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Elementary Psychology
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1. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution
Causes for Phobias
GAD Treatments
Milgrams Explanations
Obedience
2. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Eustress
Coping Strategies for Stress
girl phallic stage
Trust vs Mistrust
3. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Ego
Dependence
Stress as a Response
conservation
4. 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
Cultural Deviance
Foot in the Door
Internal Attribution
Factors that predict relationship success
5. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Causes of Schizophrenia
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Industry vs Inferiority
Distress
6. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
Phobia Treatments
phallic stage
Behavior: Extinction Method
Private Conformity
7. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
Initiative vs Guilt
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
secure attachment
electra complex
8. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Flynn Effect
Stereotype
latency stage
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
9. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Informational Influence
Personality
Realistic Conflict
Conformity
10. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
phallic stage
object permanence
Rosenhan Experiment
11. 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
HPA axis
Stages of Appraisal
Stanley Milgram Study
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
12. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
Initiative vs Guilt
Working Memory
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Internal Attribution
13. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
egocentrism
anal stage
formal operational
attachment
14. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
Interdependence Theory
Statistical Deviance
Causes for Phobias
TriPartite Model: Cognition
15. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Private Conformity
Rational Emotive Therapy
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Flynn Effect
16. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Milgrams Explanations
boy phallic stage
Marucha Study
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
17. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Things that can influence IQ scores
Schizophrenia
MMPI
object permanence
18. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Discrimination
WAIS
Id
Pygmalion effect
19. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Social Identity
MMPI
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
20. Study of the mental illness of the brain
TAT
Flynn Effect
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Psychopathology
21. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Informational Influence
Behavior Therapy
General Adaptation Syndrome
22. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
projective tests
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
boy phallic stage
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
23. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Normative Influence
insecure-avoidant attachment
Interdependence Theory
24. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Cognitive Therapy
Clinical Psychology
Anxiety Disorder
Ego
25. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Schizophrenia
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Shaping
Ego
26. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
Token Economy
electra complex
Ecclectic Therapists
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
27. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
Interdependence Theory
Verbal Comprehension
insecure-anxious attachment
Informational Influence
28. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Interdependence Theory
secure attachment
formal operational
29. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
Social Identity
Door in the Face
oral stage
object permanence
30. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Cultural Deviance
Processing Speed
Ecclectic Therapists
Causes for Phobias
31. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Cooperation
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Stressors
Cognitive Dissonance
32. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
conservation
Cognitive Therapy
33. Physical vs. social interaction
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Verbal Comprehension
insecure-anxious attachment
34. 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
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
object permanence
Identity vs Role Confusion
35. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Superego
Biopsychosocial Model
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Discrimination
36. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
anxiety
egocentrism
Dysfunction
Sheridan & King Study
37. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
Autonomy vs Doubt
lexical hypothesis
Asch study
concrete operational
38. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
WAIS
Stress as a Transaction
Private Conformity
39. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Industry vs Inferiority
Conformity
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Cognitive Dissonance
40. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
Social Roles
General Adaptation Syndrome
Initiative vs Guilt
Informational Influence
41. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
Working Memory
Attributions
Ecclectic Therapists
insecure-anxious attachment
42. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Flynn Effect
GAD Treatments
Criteria for Abnormal
Phobia Treatments
43. 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
Social Psychology
Schizophrenia
Stanford Prison Study
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
44. Inconsistent behavior/confused
disorganized attachment
boy phallic stage
preoperational
Milgrams Explanations
45. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
electra complex
Stress
Trait Theory
Treatment for Schizophrenia
46. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
lexical hypothesis
Things that can influence IQ scores
Cultural Deviance
Biopsychosocial Model
47. 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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48. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Processing Speed
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Ecclectic Therapists
Criteria for Abnormal
49. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
Cialdini's Compliance
Criteria for Abnormal
Phobia Treatments
anal stage
50. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
Processing Speed
Working Memory
Dysfunction
GAD Treatments