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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses
Behavior: Extinction Method
sensorimotor
Asch study
disorganized attachment
2. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Initiative vs Guilt
TriPartite Model: Affect
zone of proximal development
3. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Things that can influence IQ scores
Psychosis
Phobia Treatments
castration complex
4. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Social Identity
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Token Economy
difference between piaget and vygotsky
5. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Biopsychosocial Model
Attributions
Rational Emotive Therapy
insecure-avoidant attachment
6. 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?
Verbal Comprehension
Industry vs Inferiority
Statistical Deviance
Obedience
7. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Stages of Appraisal
Realistic Conflict
Id
Flynn Effect
8. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
concrete operational
Identity vs Role Confusion
phallic stage
9. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
Obedience
Interdependence Theory
Statistical Deviance
difference between piaget and vygotsky
10. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
Sheridan & King Study
Shaping
Eustress
Coping Strategies for Stress
11. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Token Economy
Discrimination
attachment
Biopsychosocial Model
12. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Id
GAD Treatments
Processing Speed
Flynn Effect
13. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Transformation of Motivation
Internal Attribution
Satisfaction
Factors that predict relationship success
14. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world
Causes for Phobias
phallic stage
Flynn Effect
Causes of Schizophrenia
15. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
Behavior: Extinction Method
Prejudice
Superego
Stress
16. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Identity vs Role Confusion
Cognitive Dissonance
Ecclectic Therapists
To Reduce Dissonance...
17. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
insecure-anxious attachment
Realistic Conflict
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
18. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
aptitude test
Causes for Phobias
Behavior: Extinction Method
Door in the Face
19. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Social Identity
20. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Dependence
genital stage
Working Memory
Causes of Schizophrenia
21. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
Rational Emotive Therapy
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
MMPI
castration complex
22. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Initiative vs Guilt
concrete operational
Normative Influence
electra complex
23. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Cialdini's Compliance
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Generativity vs Stagnation
Fundamental Attribution Error
24. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Attributions
preoperational
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Causes of Schizophrenia
25. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Conformity
WAIS
Fundamental Attribution Error
Trust vs Mistrust
26. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
oral stage
HPA axis
Autonomy vs Doubt
27. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
Social Identity
Behavior Therapy
Verbal Comprehension
formal operational
28. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Interdependence Theory
zone of proximal development
Id
Harlow's Experiment
29. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
lexical hypothesis
TAT
Cognitive Dissonance
Basic Cognitive Therapy
30. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person
Satisfaction
Interdependence Theory
Health Psychology
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
31. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
genital stage
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Obedience
32. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
Personality
Ecclectic Therapists
Transformation of Motivation
Stressors
33. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
object permanence
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Attributions
34. 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?
Verbal Comprehension
Private Conformity
Discrimination
Stress as a Transaction
35. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
object permanence
Ecclectic Therapists
DSM-IV-TR
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
36. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
oedipus complex
Clinical Psychology
disorganized attachment
Attitude
37. Sexually desire their mother
Psychosis
insecure-avoidant attachment
Door in the Face
oedipus complex
38. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Phobia Treatments
Private Conformity
Stress as a Transaction
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
39. 1. Problem Focused: tackle the stressor head on - usually occurs when optimistic and believe we can achieve our goals 2. Emotion Focused: try to place a more positive outlook on emotions - engage in behaviors to reduce painful emotions
Identity vs Role Confusion
Coping Strategies for Stress
zone of proximal development
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
40. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
TriPartite Model: Behavior
anal stage
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Stages of Appraisal
41. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
zone of proximal development
projective tests
Rational Emotive Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
42. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
aptitude test
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
internalization
Conformity
43. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Trait Theory
Stanley Milgram Study
Cialdini's Compliance
Asch study
44. Physical vs. social interaction
difference between piaget and vygotsky
conservation
Kelley's Covariation Model
Behavior: Extinction Method
45. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
lexical hypothesis
DSM Axes
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Prejudice
46. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
Behavior: Extinction Method
External Attribution
Stressors
Stress as a Response
47. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Biopsychosocial Model
Evolutionary Psych
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
achievement test
48. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Integrity vs Despair
Factors that predict relationship success
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
To Reduce Dissonance...
49. 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
Stressors as Stimuli
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
insecure-anxious attachment
To Reduce Dissonance...
50. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Informational Influence
Phobia Treatments
egocentrism
Autonomy vs Doubt