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Elementary Psychology
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1. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Causes for Phobias
Ego
Things that can influence IQ scores
Kelley's Covariation Model
2. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Verbal Comprehension
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Behavior: Extinction Method
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
3. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
conservation
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
secure attachment
To Reduce Dissonance...
4. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
secure attachment
Cultural Deviance
Things that can influence IQ scores
Emotional Distress
5. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
Criteria for Abnormal
Rosenhan Experiment
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Phobia
6. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Stress as a Transaction
Stereotype
Personality
Emotional Distress
7. Sexually desire their mother
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
object permanence
insecure-anxious attachment
oedipus complex
8. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Stressors
anxiety
Identity vs Role Confusion
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
9. 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
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
anal stage
Biopsychosocial Model
10. Change behavior - change attitude
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Milgrams Explanations
Cultural Deviance
To Reduce Dissonance...
11. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
General Adaptation Syndrome
preoperational
Causes of Schizophrenia
Fundamental Attribution Error
12. 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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13. 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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14. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
Dysfunction
Ego
Causes for Phobias
To Reduce Dissonance...
15. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Superego
Obedience
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Biopsychosocial Model
16. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Basic Cognitive Therapy
HPA axis
Stereotype
oral stage
17. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Eustress
Conformity
Identity vs Role Confusion
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
18. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Evolutionary Psych
disorganized attachment
Factors that predict relationship success
GAD Treatments
19. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Anxiety Disorder
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Emotional Distress
20. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
Superego
lexical hypothesis
The Big Five
Psychopathology
21. 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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22. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
Stress as a Transaction
Satisfaction
insecure-anxious attachment
Stanford Prison Study
23. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
oral stage
External Attribution
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Health Psychology
24. Maladaptive behavior - interferes with ability to function - impairment alone is not enough (laziness)
Dysfunction
Asch study
boy phallic stage
Anxiety Disorder
25. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
conservation
Coping Strategies for Stress
Harlow's Experiment
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
26. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Stress as a Response
formal operational
disorganized attachment
Perceptual Organization
27. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Generativity vs Stagnation
Id
oral stage
castration complex
28. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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29. 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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30. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Stressors
Causes for Phobias
Factors that predict relationship success
HPA axis
31. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
Stages of Appraisal
secure attachment
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
sensorimotor
32. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
Prejudice
Rosenhan Experiment
Behavior Therapy
Private Conformity
33. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Stressors as Stimuli
Autonomy vs Doubt
genital stage
achievement test
34. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
latency stage
Fundamental Attribution Error
The Big Five
zone of proximal development
35. Pleasure from anus - successful toilet training=passage through
zone of proximal development
anal stage
The Big Five
Social Psychology
36. Beliefs about the object
Cattell's Source Traits
TriPartite Model: Cognition
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Processing Speed
37. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Behavior Therapy
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Dependence
Evolutionary Psych
38. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety
disorganized attachment
Behavior: Extinction Method
Rosenhan Experiment
Integrity vs Despair
39. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
preoperational
Cooperation
Dependence
Clinical Psychology
40. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
boy phallic stage
concrete operational
Token Economy
External Attribution
41. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Dysfunction
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Fundamental Attribution Error
Fundamental Attribution Error
42. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
Social Psychology
Dependence
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
difference between piaget and vygotsky
43. 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
Fundamental Attribution Error
aptitude test
Stanford Prison Study
TriPartite Model: Behavior
44. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
Causes for Phobias
Personality
Social Psychology
zone of proximal development
45. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
TAT
disorganized attachment
phallic stage
internalization
46. 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
anxiety
Sheridan & King Study
Stress as a Response
aptitude test
47. Objects are remembered even when out of sight
Stress as a Response
object permanence
boy phallic stage
Superego
48. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
oral stage
Social Roles
49. Detachment from reality - often associated with delusions - hallucinations - and disorganized thoughts - 'split-mind'
Stanford Prison Study
Schizophrenia
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Realistic Conflict
50. Ask for a small favor first - followed up with a larger request - if you say yes once - you are more likely to say yes later
Foot in the Door
object permanence
latency stage
Id
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