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Elementary Psychology
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1. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Integrity vs Despair
TriPartite Model: Affect
Ego
Generativity vs Stagnation
2. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Criteria for Abnormal
Social Roles
3. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
insecure-anxious attachment
genital stage
Public Conformity
GAD Treatments
4. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Stereotype
phallic stage
Anxiety Disorder
Fundamental Attribution Error
5. Predisposition to act - actions in the past
anal stage
Marucha Study
TriPartite Model: Behavior
egocentrism
6. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
anxiety
Flynn Effect
7. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Sheridan & King Study
insecure-anxious attachment
aptitude test
8. High in consistency; low in distinctiveness - consensus - the person is the cause
internalization
Industry vs Inferiority
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Internal Attribution
9. Depressed mood - loss of interest/pleasure - change in appetite/weight - sleep disturbance - psychomotor agitation - feelings of worthlessness/guilt
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
WAIS
MMPI
GAD Treatments
10. Physical vs. social interaction
zone of proximal development
Stress as a Transaction
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Rosenhan Experiment
11. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
formal operational
Clinical Psychology
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Causes of Schizophrenia
12. Emotions about the object
TriPartite Model: Affect
Cognitive Dissonance
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Discrimination
13. Sexually desire their mother
Phobia
Stressors as Stimuli
TriPartite Model: Cognition
oedipus complex
14. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
Stressors as Stimuli
External Attribution
To Reduce Dissonance...
Pygmalion effect
15. Reward desired behavior with tangible token that can be exchanged for goods/privileges
Statistical Deviance
Token Economy
Internalized Standard
Cultural Deviance
16. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
insecure-avoidant attachment
Treatment for Schizophrenia
To Reduce Dissonance...
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
17. + 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
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
object permanence
disorganized attachment
18. We behave as we do because it was adaptive for our ancestors
phallic stage
Evolutionary Psych
Dependence
Freud's Background Info
19. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
girl phallic stage
Trait Theory
Processing Speed
oral stage
20. Gap between current outcomes and the comparison level for alternatives (CLalt) - CLalt: next best relationship you could have
Dysfunction
Dependence
preoperational
TriPartite Model: Affect
21. 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
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
The Big Five
sensorimotor
Stages of Appraisal
22. Counterconditioning - systematic desensitization - flooding
Factors that predict relationship success
Dependence
internalization
Phobia Treatments
23. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Dependence
MMPI
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Biopsychosocial Model
24. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Stress as a Transaction
Things that can influence IQ scores
Phobia Treatments
25. Emotions about the object
Cooperation
MMPI
External Attribution
TriPartite Model: Affect
26. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
Conformity
lexical hypothesis
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Satisfaction
27. Behavior that negatively affects a group of people - [Behavior]
Discrimination
Ego
Eustress
Social Roles
28. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
The Big Five
Emotional Distress
projective tests
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
29. Thoughts and actions are identical - acquisition of object permanence - A not B error (preservation) - [Piaget]
Anxiety Disorder
Obedience
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
sensorimotor
30. Upset when leaves - mixed feelings when they return
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Door in the Face
Token Economy
insecure-anxious attachment
31. No response to leaving or returning
Integrity vs Despair
Ecclectic Therapists
insecure-avoidant attachment
Obedience
32. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Health Psychology
attachment
TAT
Personality
33. Pleasure from the mouth (sucking) - stems from need for breast milk
girl phallic stage
Internalized Standard
oral stage
Cognitive Dissonance
34. Discomfort created when our attitudes do not match our behavior
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Stanford Prison Study
Criteria for Abnormal
Cognitive Dissonance
35. Strict moral guide - conscious - preconscious - and unconscious - tries to repress Id's demands - guided by idealistic principal
Cooperation
projective tests
Superego
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
36. High in consistency - distinctiveness - consensus - the situation is the cause
DSM-IV-TR
Ego
External Attribution
Initiative vs Guilt
37. Process by which social forces are internalized in infants - mastering skills by interacting with others - [Vygotsky's]
anxiety
WAIS
internalization
lexical hypothesis
38. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Rosenhan Experiment
Adv/Disadv of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Causes of Schizophrenia
secure attachment
39. Ability to think of images - shapes - figures
Satisfaction
WAIS
Stressors
Perceptual Organization
40. Calm reaction - they know they are coming back
achievement test
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
External Attribution
secure attachment
41. Thematic apperception test - tell stories about ambiguous pictures
Harlow's Experiment
TAT
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Verbal Comprehension
42. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Informational Influence
Biopsychosocial Model
Stress as a Transaction
egocentrism
43. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Cognitive Therapy
castration complex
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
44. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion
insecure-anxious attachment
Superego
The Big Five
Theory of Parental Investment
45. Cannot see things from another persons perspective
Things that can influence IQ scores
Trait Theory
egocentrism
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
46. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
projective tests
phallic stage
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Satisfaction
47. Worry that father will cut their penis off
Ecclectic Therapists
attachment
castration complex
secure attachment
48. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
object permanence
anxiety
TriPartite Model: Affect
49. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
latency stage
Trait Theory
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Stages of Appraisal
50. Convergence of individual's thoughts - feelings - or behavior towards a social norm
Conformity
achievement test
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Factors that predict relationship success
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