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Elementary Psychology
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1. 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
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
WAIS
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
2. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Trait Theory
genital stage
Distress
3. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
Working Memory
Asch study
Causes of Schizophrenia
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
4. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Foot in the Door
Obedience
Phobia
Processing Speed
5. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Shaping
oedipus complex
Behavior: Extinction Method
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
6. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
Conformity
Things that can influence IQ scores
Causes of Schizophrenia
attachment
7. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Causes of Schizophrenia
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
oral stage
attachment
8. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Rational Emotive Therapy
disorganized attachment
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Door in the Face
9. Digit span: repeat a set of numbers backwards - arithmetic: If Jessica has 3 packs of gum with 4 packs each - how many sticks will she have for herself if she gives 2 sticks each to 3 friends
Statistical Deviance
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Working Memory
object permanence
10. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
MMPI
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
latency stage
attachment
11. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
phallic stage
Public Conformity
anxiety
Social Identity
12. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
Shaping
Theory of Parental Investment
sensorimotor
Perceptual Organization
13. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
aptitude test
Superego
Clinical Psychology
Statistical Deviance
14. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
preoperational
Behavior: Extinction Method
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Social Psychology
15. 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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16. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
conservation
secure attachment
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Attributions
17. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
anal stage
TAT
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
18. Measurable personality features that can indicate behavior
Trait Theory
Private Conformity
Generativity vs Stagnation
Phobia
19. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
attachment
DSM-IV-TR
Foot in the Door
Eustress
20. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
formal operational
TAT
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Marucha Study
21. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
achievement test
Cialdini's Compliance
Working Memory
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
22. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group
Behavior: Extinction Method
Informational Influence
internalization
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
23. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Obedience
conservation
Cooperation
24. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
electra complex
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Normative Influence
Pygmalion effect
25. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Working Memory
Phobia Treatments
Generativity vs Stagnation
26. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Pygmalion effect
Statistical Deviance
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Initiative vs Guilt
27. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
Stereotype
Shaping
sensorimotor
TriPartite Model: Behavior
28. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Obedience
Conformity
Foot in the Door
Rational Emotive Therapy
29. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Things that can influence IQ scores
Trust vs Mistrust
Verbal Comprehension
Health Psychology
30. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
Perceptual Organization
Personality
aptitude test
Stereotype
31. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Perceptual Organization
Token Economy
Private Conformity
concrete operational
32. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
oedipus complex
Rosenhan Experiment
Anxiety Disorder
Attitude
33. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
insecure-anxious attachment
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Health Psychology
object permanence
34. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
The Big Five
Flynn Effect
Superego
GAD Treatments
35. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
object permanence
WAIS
Dysfunction
Discrimination
36. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
Stages of Appraisal
phallic stage
genital stage
Internal Attribution
37. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
Id
Informational Influence
Cultural Deviance
anal stage
38. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
Freud's Background Info
electra complex
lexical hypothesis
Rational Emotive Therapy
39. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Rosenhan Experiment
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
aptitude test
40. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Ego
Stereotype
Stanley Milgram Study
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
41. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Autonomy vs Doubt
Emotional Distress
Behavior Therapy
42. Foot in the door vs door in the face
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43. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
preoperational
Working Memory
GAD Treatments
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
44. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
anxiety
Realistic Conflict
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
45. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
Rational Emotive Therapy
Attributions
Interdependence Theory
Personality
46. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
Social Roles
anal stage
Prejudice
TriPartite Model: Affect
47. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
aptitude test
Eustress
electra complex
oedipus complex
48. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Flynn Effect
Conformity
Token Economy
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
49. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Private Conformity
Rational Emotive Therapy
Ecclectic Therapists
50. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
Criteria for Abnormal
Normative Influence
Stress as a Transaction
Fundamental Attribution Error