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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Integrity vs Despair
Generativity vs Stagnation
Schizophrenia
Token Economy
2. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
internalization
castration complex
Autonomy vs Doubt
Flynn Effect
3. Change behavior - change attitude
Dysfunction
object permanence
To Reduce Dissonance...
latency stage
4. 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)
Schizophrenia
zone of proximal development
Attitude
Marucha Study
5. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Cattell's Source Traits
Trust vs Mistrust
Social Roles
Phobia
6. Against culture norms - behavior often paired with societal disapproval - disapproval is not enough (sexism - racism)
egocentrism
Cultural Deviance
The Big Five
General Adaptation Syndrome
7. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Identity vs Role Confusion
latency stage
Schizophrenia
difference between piaget and vygotsky
8. 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
Superego
Coping Strategies for Stress
Causes of Schizophrenia
GAD Treatments
9. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
internalization
Personality
Trust vs Mistrust
Rosenhan Experiment
10. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Realistic Conflict
Cognitive Therapy
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Ecclectic Therapists
11. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Integrity vs Despair
Prejudice
Harlow's Experiment
Dependence
12. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
Eustress
Coping Strategies for Stress
disorganized attachment
Prejudice
13. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Verbal Comprehension
14. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Attributions
Internal Attribution
Kelley's Covariation Model
Psychopathology
15. 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)
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Asch study
Stressors
Marucha Study
16. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Superego
Stress as a Response
Emotional Distress
genital stage
17. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
egocentrism
Working Memory
Pygmalion effect
concrete operational
18. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Stress
GAD Treatments
Causes of Schizophrenia
castration complex
19. Most common/successful intelligence test
Eustress
WAIS
Identity vs Role Confusion
Discrimination
20. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Psychosis
Token Economy
girl phallic stage
Working Memory
21. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
internalization
electra complex
Psychopathology
Causes of Schizophrenia
22. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Stereotype
Verbal Comprehension
TriPartite Model: Affect
Normative Influence
23. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
Id
Asch study
Social Psychology
Identity vs Role Confusion
24. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
Realistic Conflict
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
TriPartite Model: Behavior
projective tests
25. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
Criteria for Abnormal
Autonomy vs Doubt
conservation
Public Conformity
26. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
General Adaptation Syndrome
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Treatment for Schizophrenia
27. Most common/successful intelligence test
Private Conformity
oedipus complex
Superego
WAIS
28. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Transformation of Motivation
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Prejudice
Freud's Background Info
29. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Token Economy
GAD Treatments
DSM-IV-TR
30. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Rational Emotive Therapy
Causes of Schizophrenia
Phobia Treatments
Eustress
31. 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?
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Harlow's Experiment
Verbal Comprehension
anxiety
32. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Things that can influence IQ scores
egocentrism
Kelley's Covariation Model
33. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
TriPartite Model: Cognition
sensorimotor
Shaping
girl phallic stage
34. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Fundamental Attribution Error
girl phallic stage
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Flynn Effect
35. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Generativity vs Stagnation
Shaping
Discrimination
oral stage
36. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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37. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution
Milgrams Explanations
anxiety
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
MMPI
38. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Theory of Parental Investment
The Big Five
Things that can influence IQ scores
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
39. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
sensorimotor
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Sheridan & King Study
40. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
Evolutionary Psych
concrete operational
Trust vs Mistrust
Basic Cognitive Therapy
41. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Attitude
Id
Pygmalion effect
conservation
42. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Phobia
Token Economy
Dysfunction
Psychopathology
43. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
disorganized attachment
Normative Influence
internalization
Industry vs Inferiority
44. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
attachment
oedipus complex
Social Psychology
Trait Theory
45. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Criteria for Abnormal
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Marucha Study
46. 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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47. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Rational Emotive Therapy
To Reduce Dissonance...
Autonomy vs Doubt
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
48. 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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49. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
Conformity
Pygmalion effect
disorganized attachment
Stressors as Stimuli
50. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
Identity vs Role Confusion
Satisfaction
Transformation of Motivation
Things that can influence IQ scores