal Attribution
41. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Behavior Therapy
Cognitive Dissonance
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Autonomy vs Doubt
42. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
Attitude
genital stage
lexical hypothesis
phallic stage
43. 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
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
aptitude test
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
egocentrism
44. Change behavior - change attitude
To Reduce Dissonance...
internalization
Token Economy
conservation
45. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Anxiety Disorder
General Adaptation Syndrome
Stress
Social Roles
46. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Harlow's Experiment
WAIS
Shaping
Clinical Psychology
47. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
TAT
Conformity
Stages of Appraisal
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
48. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Behavior: Extinction Method
Trust vs Mistrust
Cooperation
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
49. Study of the mental illness of the brain
sensorimotor
Stress as a Response
object permanence
Psychopathology
50. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
Personality
phallic stage
Asch study
Autonomy vs Doubt