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Elementary Psychology
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1. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Clinical Psychology
DSM-IV-TR
To Reduce Dissonance...
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
2. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Stress as a Transaction
phallic stage
3. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
preoperational
anal stage
Stressors
Behavior Therapy
4. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Evolutionary Psych
Stereotype
Perceptual Organization
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
5. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
anxiety
Informational Influence
Schizophrenia
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
6. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
HPA axis
Eustress
Integrity vs Despair
7. Measure personality in basic units - named factors A - B - C - etc. - identified 16 factors - [ex=intelligence - boldness - insecurity - self-discipline - tension]
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8. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Eustress
Ego
Pygmalion effect
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
9. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Cognitive Therapy
Dependence
Psychosis
Token Economy
10. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
secure attachment
Working Memory
Foot in the Door
11. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
External Attribution
Working Memory
TriPartite Model: Behavior
internalization
12. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior
Intimacy vs Isolation
Rational Emotive Therapy
Trait Theory
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
13. Measuring the ability to concentrate - similarities: how are a thermometer and a ruler alike? - vocabulary: what does covert mean? - information: who was George Washington Carver?
secure attachment
Verbal Comprehension
insecure-avoidant attachment
insecure-anxious attachment
14. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Psychopathology
Stress
Distress
Stressors
15. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Phobia
Evolutionary Psych
Social Identity
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
16. Beliefs about the object
Evolutionary Psych
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Ego
Milgrams Explanations
17. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
Intimacy vs Isolation
projective tests
formal operational
Psychopathology
18. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
Transformation of Motivation
aptitude test
Stress
disorganized attachment
19. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Dependence
castration complex
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
zone of proximal development
20. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
Milgrams Explanations
oedipus complex
Ecclectic Therapists
latency stage
21. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Verbal Comprehension
Internal Attribution
Phobia Treatments
Processing Speed
22. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
Cognitive Dissonance
zone of proximal development
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
TAT
23. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Stress as a Transaction
Criteria for Abnormal
lexical hypothesis
The Big Five
24. Study of the mental illness of the brain
egocentrism
Causes of Schizophrenia
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Psychopathology
25. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
aptitude test
Internal Attribution
Sheridan & King Study
anal stage
26. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Fundamental Attribution Error
Social Roles
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Theory of Parental Investment
27. 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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28. Change behavior - change attitude
To Reduce Dissonance...
Private Conformity
Social Identity
Internal Attribution
29. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
internalization
Causes for Phobias
The Big Five
Treatment for Schizophrenia
30. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
object permanence
Perceptual Organization
Stressors
Sheridan & King Study
31. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
Attributions
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Satisfaction
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
32. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution
Door in the Face
Milgrams Explanations
secure attachment
Harlow's Experiment
33. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Health Psychology
Stress as a Transaction
Intimacy vs Isolation
Causes of Schizophrenia
34. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Discrimination
oral stage
Marucha Study
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
35. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Initiative vs Guilt
Generativity vs Stagnation
Sheridan & King Study
Internal Attribution
36. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
WAIS
Theory of Parental Investment
formal operational
concrete operational
37. 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
Door in the Face
Superego
Psychosis
Milgrams Explanations
38. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
Biopsychosocial Model
latency stage
Statistical Deviance
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
39. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
projective tests
WAIS
Stanford Prison Study
concrete operational
40. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Cultural Deviance
Stanley Milgram Study
Identity vs Role Confusion
lexical hypothesis
41. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Private Conformity
Fundamental Attribution Error
insecure-avoidant attachment
Conformity
42. Sexually desire their mother
Verbal Comprehension
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
oedipus complex
Superego
43. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Things that can influence IQ scores
Generativity vs Stagnation
Causes of Schizophrenia
To Reduce Dissonance...
44. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
oral stage
Superego
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Prejudice
45. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
achievement test
Realistic Conflict
Sheridan & King Study
internalization
46. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
Stress as a Response
girl phallic stage
internalization
Cognitive Therapy
47. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Conformity
Ego
Flynn Effect
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
48. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
electra complex
Superego
sensorimotor
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
49. Emotions about the object
Cialdini's Compliance
Industry vs Inferiority
TriPartite Model: Affect
Causes of Schizophrenia
50. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
conservation
Door in the Face
Sheridan & King Study