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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
MMPI
insecure-avoidant attachment
Discrimination
Coping Strategies for Stress
2. 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
conservation
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
DSM Axes
3. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Cattell's Source Traits
Cooperation
Stanley Milgram Study
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
4. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Conformity
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
DSM-IV-TR
Criteria for Abnormal
5. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Working Memory
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
anal stage
Discrimination
6. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
Asch study
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Cooperation
insecure-anxious attachment
7. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Anxiety Disorder
Intimacy vs Isolation
Phobia Treatments
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
8. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
Realistic Conflict
Working Memory
Realistic Conflict
sensorimotor
9. 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
Public Conformity
Cognitive Dissonance
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Stereotype
10. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Initiative vs Guilt
Distress
Cialdini's Compliance
11. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Verbal Comprehension
Criteria for Abnormal
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
phallic stage
12. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
Ego
electra complex
Stereotype
genital stage
13. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
TAT
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Behavior: Extinction Method
Dysfunction
14. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Cognitive Dissonance
Rational Emotive Therapy
Ego
Things that can influence IQ scores
15. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Rosenhan Experiment
Stress
Foot in the Door
WAIS
16. No response to leaving or returning
Internalized Standard
Factors that predict relationship success
Biopsychosocial Model
insecure-avoidant attachment
17. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Superego
Stanley Milgram Study
DSM Axes
electra complex
18. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Trait Theory
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Statistical Deviance
19. Measure personality in basic units - named factors A - B - C - etc. - identified 16 factors - [ex=intelligence - boldness - insecurity - self-discipline - tension]
20. Worry that father will cut their penis off
Stress as a Transaction
castration complex
object permanence
Cognitive Dissonance
21. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
castration complex
Emotional Distress
preoperational
Rational Emotive Therapy
22. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
internalization
Flynn Effect
Distress
Stress as a Response
23. 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
24. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
Interdependence Theory
anxiety
Public Conformity
Perceptual Organization
25. 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
Behavior Therapy
DSM Axes
Obedience
Cialdini's Compliance
26. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Social Identity
GAD Treatments
insecure-avoidant attachment
zone of proximal development
27. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Schizophrenia
Pygmalion effect
Satisfaction
GAD Treatments
28. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Dysfunction
Superego
Internal Attribution
Token Economy
29. 1) development is more continues than stage-like 2) changing procedures a little bit changes results a lot 3) methods culturally biased
30. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Behavior Therapy
anal stage
Processing Speed
Door in the Face
31. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Causes of Schizophrenia
Attributions
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
conservation
32. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
preoperational
Phobia
Intimacy vs Isolation
Superego
33. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
object permanence
Attributions
Asch study
HPA axis
34. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Attributions
Public Conformity
Psychopathology
Cognitive Dissonance
35. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution
Obedience
Stereotype
insecure-avoidant attachment
Milgrams Explanations
36. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Superego
oedipus complex
Transformation of Motivation
Phobia Treatments
37. Study of the mental illness of the brain
Psychopathology
Criteria for Abnormal
Initiative vs Guilt
Stress as a Response
38. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
HPA axis
Generativity vs Stagnation
Prejudice
Anxiety Disorder
39. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
achievement test
conservation
Cognitive Therapy
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
40. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
achievement test
Transformation of Motivation
Psychopathology
TriPartite Model: Cognition
41. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
Stressors as Stimuli
secure attachment
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Integrity vs Despair
42. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Behavior: Extinction Method
Schizophrenia
Autonomy vs Doubt
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
43. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
disorganized attachment
sensorimotor
Stanley Milgram Study
Stress
44. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
Transformation of Motivation
oral stage
boy phallic stage
Social Identity
45. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
46. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Shaping
Realistic Conflict
phallic stage
47. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
Behavior: Extinction Method
Generativity vs Stagnation
genital stage
insecure-avoidant attachment
48. 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
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
WAIS
formal operational
49. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
Pygmalion effect
GAD Treatments
Criteria for Abnormal
Stress as a Response
50. 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?