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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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1. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]






2. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior






3. Beliefs about the object






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






5. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives






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






7. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles






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






9. 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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10. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others






11. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind






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






13. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger






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






15. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause






16. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods






17. No response to leaving or returning






18. 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






19. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others






20. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship






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






22. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams






23. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]






24. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges






25. Change behavior - change attitude






26. 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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27. Cannot see things from another persons perspective






28. 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






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






30. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse






31. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming






32. Focus on the outcome of being in a situation that causes stress - stress is a physiological response Ex: fight or flight vs General Adaptation Syndrome






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






34. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]






35. Describes prolonged stress response in three stages 1. Alarm: fight or flight 2. Resistance: body uses resources to resist stress 3. Exhaustion: physiological response is depleted - become susceptible to illness/disease






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






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






38. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group






39. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner






40. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause






41. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior






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






43. 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






44. Change behavior - change attitude






45. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave






46. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior






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






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






49. Study of the mental illness of the brain






50. Line judgement task with 1 participant - 6 confederates - bogus confederate responses