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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed






2. Predisposition to act - actions in the past






3. No response to leaving or returning






4. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above






5. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion






6. No response to leaving or returning






7. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior






8. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]






9. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind






10. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior






11. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave






12. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges






13. Physical vs. social interaction






14. 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?






15. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors






16. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution






17. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others






18. Lived in End of Romatic Era (emphasis on expression - art - passion - sexuality relatively liberal) -grew up in Victorian Age (sexuality is taboo - emphasis on public decency/morality - paternal) -mothers first born and favorite child -love/hate rela

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19. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)






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






21. 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






22. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation






23. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors






24. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others






25. 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






26. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges






27. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'






28. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology






29. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause






30. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs






31. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding






32. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]






33. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ






34. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ






35. 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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36. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]






37. Cannot see things from another persons perspective






38. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted






39. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse






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






41. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'






42. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work






43. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process






44. Predisposition to act - actions in the past






45. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave






46. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies






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






48. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]






49. 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






50. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting