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Elementary Psychology

Subject : psychology
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1. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute






2. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill






3. Good stressor that motivates the individual to make necessary changes - Ex: being too hot motivates you to take off coat






4. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives






5. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism






6. Sexually desire their mother






7. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave






8. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation






9. No response to leaving or returning






10. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]






11. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]






12. Give up short-term - selfish desires for the long-term good of the relationship






13. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors






14. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal






15. 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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16. Study of the relationship between mind and boy - health and illness behavior






17. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others






18. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver






19. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm






20. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]






21. Partners outcomes are effected by each other - if one person is unhappy - so is the other person






22. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause






23. Product of the interaction between individuals and their environment - subjective experience that depends on appraisal of situation






24. Objects are remembered even when out of sight






25. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]






26. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology






27. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events






28. Emotions about the object






29. 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






30. Name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world






31. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute






32. Genetic component & environmental conditioning






33. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]






34. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved






35. Learned behaviors weaken over time if not reinforced - remove maladaptive behavior by removing any reinforcement for it - removal of phobias/anxiety






36. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events






37. Provides objective - well-defined classification system including specific symptoms - does not suggest cures/therapy - 5 axes






38. Oedipus complex - realize father is a sexual rival/more powerful - castration complex - learn to identify with father






39. 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






40. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]






41. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]






42. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back






43. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic






44. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family






45. Raise generation that stereotypes don't exist - long and slow process






46. I. Clinical Disorders (alcohol dependence) II. Personality Disorders & Mental Retardation (antisocial personality disorder) III. Medical Conditions (cirrhosis of liver) IV. Social Functioning & stressors (death of child - marital stress) V. Global as






47. 1. Statistical Deviance 2. Cultural Deviance 3. Emotional Distress 4. Dysfunction






48. 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






49. Abnormal behavior is a disease/illness - not the patients fault - Treatment: asylum house - bloodletting






50. Do I have unique abilities and skills? [childhood]