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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
External Attribution
Stress as a Response
electra complex
Asch study
2. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
Things that can influence IQ scores
Social Psychology
Interdependence Theory
Theory of Parental Investment
3. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group
Shaping
boy phallic stage
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
latency stage
4. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
TAT
Evolutionary Psych
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
egocentrism
5. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
Prejudice
Trust vs Mistrust
Schizophrenia
Attributions
6. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Integrity vs Despair
External Attribution
Basic Cognitive Therapy
7. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Ecclectic Therapists
Stressors
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Social Identity
8. 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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9. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Harlow's Experiment
Stress as a Transaction
anxiety
10. Infrequent & uncommon - rarity alone is not enough - many mental disorders are not really rare (Depression)
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Obedience
Criteria for Abnormal
Statistical Deviance
11. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
phallic stage
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Autonomy vs Doubt
Basic Cognitive Therapy
12. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Dysfunction
anxiety
TriPartite Model: Behavior
13. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
preoperational
Phobia Treatments
Private Conformity
Behavior Therapy
14. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Cognitive Therapy
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
WAIS
TAT
15. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level (CL) - compared to TV - family - friends - past partners - etc
boy phallic stage
Verbal Comprehension
Satisfaction
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
16. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Evolutionary Psych
Causes for Phobias
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
boy phallic stage
17. 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
Door in the Face
Stanley Milgram Study
Personality
Ego
18. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Superego
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Distress
Integrity vs Despair
19. 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
Shaping
Working Memory
Rational Emotive Therapy
Schizophrenia
20. First developed to treat depression - attempts to remove irrational thoughts/beliefs that were thought to be the cause of the problem
Evolutionary Psych
Cognitive Therapy
Foot in the Door
Door in the Face
21. 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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22. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Phobia Treatments
Stressors
Marucha Study
Freud's Background Info
23. Change behavior - change attitude
Theory of Parental Investment
To Reduce Dissonance...
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
attachment
24. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
Stages of Appraisal
To Reduce Dissonance...
Prejudice
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
25. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
Evolutionary Psych
anxiety
General Adaptation Syndrome
Milgrams Explanations
26. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
Trust vs Mistrust
Conformity
Stages of Appraisal
boy phallic stage
27. Beliefs about the object
Anxiety Disorder
Clinical Psychology
boy phallic stage
TriPartite Model: Cognition
28. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Discrimination
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Distress
Evolutionary Psych
29. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Normative Influence
Cultural Deviance
anxiety
Generativity vs Stagnation
30. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
Industry vs Inferiority
insecure-anxious attachment
Asch study
oral stage
31. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process
TriPartite Model: Affect
Initiative vs Guilt
Internalized Standard
latency stage
32. Worry that father will cut their penis off
Private Conformity
castration complex
Perceptual Organization
zone of proximal development
33. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
oral stage
DSM-IV-TR
Attributions
latency stage
34. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
Autonomy vs Doubt
To Reduce Dissonance...
Stress as a Response
Internal Attribution
35. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Stanford Prison Study
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
genital stage
36. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Generativity vs Stagnation
Stanford Prison Study
Causes of Schizophrenia
37. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
internalization
Attributions
Social Roles
Public Conformity
38. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Realistic Conflict
Eustress
Working Memory
Private Conformity
39. 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)
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
sensorimotor
Marucha Study
aptitude test
40. Prior testing - medication - educational history - significant medical events
Cialdini's Compliance
MMPI
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Things that can influence IQ scores
41. Will normal - average people perform evil acts simply because an authority figure asks them to do so - Ex: voltage shocks up to lethal amount
Stanley Milgram Study
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Causes of Schizophrenia
Cooperation
42. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Dependence
Coping Strategies for Stress
phallic stage
43. Physical vs. social interaction
insecure-avoidant attachment
Behavior Therapy
WAIS
difference between piaget and vygotsky
44. 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
Fundamental Attribution Error
Criteria for Abnormal
Ego
General Adaptation Syndrome
45. 1) Loss of responsibility for teachers 2) situational obligation 3) science as a legit institution
aptitude test
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Flynn Effect
Milgrams Explanations
46. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Stress
anal stage
Integrity vs Despair
47. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Obedience
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
insecure-anxious attachment
Marucha Study
48. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
Shaping
Behavior Therapy
Rational Emotive Therapy
Ecclectic Therapists
49. Mediator between Id & superego - mostly conscious and preconscious - guided by reality principal - uses defense mechanisms
Ego
Social Psychology
Cooperation
Stressors as Stimuli
50. 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
projective tests
egocentrism
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
General Adaptation Syndrome