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Elementary Psychology
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1. 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
Clinical Psychology
secure attachment
Coping Strategies for Stress
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
2. Ask for a large favor first - followed up with something much smaller - if you say no - you may feel guilty and may say yes to a more reasonable request
latency stage
Conformity
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Door in the Face
3. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
preoperational
boy phallic stage
Attributions
Phobia
4. 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
Phobia Treatments
Satisfaction
DSM Axes
Coping Strategies for Stress
5. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
Foot in the Door
Informational Influence
internalization
Cognitive Therapy
6. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Public Conformity
Generativity vs Stagnation
Behavior Therapy
Causes for Phobias
7. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
disorganized attachment
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
attachment
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
8. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
TriPartite Model: Affect
Dependence
Behavior: Extinction Method
9. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
Social Roles
electra complex
Phobia
zone of proximal development
10. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Emotional Distress
Schizophrenia
Flynn Effect
Psychopathology
11. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Criteria for Abnormal
Stress as a Transaction
DSM-IV-TR
Coping Strategies for Stress
12. Digit span: repeat a set of numbers backwards - arithmetic: If Jessica has 3 packs of gum with 4 packs each - how many sticks will she have for herself if she gives 2 sticks each to 3 friends
Cattell's Source Traits
Working Memory
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
castration complex
13. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Transformation of Motivation
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Criteria for Abnormal
Token Economy
14. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Freud's Background Info
concrete operational
Stereotype
formal operational
15. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
Health Psychology
Integrity vs Despair
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
The Big Five
16. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
formal operational
Identity vs Role Confusion
attachment
Causes for Phobias
17. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
Causes of Schizophrenia
Eustress
Foot in the Door
TAT
18. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
preoperational
Causes for Phobias
Obedience
Dependence
19. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
oedipus complex
Public Conformity
Verbal Comprehension
Rosenhan Experiment
20. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
boy phallic stage
Private Conformity
Causes for Phobias
Emotional Distress
21. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Cognitive Dissonance
latency stage
MMPI
22. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Emotional Distress
Public Conformity
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
23. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Rational Emotive Therapy
Processing Speed
Eustress
Intimacy vs Isolation
24. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Stanford Prison Study
Ego
TAT
Foot in the Door
25. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Working Memory
Industry vs Inferiority
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
TriPartite Model: Behavior
26. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
HPA axis
Phobia Treatments
latency stage
Asch study
27. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group
Freud's Background Info
Factors that predict relationship success
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Generativity vs Stagnation
28. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Kelley's Covariation Model
Distress
Cognitive Dissonance
29. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Id
Cultural Deviance
Trait Theory
Cognitive Therapy
30. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
DSM Axes
Conformity
Phobia Treatments
conservation
31. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Sheridan & King Study
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Stages of Appraisal
Token Economy
32. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Harlow's Experiment
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Dependence
girl phallic stage
33. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Realistic Conflict
Psychopathology
Behavior Therapy
Autonomy vs Doubt
34. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
Stress
electra complex
Trust vs Mistrust
formal operational
35. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
Evolutionary Psych
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
object permanence
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
36. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Rational Emotive Therapy
egocentrism
Coping Strategies for Stress
37. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Normative Influence
Private Conformity
Initiative vs Guilt
Obedience
38. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
secure attachment
Distress
Cognitive Therapy
Informational Influence
39. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
DSM-IV-TR
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Superego
egocentrism
40. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Public Conformity
latency stage
DSM Axes
Psychosis
41. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
MMPI
Flynn Effect
The Big Five
Trait Theory
42. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Causes of Schizophrenia
concrete operational
43. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
Criteria for Abnormal
External Attribution
Flynn Effect
Social Psychology
44. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Behavior Therapy
TriPartite Model: Affect
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
aptitude test
45. 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
Stress as a Response
Door in the Face
Integrity vs Despair
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
46. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Id
Autonomy vs Doubt
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
47. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Trust vs Mistrust
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Personality
Stress
48. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
insecure-avoidant attachment
HPA axis
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
49. Emotions about the object
TAT
Statistical Deviance
Private Conformity
TriPartite Model: Affect
50. Sexually desire their mother
Social Psychology
HPA axis
oedipus complex
DSM-IV-TR