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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
lexical hypothesis
Working Memory
Behavior: Extinction Method
Perceptual Organization
2. Physical vs. social interaction
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Normative Influence
zone of proximal development
girl phallic stage
3. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Psychosis
Interdependence Theory
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Flynn Effect
4. 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
sensorimotor
Id
General Adaptation Syndrome
Coping Strategies for Stress
5. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
Fundamental Attribution Error
Harlow's Experiment
Marucha Study
projective tests
6. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Rational Emotive Therapy
internalization
sensorimotor
Industry vs Inferiority
7. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Generativity vs Stagnation
Asch study
Autonomy vs Doubt
conservation
8. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
Processing Speed
Things that can influence IQ scores
Integrity vs Despair
secure attachment
9. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
lexical hypothesis
Milgrams Explanations
Stressors
Initiative vs Guilt
10. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Transformation of Motivation
Evolutionary Psych
egocentrism
Attitude
11. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
The Big Five
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Internal Attribution
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
12. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Theory of Parental Investment
Realistic Conflict
Transformation of Motivation
Private Conformity
13. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Clinical Psychology
Stressors
achievement test
14. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
anal stage
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Clinical Psychology
Stages of Appraisal
15. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
External Attribution
Ecclectic Therapists
Verbal Comprehension
Anxiety Disorder
16. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
HPA axis
boy phallic stage
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Statistical Deviance
17. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Discrimination
Things that can influence IQ scores
TriPartite Model: Behavior
concrete operational
18. + 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
Biopsychosocial Model
Milgrams Explanations
electra complex
19. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Realistic Conflict
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Industry vs Inferiority
Psychopathology
20. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
External Attribution
Stress
DSM Axes
secure attachment
21. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
preoperational
Internal Attribution
latency stage
Door in the Face
22. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Shaping
lexical hypothesis
aptitude test
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
23. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
TriPartite Model: Cognition
phallic stage
Milgrams Explanations
Trust vs Mistrust
24. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
Interdependence Theory
DSM Axes
Phobia Treatments
Stress as a Response
25. Dental students were given a puncture wound in their mouth and measure how long it would heal - Results: wounds took longer to heal during exams than during the summer (stress)
Phobia
Marucha Study
Trait Theory
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
26. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Sheridan & King Study
castration complex
Criteria for Abnormal
Cialdini's Compliance
27. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Evolutionary Psych
Milgrams Explanations
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Normative Influence
28. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Industry vs Inferiority
Sheridan & King Study
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
phallic stage
29. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Harlow's Experiment
Rosenhan Experiment
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Cultural Deviance
30. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Satisfaction
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Phobia
Working Memory
31. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
castration complex
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Attitude
achievement test
32. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Causes of Schizophrenia
Realistic Conflict
Emotional Distress
achievement test
33. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Realistic Conflict
Coping Strategies for Stress
External Attribution
Industry vs Inferiority
34. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Social Roles
Psychosis
Causes for Phobias
35. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
Shaping
anxiety
Kelley's Covariation Model
Dysfunction
36. Against culture norms - behavior often paired with societal disapproval - disapproval is not enough (sexism - racism)
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Conformity
Cultural Deviance
37. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
achievement test
electra complex
Marucha Study
TriPartite Model: Behavior
38. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
preoperational
anal stage
Transformation of Motivation
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
39. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Stanford Prison Study
Trait Theory
achievement test
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
40. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Marucha Study
DSM Axes
Autonomy vs Doubt
41. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Social Roles
Trust vs Mistrust
Stress as a Transaction
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
42. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Conformity
concrete operational
Satisfaction
Working Memory
43. Beliefs about the object
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Superego
44. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
boy phallic stage
Door in the Face
Internalized Standard
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
45. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
Initiative vs Guilt
Generativity vs Stagnation
Working Memory
Anxiety Disorder
46. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Stress as a Transaction
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Flynn Effect
Ego
47. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
Interdependence Theory
insecure-anxious attachment
Things that can influence IQ scores
Internal Attribution
48. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Id
Attitude
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
conservation
49. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Personality
Generativity vs Stagnation
Perceptual Organization
Shaping
50. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
achievement test
Statistical Deviance
Causes for Phobias
Causes for Phobias