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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return






2. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]






3. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person






4. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation






5. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family






6. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through






7. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back






8. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world






9. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic






10. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction






11. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism






12. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause






13. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm






14. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth






15. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]






16. Inconsistent behavior/confused






17. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would






18. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through






19. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]






20. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges






21. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them






22. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc






23. Physical vs. social interaction






24. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses






25. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk






26. Study of the mental illness of the brain






27. Predisposition to act - actions in the past






28. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]






29. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver






30. 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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31. Ask for a small favor first - followed up with a larger request - if you say yes once - you are more likely to say yes later






32. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges






33. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior






34. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request






35. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back






36. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would






37. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute






38. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic






39. 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






40. Worry that father will cut their penis off






41. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction






42. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms






43. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods






44. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]






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






46. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]






47. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors






48. 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






49. Measuring the ability to concentrate - similarities: how are a thermometer and a ruler alike? - vocabulary: what does covert mean? - information: who was George Washington Carver?






50. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior