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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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1. Intended to reflect what you have already learned






2. Study of the mental illness of the brain






3. 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






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






5. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others






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






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






8. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person






9. Intended to reflect what you have already learned






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






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






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






13. Most common/successful intelligence test






14. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse






15. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver






16. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'






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






18. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots






19. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity






20. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges






21. 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






22. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through






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






24. Emotions about the object






25. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]






26. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]






27. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father






28. Focus on the outcome of being in a situation that causes stress - stress is a physiological response Ex: fight or flight vs General Adaptation Syndrome






29. 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






30. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back






31. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation






32. Objects are remembered even when out of sight






33. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)






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






35. Change behavior - change attitude






36. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]






37. 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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38. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc






39. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms






40. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family






41. Genetic component & environmental conditioning






42. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship






43. Study of the mental illness of the brain






44. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams






45. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding






46. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]






47. 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?






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






49. Cannot see things from another persons perspective






50. Worry that father will cut their penis off