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Elementary Psychology
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1. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Causes for Phobias
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
disorganized attachment
Cattell's Source Traits
2. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Integrity vs Despair
Criteria for Abnormal
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Freud's Background Info
3. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Harlow's Experiment
Door in the Face
Token Economy
Emotional Distress
4. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation
Stress as a Transaction
Working Memory
Stress as a Response
Phobia
5. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Identity vs Role Confusion
Generativity vs Stagnation
Door in the Face
Trait Theory
6. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
Processing Speed
Obedience
Psychopathology
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
7. 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
formal operational
Door in the Face
Distress
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
8. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
egocentrism
Realistic Conflict
WAIS
9. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
HPA axis
internalization
projective tests
Clinical Psychology
10. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
MMPI
Shaping
Stressors as Stimuli
Social Psychology
11. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
Realistic Conflict
Rosenhan Experiment
TAT
Pygmalion effect
12. 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
HPA axis
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Cialdini's Compliance
13. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
HPA axis
disorganized attachment
Personality
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
14. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
electra complex
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Realistic Conflict
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
15. 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
MMPI
Attributions
girl phallic stage
16. 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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17. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Clinical Psychology
Cognitive Dissonance
Criteria for Abnormal
Cultural Deviance
18. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
Social Identity
Generativity vs Stagnation
Freud's Background Info
TriPartite Model: Behavior
19. Scientific study of the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of individuals as they are shaped by the actual - implied - or imagined presence of others
Rational Emotive Therapy
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
oedipus complex
Social Psychology
20. Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or to avoid disapproval from others
Normative Influence
Ego
Cattell's Source Traits
Internal Attribution
21. Completely unconscious - home of sex & aggression instincts - guided by pleasure principal - comes out in dreams
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Kelley's Covariation Model
Id
Theory of Parental Investment
22. Logical thinking - develop conservation - [Piaget]
Cooperation
insecure-anxious attachment
Rational Emotive Therapy
concrete operational
23. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Flynn Effect
Stressors
anal stage
Phobia Treatments
24. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
Intimacy vs Isolation
TAT
Kelley's Covariation Model
Private Conformity
25. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Health Psychology
aptitude test
zone of proximal development
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
26. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
preoperational
Emotional Distress
Cooperation
Cognitive Dissonance
27. Beliefs about the object
TriPartite Model: Cognition
egocentrism
Superego
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
28. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Attitude
Dysfunction
DSM-IV-TR
29. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
Working Memory
Identity vs Role Confusion
Stanford Prison Study
attachment
30. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior
Ego
lexical hypothesis
Verbal Comprehension
Health Psychology
31. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
aptitude test
secure attachment
Trust vs Mistrust
concrete operational
32. Therapists that combine all of the perspectives in their work
insecure-anxious attachment
achievement test
Ecclectic Therapists
Distress
33. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Emotional Distress
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Cognitive Dissonance
General Adaptation Syndrome
34. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
Normative Influence
Ego
Public Conformity
latency stage
35. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Factors that predict relationship success
Biopsychosocial Model
secure attachment
Generativity vs Stagnation
36. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Causes of Schizophrenia
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
HPA axis
girl phallic stage
37. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Processing Speed
Causes for Phobias
difference between piaget and vygotsky
38. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Dysfunction
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Fundamental Attribution Error
Rosenhan Experiment
39. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father
DSM Axes
Kelley's Covariation Model
oedipus complex
boy phallic stage
40. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]
Stressors
Autonomy vs Doubt
attachment
Industry vs Inferiority
41. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Phobia
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Rosenhan Experiment
DSM-IV-TR
42. 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
Statistical Deviance
Stages of Appraisal
Stress as a Transaction
insecure-avoidant attachment
43. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Fundamental Attribution Error
Cooperation
anal stage
Autonomy vs Doubt
44. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat
Initiative vs Guilt
Phobia Treatments
Phobia
Eustress
45. Most common/successful intelligence test
WAIS
Internalized Standard
Interdependence Theory
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
46. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Identity vs Role Confusion
Informational Influence
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
47. Drugs:tranquilizers (Xanax - Valium) - psychotherapy: find repressed fear - cognitive: identify illogical thoughts
GAD Treatments
Public Conformity
Phobia
Behavior Therapy
48. Penis envy - blame mother for making them girls - desire for 'false penis' and childbirth
Evolutionary Psych
MMPI
girl phallic stage
Biopsychosocial Model
49. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Autonomy vs Doubt
Normative Influence
Perceptual Organization
Attributions
50. 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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