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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Cultural Deviance
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Fundamental Attribution Error
Trust vs Mistrust
2. Inconsistent behavior/confused
Conformity
disorganized attachment
To Reduce Dissonance...
Phobia Treatments
3. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
preoperational
DSM-IV-TR
Cooperation
4. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Personality
Rosenhan Experiment
Cooperation
Perceptual Organization
5. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
Social Psychology
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Shaping
Flynn Effect
6. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
DSM-IV-TR
Attitude
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
7. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Interdependence Theory
Realistic Conflict
DSM-IV-TR
sensorimotor
8. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
Superego
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
sensorimotor
Conformity
9. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
anal stage
Normative Influence
genital stage
Id
10. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Stress as a Response
Asch study
Evolutionary Psych
11. 1) development is more continues than stage-like 2) changing procedures a little bit changes results a lot 3) methods culturally biased
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12. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
lexical hypothesis
formal operational
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Emotional Distress
13. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Trust vs Mistrust
Internal Attribution
Flynn Effect
Shaping
14. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Public Conformity
difference between piaget and vygotsky
anxiety
The Big Five
15. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
projective tests
Psychopathology
Emotional Distress
Door in the Face
16. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
Fundamental Attribution Error
boy phallic stage
achievement test
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
17. Inconsistent behavior/confused
oedipus complex
preoperational
disorganized attachment
Cattell's Source Traits
18. Beliefs about the object
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Identity vs Role Confusion
Psychopathology
19. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
Treatment for Schizophrenia
aptitude test
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Attributions
20. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Initiative vs Guilt
Normative Influence
Fundamental Attribution Error
Stressors
21. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
aptitude test
Ecclectic Therapists
Satisfaction
Cognitive Therapy
22. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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23. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Cooperation
Personality
Harlow's Experiment
Biopsychosocial Model
24. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Stress as a Transaction
Causes for Phobias
Stress
Kelley's Covariation Model
25. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
lexical hypothesis
Cattell's Source Traits
attachment
Eustress
26. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Trait Theory
Behavior Therapy
Stereotype
Rational Emotive Therapy
27. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
Dysfunction
Flynn Effect
conservation
Superego
28. 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
DSM Axes
Foot in the Door
Rational Emotive Therapy
Transformation of Motivation
29. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Cooperation
insecure-avoidant attachment
HPA axis
Public Conformity
30. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Phobia Treatments
To Reduce Dissonance...
Cooperation
boy phallic stage
31. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Interdependence Theory
Personality
Id
32. Physical vs. social interaction
Biopsychosocial Model
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Stressors
Token Economy
33. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Psychosis
Anxiety Disorder
Discrimination
Asch study
34. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Perceptual Organization
Psychosis
Sheridan & King Study
35. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
Dysfunction
Stanley Milgram Study
TriPartite Model: Affect
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
36. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
Attitude
Clinical Psychology
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
37. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Stress as a Transaction
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
phallic stage
Phobia Treatments
38. 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
formal operational
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Internal Attribution
General Adaptation Syndrome
39. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes
secure attachment
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Rational Emotive Therapy
DSM-IV-TR
40. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Factors that predict relationship success
Stress
Initiative vs Guilt
41. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
Fundamental Attribution Error
Discrimination
Social Psychology
Social Roles
42. 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
DSM Axes
Informational Influence
Factors that predict relationship success
latency stage
43. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Causes for Phobias
Statistical Deviance
attachment
HPA axis
44. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Industry vs Inferiority
Schizophrenia
insecure-avoidant attachment
Behavior Therapy
45. 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
Foot in the Door
Flynn Effect
aptitude test
Criteria for Abnormal
46. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
Realistic Conflict
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Obedience
Normative Influence
47. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Industry vs Inferiority
Attributions
Intimacy vs Isolation
attachment
48. Foot in the door vs door in the face
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49. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
Personality
anal stage
DSM Axes
Trait Theory
50. 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
TriPartite Model: Behavior
anxiety
Attributions