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Elementary Psychology
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1. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
anxiety
Autonomy vs Doubt
Intimacy vs Isolation
Clinical Psychology
2. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution
Perceptual Organization
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Milgrams Explanations
Social Roles
3. 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
Evolutionary Psych
Industry vs Inferiority
Phobia Treatments
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
4. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
General Adaptation Syndrome
Anxiety Disorder
Evolutionary Psych
Trait Theory
5. Should I make decisions on my own - or listen to others? [childhood]
formal operational
To Reduce Dissonance...
Initiative vs Guilt
conservation
6. 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
Industry vs Inferiority
Door in the Face
Things that can influence IQ scores
Kelley's Covariation Model
7. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Industry vs Inferiority
Internalized Standard
latency stage
Treatment for Schizophrenia
8. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
HPA axis
Social Identity
Perceptual Organization
9. Worry that father will cut their penis off
Stress
castration complex
Stanford Prison Study
TriPartite Model: Cognition
10. Chronic/excessive worry - unrealistic fears - physical stress - tense - jumpy - can't be attributed to one source
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Phobia Treatments
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
11. Study of the mental illness of the brain
latency stage
General Adaptation Syndrome
Psychopathology
Internalized Standard
12. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Theory of Parental Investment
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
13. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Criteria for Abnormal
DSM-IV-TR
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
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Ego
Treatment for Schizophrenia
15. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
disorganized attachment
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Fundamental Attribution Error
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
16. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
Cognitive Therapy
Eustress
projective tests
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
17. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
girl phallic stage
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
difference between piaget and vygotsky
18. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Cooperation
Health Psychology
Autonomy vs Doubt
19. 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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20. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
Token Economy
HPA axis
oral stage
TriPartite Model: Behavior
21. Beliefs about the object
Dependence
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Perceptual Organization
secure attachment
22. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
phallic stage
oedipus complex
23. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Cognitive Therapy
Behavior Therapy
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
MMPI
24. Physical vs. social interaction
DSM-IV-TR
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Trust vs Mistrust
Kelley's Covariation Model
25. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
anal stage
Prejudice
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Criteria for Abnormal
26. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Cialdini's Compliance
Phobia
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Attitude
27. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Normative Influence
Stereotype
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Pygmalion effect
28. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Stanley Milgram Study
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Psychosis
29. 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
Stanford Prison Study
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Working Memory
30. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Psychopathology
Clinical Psychology
Realistic Conflict
castration complex
31. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Social Roles
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Eustress
32. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Interdependence Theory
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
secure attachment
Stress
33. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Stress as a Response
Industry vs Inferiority
DSM Axes
conservation
34. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
The Big Five
Coping Strategies for Stress
Coping Strategies for Stress
Theory of Parental Investment
35. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Personality
anxiety
Fundamental Attribution Error
TriPartite Model: Affect
36. Against culture norms - behavior often paired with societal disapproval - disapproval is not enough (sexism - racism)
Psychopathology
zone of proximal development
Cultural Deviance
Psychosis
37. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Biopsychosocial Model
Trust vs Mistrust
Stanley Milgram Study
Kelley's Covariation Model
38. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
sensorimotor
Processing Speed
Sheridan & King Study
castration complex
39. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Shaping
Sheridan & King Study
WAIS
Social Identity
40. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Phobia
WAIS
electra complex
Attributions
41. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Flynn Effect
Intimacy vs Isolation
42. Emotions about the object
TriPartite Model: Affect
Token Economy
egocentrism
insecure-avoidant attachment
43. Resolution of phallic stage conflicts that lead to extended break until puberty
Emotional Distress
Rosenhan Experiment
latency stage
TAT
44. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
oral stage
Health Psychology
Personality
Asch study
45. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Evolutionary Psych
insecure-avoidant attachment
Discrimination
Integrity vs Despair
46. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
TAT
Transformation of Motivation
Evolutionary Psych
TriPartite Model: Affect
47. 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
Stages of Appraisal
Coping Strategies for Stress
Shaping
Stress as a Response
48. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Stress
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Dependence
latency stage
49. 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
Cooperation
Coping Strategies for Stress
TriPartite Model: Affect
object permanence
50. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
genital stage
Causes for Phobias
internalization
object permanence