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Elementary Psychology
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1. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Coping Strategies for Stress
conservation
Superego
insecure-anxious attachment
2. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
Cognitive Dissonance
Superego
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
insecure-avoidant attachment
3. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
TriPartite Model: Behavior
egocentrism
Dependence
4. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Stages of Appraisal
Attributions
Personality
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
5. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Internalized Standard
Working Memory
projective tests
6. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
Behavior Therapy
Verbal Comprehension
Factors that predict relationship success
The Big Five
7. Ask for a large favor first - followed up with something much smaller - if you say no - you may feel guilty and may say yes to a more reasonable request
General Adaptation Syndrome
Intimacy vs Isolation
Door in the Face
Prejudice
8. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Behavior Therapy
Psychopathology
Criteria for Abnormal
TriPartite Model: Cognition
9. Intended to reflect what you have already learned
Stress as a Transaction
Integrity vs Despair
achievement test
oedipus complex
10. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Superego
Distress
attachment
Stress as a Response
11. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
object permanence
Attributions
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
12. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Stressors as Stimuli
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Behavior: Extinction Method
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
13. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
Interdependence Theory
boy phallic stage
Identity vs Role Confusion
object permanence
14. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
electra complex
Initiative vs Guilt
Conformity
Coping Strategies for Stress
15. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Trust vs Mistrust
Door in the Face
Social Identity
Prejudice
16. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Discrimination
Sheridan & King Study
Autonomy vs Doubt
Stereotype
17. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
Industry vs Inferiority
Prejudice
preoperational
Factors that predict relationship success
18. Study of the mental illness of the brain
Psychopathology
Processing Speed
Criteria for Abnormal
TriPartite Model: Cognition
19. Physical vs. social interaction
Cognitive Therapy
difference between piaget and vygotsky
disorganized attachment
Clinical Psychology
20. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
preoperational
Initiative vs Guilt
Trust vs Mistrust
Internal Attribution
21. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Stress
Discrimination
Cooperation
latency stage
22. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
Rational Emotive Therapy
Emotional Distress
lexical hypothesis
TAT
23. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Industry vs Inferiority
Personality
24. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
Private Conformity
Obedience
DSM-IV-TR
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
25. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
oral stage
Internal Attribution
Fundamental Attribution Error
Things that can influence IQ scores
26. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Psychopathology
Intimacy vs Isolation
projective tests
Marucha Study
27. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Foot in the Door
Cattell's Source Traits
Fundamental Attribution Error
28. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
The Big Five
Satisfaction
Public Conformity
Behavior Therapy
29. 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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30. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Fundamental Attribution Error
Attributions
TriPartite Model: Affect
conservation
31. 1. covariate: look for cause of behavior 2. consistency: does this pairing always occur? 3. distinctiveness: is this behavior rare in terms of frequency 4. consensus: do other people react the same way?
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32. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Theory of Parental Investment
disorganized attachment
Emotional Distress
Private Conformity
33. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Private Conformity
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
TAT
electra complex
34. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
DSM-IV-TR
TAT
disorganized attachment
insecure-anxious attachment
35. Change behavior - change attitude
Harlow's Experiment
To Reduce Dissonance...
achievement test
Causes for Phobias
36. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
TAT
Phobia Treatments
Flynn Effect
formal operational
37. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
Health Psychology
Biopsychosocial Model
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Transformation of Motivation
38. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Phobia
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
39. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Phobia Treatments
Statistical Deviance
Marucha Study
Cattell's Source Traits
40. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Cognitive Therapy
Id
Verbal Comprehension
Integrity vs Despair
41. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Perceptual Organization
castration complex
Social Roles
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
42. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
Identity vs Role Confusion
Realistic Conflict
Statistical Deviance
Attributions
43. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Intimacy vs Isolation
Factors that predict relationship success
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Evolutionary Psych
44. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Asch study
Intimacy vs Isolation
Stanford Prison Study
Shaping
45. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Stressors
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cialdini's Compliance
46. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
Integrity vs Despair
Conformity
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Causes of Schizophrenia
47. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Superego
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Anxiety Disorder
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
48. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
concrete operational
Processing Speed
Causes for Phobias
Satisfaction
49. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
Social Psychology
castration complex
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
zone of proximal development
50. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Stereotype
Foot in the Door
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Cognitive Therapy