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Elementary Psychology
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1. + Focus on thoughts as cause of behavior - leads us to lasting change in behavior - harder to change thoughts than behavior - time consuming
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Stanley Milgram Study
2. Worry that father will cut their penis off
Door in the Face
electra complex
castration complex
Behavior: Extinction Method
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
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Schizophrenia
The Big Five
egocentrism
4. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
internalization
Door in the Face
Psychosis
5. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Personality
HPA axis
Discrimination
Causes for Phobias
6. 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
Stanley Milgram Study
Prejudice
preoperational
7. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
Trust vs Mistrust
TAT
attachment
Token Economy
8. 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
Stanford Prison Study
electra complex
Informational Influence
Internal Attribution
9. 1. Primary: must perceive that event is a threat to personal goals 2. Secondary: must conclude that resources to meet demands of event are unavailable
oral stage
Initiative vs Guilt
Stages of Appraisal
Social Identity
10. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Cialdini's Compliance
Psychopathology
Identity vs Role Confusion
Marucha Study
11. 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
anxiety
Initiative vs Guilt
Working Memory
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
12. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Integrity vs Despair
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
projective tests
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
13. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
aptitude test
Intimacy vs Isolation
Private Conformity
Social Identity
14. Interpret ambiguous items where answers are meaningful - Ex: Rorschach Inkblots
Kelley's Covariation Model
projective tests
oral stage
Stages of Appraisal
15. Emotions about the object
attachment
TriPartite Model: Affect
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
genital stage
16. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Distress
Stages of Appraisal
Ecclectic Therapists
Treatment for Schizophrenia
17. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Foot in the Door
Public Conformity
Internal Attribution
Freud's Background Info
18. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Obedience
Public Conformity
Harlow's Experiment
Clinical Psychology
19. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
concrete operational
Stereotype
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Cognitive Dissonance
20. 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
TriPartite Model: Affect
oral stage
Door in the Face
External Attribution
21. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Shaping
Trait Theory
Fundamental Attribution Error
Stages of Appraisal
22. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
Foot in the Door
Sheridan & King Study
Social Psychology
Discrimination
23. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Initiative vs Guilt
Clinical Psychology
zone of proximal development
Ecclectic Therapists
24. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Informational Influence
girl phallic stage
Stress as a Response
TriPartite Model: Cognition
25. Puberty & on - pleasure from sexual intercourse
internalization
Cognitive Therapy
Industry vs Inferiority
genital stage
26. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
Eustress
Generativity vs Stagnation
Dysfunction
preoperational
27. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
GAD Treatments
MMPI
Industry vs Inferiority
Dependence
28. Advantages: clear expectations & goals - fast & cheap - disadvantages: no underlying thoughts revealed
internalization
Evolutionary Psych
sensorimotor
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
29. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Generativity vs Stagnation
External Attribution
projective tests
sensorimotor
30. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
Anxiety Disorder
Door in the Face
Integrity vs Despair
oral stage
31. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Factors that predict relationship success
lexical hypothesis
Superego
Dependence
32. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Behavior: Extinction Method
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
Social Roles
33. No response to leaving or returning
insecure-avoidant attachment
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Flynn Effect
Verbal Comprehension
34. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship
Transformation of Motivation
Fundamental Attribution Error
Private Conformity
Stressors
35. 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)
Marucha Study
DSM Axes
projective tests
Normative Influence
36. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
secure attachment
electra complex
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Behavior: Extinction Method
37. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group
Stress as a Transaction
Stress as a Response
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Door in the Face
38. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
attachment
latency stage
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Stereotype
39. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Pygmalion effect
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Fundamental Attribution Error
Flynn Effect
40. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
Initiative vs Guilt
Stress
boy phallic stage
TAT
41. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Verbal Comprehension
aptitude test
Dependence
42. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction
egocentrism
Transformation of Motivation
Criteria for Abnormal
phallic stage
43. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting
Prejudice
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Kelley's Covariation Model
Pygmalion effect
44. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
Pygmalion effect
Private Conformity
Criteria for Abnormal
Factors that predict relationship success
45. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
HPA axis
Attributions
Normative Influence
Harlow's Experiment
46. 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
External Attribution
Working Memory
Ecclectic Therapists
disorganized attachment
47. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Public Conformity
Door in the Face
The Big Five
Discrimination
48. Private acceptance of social norms (internal)
oral stage
Private Conformity
Rational Emotive Therapy
Autonomy vs Doubt
49. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Pygmalion effect
Stress as a Transaction
Behavior Therapy
Things that can influence IQ scores
50. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Trust vs Mistrust
Phobia
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Criticisms of Attraction Theory