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Elementary Psychology
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1. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior
Factors that predict relationship success
Internalized Standard
disorganized attachment
Trait Theory
2. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Trust vs Mistrust
Clinical Psychology
Schizophrenia
preoperational
3. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Normative Influence
Interdependence Theory
Factors that predict relationship success
Integrity vs Despair
4. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Distress
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cialdini's Compliance
Rosenhan Experiment
5. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
sensorimotor
Stanford Prison Study
Clinical Psychology
Satisfaction
6. 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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7. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
Cattell's Source Traits
Stanford Prison Study
preoperational
Superego
8. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Behavior Therapy
Attributions
Social Roles
latency stage
9. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
Interdependence Theory
projective tests
Fundamental Attribution Error
internalization
10. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Phobia Treatments
Dependence
girl phallic stage
Stanford Prison Study
11. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
Stress as a Transaction
projective tests
Id
egocentrism
12. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Pygmalion effect
MMPI
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
13. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Psychopathology
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Satisfaction
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
14. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
Public Conformity
Identity vs Role Confusion
Door in the Face
zone of proximal development
15. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Conformity
Behavior: Extinction Method
Theory of Parental Investment
16. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
egocentrism
sensorimotor
Processing Speed
attachment
17. 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
MMPI
Interdependence Theory
Trust vs Mistrust
Foot in the Door
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
Stress
Factors that predict relationship success
Attitude
Stanford Prison Study
19. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
insecure-anxious attachment
anal stage
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Stanley Milgram Study
20. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Verbal Comprehension
Perceptual Organization
Pygmalion effect
Intimacy vs Isolation
21. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Door in the Face
22. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
TriPartite Model: Affect
Emotional Distress
Informational Influence
Industry vs Inferiority
23. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Stressors as Stimuli
Ego
Token Economy
Marucha Study
24. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
Psychosis
conservation
Public Conformity
TriPartite Model: Affect
25. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
phallic stage
Verbal Comprehension
Stereotype
genital stage
26. 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
Sheridan & King Study
Behavior Therapy
DSM Axes
Stanford Prison Study
27. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
TriPartite Model: Affect
Conformity
Trait Theory
Realistic Conflict
28. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Conformity
Social Roles
conservation
Stress as a Response
29. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
The Big Five
Verbal Comprehension
Criteria for Abnormal
Psychopathology
30. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
Pygmalion effect
Social Psychology
concrete operational
Cultural Deviance
31. 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
Biopsychosocial Model
Interdependence Theory
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
32. Beliefs about the object
Behavior: Extinction Method
Factors that predict relationship success
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
33. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
attachment
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Normative Influence
anal stage
34. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
Realistic Conflict
Ecclectic Therapists
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
insecure-anxious attachment
35. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Internalized Standard
Evolutionary Psych
Id
Phobia
36. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Attributions
object permanence
Internal Attribution
37. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Token Economy
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Phobia Treatments
38. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Pygmalion effect
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Generativity vs Stagnation
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
39. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Perceptual Organization
Stanford Prison Study
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Cattell's Source Traits
40. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Autonomy vs Doubt
Schizophrenia
Coping Strategies for Stress
41. 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
Prejudice
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Processing Speed
42. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
Asch study
To Reduce Dissonance...
Internal Attribution
Social Psychology
43. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
The Big Five
Industry vs Inferiority
Realistic Conflict
concrete operational
44. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
General Adaptation Syndrome
TriPartite Model: Affect
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
45. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
lexical hypothesis
Behavior: Extinction Method
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
TriPartite Model: Cognition
46. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Harlow's Experiment
aptitude test
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Interdependence Theory
47. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Superego
TriPartite Model: Affect
Things that can influence IQ scores
Intimacy vs Isolation
48. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Industry vs Inferiority
TriPartite Model: Affect
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Cognitive Dissonance
49. Study of the mental illness of the brain
TAT
girl phallic stage
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Psychopathology
50. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Factors that predict relationship success
Causes for Phobias
TriPartite Model: Behavior
External Attribution