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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
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Flynn Effect
Cialdini's Compliance
Realistic Conflict
2. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior
Trait Theory
castration complex
egocentrism
boy phallic stage
3. Against culture norms - behavior often paired with societal disapproval - disapproval is not enough (sexism - racism)
Anxiety Disorder
Cultural Deviance
Public Conformity
Treatment for Schizophrenia
4. Foot in the door vs door in the face
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5. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Psychopathology
Interdependence Theory
Eustress
6. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
Pygmalion effect
Transformation of Motivation
Initiative vs Guilt
Token Economy
7. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Causes for Phobias
Stressors as Stimuli
Milgrams Explanations
DSM Axes
8. 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
General Adaptation Syndrome
Phobia
Dependence
Realistic Conflict
9. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
Trust vs Mistrust
Stressors
External Attribution
lexical hypothesis
10. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Id
TriPartite Model: Behavior
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
concrete operational
11. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Pygmalion effect
Ego
Transformation of Motivation
12. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
zone of proximal development
Behavior: Extinction Method
13. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
concrete operational
Clinical Psychology
Freud's Background Info
GAD Treatments
14. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
Autonomy vs Doubt
Social Psychology
secure attachment
Personality
15. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Phobia Treatments
Internalized Standard
Statistical Deviance
Initiative vs Guilt
16. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Token Economy
Coping Strategies for Stress
Marucha Study
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
17. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Personality
Dependence
Schizophrenia
DSM-IV-TR
18. 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
Intimacy vs Isolation
Emotional Distress
Discrimination
19. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
insecure-avoidant attachment
Stressors
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Clinical Psychology
20. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Rational Emotive Therapy
Trust vs Mistrust
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Biopsychosocial Model
21. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Causes of Schizophrenia
sensorimotor
DSM-IV-TR
Door in the Face
22. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
Treatment for Schizophrenia
achievement test
Dysfunction
Clinical Psychology
23. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Asch study
Industry vs Inferiority
Id
Rational Emotive Therapy
24. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
Internalized Standard
anal stage
Behavior Therapy
Initiative vs Guilt
25. 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
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Evolutionary Psych
Pygmalion effect
Working Memory
26. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Private Conformity
Stress as a Response
Identity vs Role Confusion
HPA axis
27. Physical vs. social interaction
difference between piaget and vygotsky
object permanence
Integrity vs Despair
Stress as a Response
28. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Causes of Schizophrenia
disorganized attachment
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Eustress
29. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Stanley Milgram Study
Internal Attribution
30. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
anal stage
Conformity
Private Conformity
Statistical Deviance
31. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
Superego
Private Conformity
Stress as a Response
External Attribution
32. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Health Psychology
MMPI
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Obedience
33. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
girl phallic stage
lexical hypothesis
TriPartite Model: Behavior
insecure-anxious attachment
34. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
TriPartite Model: Affect
Normative Influence
WAIS
HPA axis
35. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Factors that predict relationship success
Criteria for Abnormal
Internal Attribution
36. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Superego
Treatment for Schizophrenia
latency stage
Internalized Standard
37. 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
TriPartite Model: Affect
Behavior: Extinction Method
Shaping
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
38. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Identity vs Role Confusion
internalization
Cooperation
Integrity vs Despair
39. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
zone of proximal development
Fundamental Attribution Error
Informational Influence
External Attribution
40. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Evolutionary Psych
Rational Emotive Therapy
preoperational
Stress as a Transaction
41. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Working Memory
Phobia
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Flynn Effect
42. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
phallic stage
Social Psychology
preoperational
girl phallic stage
43. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
GAD Treatments
Private Conformity
Things that can influence IQ scores
Door in the Face
44. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
concrete operational
Biopsychosocial Model
Transformation of Motivation
Identity vs Role Confusion
45. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
Psychopathology
egocentrism
object permanence
TriPartite Model: Affect
46. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Normative Influence
Eustress
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Cooperation
47. Physical vs. social interaction
aptitude test
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
48. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Integrity vs Despair
oral stage
Things that can influence IQ scores
Evolutionary Psych
49. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Trait Theory
Factors that predict relationship success
Normative Influence
Integrity vs Despair
50. 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
Behavior: Extinction Method
Shaping
Causes for Phobias