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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Jealousy/hatred of all other women






2. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events






3. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior






4. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior






5. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world






6. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk






7. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed






8. Physical vs. social interaction






9. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ






10. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source






11. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives






12. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]






13. No response to leaving or returning






14. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process






15. 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






16. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion






17. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation






18. Lived in End of Romatic Era (emphasis on expression - art - passion - sexuality relatively liberal) -grew up in Victorian Age (sexuality is taboo - emphasis on public decency/morality - paternal) -mothers first born and favorite child -love/hate rela

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19. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior






20. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]






21. 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






22. Change behavior - change attitude






23. 1. Intrustions: thinking about it when you don't want to 2. Avoidance: avoid anything that reminds you of the incident 3. Arousal: physically aroused from stimuli of event






24. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount






25. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming






26. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic






27. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request






28. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal






29. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty






30. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount






31. Most common/successful intelligence test






32. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology






33. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods






34. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind






35. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior






36. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave






37. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs






38. Most common/successful intelligence test






39. Beliefs about the object






40. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others






41. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal






42. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]






43. 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






44. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted






45. 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






46. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures






47. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting






48. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal






49. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding






50. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment