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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed






2. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back






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






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






5. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase






6. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something






7. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system






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






9. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures






10. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges






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






12. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system






13. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety






14. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change






15. I. Clinical Disorders (alcohol dependence) II. Personality Disorders & Mental Retardation (antisocial personality disorder) III. Medical Conditions (cirrhosis of liver) IV. Social Functioning & stressors (death of child - marital stress) V. Global as






16. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes






17. Physical vs. social interaction






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






19. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have






20. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'






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






22. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism






23. 1) development is more continues than stage-like 2) changing procedures a little bit changes results a lot 3) methods culturally biased

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24. Foot in the door vs door in the face

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25. Intended to reflect what you have already learned






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






27. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity






28. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures






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






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






31. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]






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






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






34. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding






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






36. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety






37. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality






38. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'






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






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






41. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)






42. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause






43. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase






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






45. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above






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






47. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them






48. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse






49. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting






50. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction