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Elementary Psychology
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1. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Stanford Prison Study
Realistic Conflict
The Big Five
2. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Attitude
formal operational
Cognitive Dissonance
Anxiety Disorder
3. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
TAT
Psychopathology
Conformity
Psychosis
4. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Conformity
Phobia
Kelley's Covariation Model
Industry vs Inferiority
5. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
conservation
Informational Influence
Biopsychosocial Model
GAD Treatments
6. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
Marucha Study
Cultural Deviance
lexical hypothesis
Statistical Deviance
7. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
Normative Influence
boy phallic stage
Ecclectic Therapists
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
8. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
HPA axis
Cognitive Dissonance
aptitude test
Rational Emotive Therapy
9. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Foot in the Door
projective tests
Informational Influence
anxiety
10. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
anal stage
Psychopathology
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Id
11. 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
Industry vs Inferiority
Generativity vs Stagnation
General Adaptation Syndrome
Internalized Standard
12. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
Token Economy
Transformation of Motivation
egocentrism
Causes for Phobias
13. 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
Ego
secure attachment
Stanford Prison Study
Eustress
14. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
The Big Five
disorganized attachment
Interdependence Theory
15. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Foot in the Door
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Rational Emotive Therapy
16. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
preoperational
lexical hypothesis
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Psychopathology
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
Ego
Foot in the Door
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Cattell's Source Traits
18. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Flynn Effect
Causes for Phobias
lexical hypothesis
projective tests
19. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Evolutionary Psych
WAIS
Stressors as Stimuli
Cialdini's Compliance
20. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Sheridan & King Study
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Trust vs Mistrust
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
21. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
Realistic Conflict
Psychosis
GAD Treatments
Psychopathology
22. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
egocentrism
Emotional Distress
Interdependence Theory
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
23. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Token Economy
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Causes of Schizophrenia
24. 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?
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25. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
projective tests
Perceptual Organization
Transformation of Motivation
Cognitive Dissonance
26. No response to leaving or returning
aptitude test
insecure-avoidant attachment
Trust vs Mistrust
latency stage
27. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
secure attachment
Normative Influence
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Clinical Psychology
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
Cognitive Dissonance
egocentrism
girl phallic stage
29. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Social Identity
Attitude
Internal Attribution
Biopsychosocial Model
30. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
DSM Axes
Stressors as Stimuli
Cognitive Dissonance
31. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
WAIS
Cognitive Therapy
concrete operational
sensorimotor
32. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
phallic stage
External Attribution
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Ecclectic Therapists
33. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
Social Psychology
Token Economy
Distress
internalization
34. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
girl phallic stage
Social Roles
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Private Conformity
35. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
projective tests
aptitude test
Fundamental Attribution Error
achievement test
36. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Internal Attribution
Evolutionary Psych
Stanford Prison Study
Attributions
37. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
Theory of Parental Investment
Informational Influence
TriPartite Model: Affect
Stages of Appraisal
38. 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
Phobia Treatments
Dysfunction
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Stress as a Response
39. Change behavior - change attitude
TriPartite Model: Cognition
castration complex
To Reduce Dissonance...
phallic stage
40. Emotions about the object
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
General Adaptation Syndrome
Cialdini's Compliance
TriPartite Model: Affect
41. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
girl phallic stage
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Social Identity
Treatment for Schizophrenia
42. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
Cognitive Dissonance
secure attachment
Sheridan & King Study
attachment
43. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Cialdini's Compliance
aptitude test
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Stanley Milgram Study
44. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Factors that predict relationship success
egocentrism
Causes for Phobias
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
45. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
internalization
Foot in the Door
46. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
concrete operational
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Stress
47. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Perceptual Organization
Health Psychology
Milgrams Explanations
Asch study
48. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Behavior: Extinction Method
Token Economy
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Transformation of Motivation
49. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
Dysfunction
Causes for Phobias
Trust vs Mistrust
secure attachment
50. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Eustress
Autonomy vs Doubt
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
oral stage