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Elementary Psychology
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1. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Eustress
Informational Influence
insecure-anxious attachment
Behavior: Extinction Method
2. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
Distress
Personality
Asch study
Rational Emotive Therapy
3. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
electra complex
Ecclectic Therapists
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Perceptual Organization
4. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Attitude
Conformity
General Adaptation Syndrome
5. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Social Psychology
TriPartite Model: Affect
Stanford Prison Study
Stereotype
6. 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
7. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Normative Influence
WAIS
Distress
Autonomy vs Doubt
8. Dental students were given a puncture wound in their mouth and measure how long it would heal - Results: wounds took longer to heal during exams than during the summer (stress)
attachment
genital stage
Marucha Study
Distress
9. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Realistic Conflict
Behavior: Extinction Method
Satisfaction
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
10. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
DSM-IV-TR
phallic stage
Biopsychosocial Model
Coping Strategies for Stress
11. 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
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Door in the Face
anal stage
Processing Speed
12. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
disorganized attachment
Freud's Background Info
attachment
Basic Cognitive Therapy
13. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Rosenhan Experiment
Criteria for Abnormal
Eustress
External Attribution
14. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
lexical hypothesis
Public Conformity
Shaping
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
15. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Attributions
Stanley Milgram Study
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Social Identity
16. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Personality
Asch study
insecure-anxious attachment
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
17. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
latency stage
Rational Emotive Therapy
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Social Identity
18. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Intimacy vs Isolation
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Clinical Psychology
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
19. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
TAT
Conformity
Cognitive Dissonance
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
20. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Prejudice
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Phobia Treatments
Anxiety Disorder
21. Dental students were given a puncture wound in their mouth and measure how long it would heal - Results: wounds took longer to heal during exams than during the summer (stress)
zone of proximal development
Schizophrenia
Phobia
Marucha Study
22. 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
Identity vs Role Confusion
Stanford Prison Study
Shaping
Phobia Treatments
23. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Initiative vs Guilt
Social Roles
Social Psychology
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
24. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
sensorimotor
TriPartite Model: Affect
MMPI
Rosenhan Experiment
25. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
boy phallic stage
Internal Attribution
lexical hypothesis
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
26. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
genital stage
Eustress
Attributions
object permanence
27. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
formal operational
Id
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
28. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
DSM Axes
Id
Private Conformity
sensorimotor
29. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
genital stage
Milgrams Explanations
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Clinical Psychology
30. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
girl phallic stage
Trait Theory
Ego
HPA axis
31. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Discrimination
Prejudice
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
32. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
Social Psychology
Industry vs Inferiority
sensorimotor
Satisfaction
33. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
anxiety
Ego
Intimacy vs Isolation
Treatment for Schizophrenia
34. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
Emotional Distress
Cognitive Therapy
Satisfaction
Evolutionary Psych
35. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Trait Theory
Integrity vs Despair
Cialdini's Compliance
Informational Influence
36. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
General Adaptation Syndrome
Processing Speed
Stress as a Response
37. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Informational Influence
Stress as a Transaction
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
38. Sexually desire their mother
Health Psychology
oedipus complex
Social Psychology
object permanence
39. Focus on identifying different types of events that are considered stressful by most people - Ex: Catastrophic Events - Major Life Events - Daily Hassles
Stressors as Stimuli
Evolutionary Psych
Superego
Eustress
40. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Fundamental Attribution Error
Perceptual Organization
Prejudice
41. Change behavior - change attitude
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
To Reduce Dissonance...
Stressors
Causes for Phobias
42. 1) development is more continues than stage-like 2) changing procedures a little bit changes results a lot 3) methods culturally biased
43. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Emotional Distress
Causes for Phobias
Identity vs Role Confusion
Causes of Schizophrenia
44. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Stress
oedipus complex
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
45. Physical vs. social interaction
DSM Axes
difference between piaget and vygotsky
anal stage
Foot in the Door
46. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Treatment for Schizophrenia
To Reduce Dissonance...
Things that can influence IQ scores
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
47. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
Schizophrenia
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
phallic stage
oedipus complex
48. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Rosenhan Experiment
DSM-IV-TR
Basic Cognitive Therapy
49. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Satisfaction
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Sheridan & King Study
preoperational
50. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
latency stage
GAD Treatments
Token Economy
Stressors as Stimuli