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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]






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






3. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts






4. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group






5. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm






6. Most common/successful intelligence test






7. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy






8. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort

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9. Built a mock prison at Stanford and paid students to play the roles of prisons and guards - Results: power of social roles took over - promotes brutality






10. Inconsistent behavior/confused






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






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






13. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity






14. 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






15. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]






16. Predisposition to act - actions in the past






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






18. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)






19. 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






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






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






23. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation






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






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






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






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






28. Foot in the door vs door in the face

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29. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something






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






31. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]






32. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem






33. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger






34. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation






35. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events






36. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors






37. 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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38. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal






39. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]






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






41. 1. Primary: must perceive that event is a threat to personal goals 2. Secondary: must conclude that resources to meet demands of event are unavailable






42. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic






43. Study of the mental illness of the brain






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






45. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity






46. Foot in the door vs door in the face

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47. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy






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






49. Genetic component & environmental conditioning






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