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Elementary Psychology
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1. 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
Private Conformity
Cattell's Source Traits
Psychopathology
Stages of Appraisal
2. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Integrity vs Despair
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Shaping
Stressors as Stimuli
3. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
achievement test
projective tests
Id
Flynn Effect
4. Inconsistent behavior/confused
External Attribution
Working Memory
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
disorganized attachment
5. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Satisfaction
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Biopsychosocial Model
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
6. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
boy phallic stage
Cultural Deviance
Psychopathology
attachment
7. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Intimacy vs Isolation
Phobia
Interdependence Theory
Private Conformity
8. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Biopsychosocial Model
insecure-anxious attachment
Criteria for Abnormal
9. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Phobia Treatments
Superego
Initiative vs Guilt
Social Roles
10. 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
Anxiety Disorder
Dependence
Social Roles
Stanford Prison Study
11. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
egocentrism
Internalized Standard
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
12. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Rosenhan Experiment
latency stage
External Attribution
Integrity vs Despair
13. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
phallic stage
object permanence
Internal Attribution
Theory of Parental Investment
14. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
Things that can influence IQ scores
Superego
Behavior Therapy
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
15. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Conformity
Criteria for Abnormal
Flynn Effect
16. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
Shaping
Schizophrenia
Conformity
anal stage
17. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Attributions
Trait Theory
castration complex
To Reduce Dissonance...
18. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Stress as a Transaction
Trait Theory
object permanence
19. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Processing Speed
Perceptual Organization
sensorimotor
Cognitive Therapy
20. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Psychosis
Discrimination
Fundamental Attribution Error
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
21. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Realistic Conflict
boy phallic stage
Milgrams Explanations
insecure-anxious attachment
22. 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
lexical hypothesis
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
oral stage
Stanford Prison Study
23. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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24. 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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25. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Token Economy
achievement test
preoperational
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
26. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
projective tests
Biopsychosocial Model
Transformation of Motivation
TriPartite Model: Behavior
27. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
conservation
anal stage
Trait Theory
Personality
28. Study of the mental illness of the brain
Psychopathology
Cognitive Therapy
Prejudice
Anxiety Disorder
29. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
difference between piaget and vygotsky
anal stage
DSM-IV-TR
Superego
30. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
Stress as a Response
preoperational
Obedience
Social Psychology
31. No response to leaving or returning
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Biopsychosocial Model
insecure-avoidant attachment
Basic Cognitive Therapy
32. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Social Psychology
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Cognitive Dissonance
The Big Five
33. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
conservation
Stress
Obedience
Intimacy vs Isolation
34. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Things that can influence IQ scores
Behavior Therapy
Trust vs Mistrust
Anxiety Disorder
35. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Dependence
Causes for Phobias
DSM-IV-TR
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
36. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
Psychopathology
Phobia
Flynn Effect
aptitude test
37. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
egocentrism
Biopsychosocial Model
Personality
38. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Prejudice
Internalized Standard
projective tests
39. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Superego
Initiative vs Guilt
Health Psychology
electra complex
40. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Distress
zone of proximal development
castration complex
Stanley Milgram Study
41. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
internalization
genital stage
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Causes of Schizophrenia
42. 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
Coping Strategies for Stress
HPA axis
Integrity vs Despair
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
43. Sexually desire their mother
Theory of Parental Investment
oedipus complex
Generativity vs Stagnation
General Adaptation Syndrome
44. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
HPA axis
Basic Cognitive Therapy
General Adaptation Syndrome
insecure-anxious attachment
45. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Informational Influence
Stress
46. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Stanford Prison Study
Cognitive Therapy
Clinical Psychology
47. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
Ecclectic Therapists
Satisfaction
Dependence
Superego
48. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Working Memory
genital stage
Causes of Schizophrenia
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
49. Emotions about the object
castration complex
formal operational
TriPartite Model: Affect
Personality
50. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
TAT
Verbal Comprehension
Kelley's Covariation Model
achievement test