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Elementary Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Overt behavior consistent with social norms that are not privately accepted (external)
insecure-avoidant attachment
Social Roles
Stanford Prison Study
Public Conformity
2. Worry that father will cut their penis off
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
castration complex
Basic Cognitive Therapy
3. 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
Perceptual Organization
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Foot in the Door
Statistical Deviance
4. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
girl phallic stage
object permanence
5. Positive or negative evaluation of a group of people - [Affect]
Biopsychosocial Model
Causes for Phobias
Prejudice
Health Psychology
6. Role of experimenter vs. proximity of learner
Cognitive Dissonance
Initiative vs Guilt
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
disorganized attachment
7. Gradually pair feared object with feelings of cal/relaxation - progressively fearful things are confronted
Autonomy vs Doubt
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Stereotype
Factors that predict relationship success
8. Will others fulfill my needs - or am I on my own? [childhood]
WAIS
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
Public Conformity
Trust vs Mistrust
9. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
MMPI
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Realistic Conflict
10. 1. Checked into mental hospital for hearing voices 2. admitted for observation 3. they behaved as they normally would
Criteria for Abnormal
Rosenhan Experiment
oedipus complex
HPA axis
11. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Verbal Comprehension
Behavior: Systematic Desensitization Method
Cooperation
Phobia
12. Mix of biology and psychology - biological predisposition & perhaps environmental stressor involved
Causes of Schizophrenia
insecure-anxious attachment
Behavior: Extinction Method
TriPartite Model: Behavior
13. 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
Transformation of Motivation
Interdependence Theory
Biopsychosocial Model
14. Highlight negative thoughts - therapists work to change thoughts and focus on interpretation of events
formal operational
Token Economy
phallic stage
Basic Cognitive Therapy
15. 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
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Foot in the Door
Attitude
boy phallic stage
16. Beliefs about the object
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
insecure-avoidant attachment
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Internal Attribution
17. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Biopsychosocial Model
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Id
18. Uncontrollable and inescapable exposure to stressors that can lead to disease/disability - Ex: distant - chronic - acute
Distress
Informational Influence
Door in the Face
projective tests
19. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
achievement test
formal operational
Behavior: Extinction Method
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
20. Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges
Sheridan & King Study
attachment
Stress
Sheridan & King Study
21. 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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22. If there are traits to describe human behavior - then we must have a word for them
TAT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Obedience
lexical hypothesis
23. Evaluation or opinion that an individual has toward something
Anxiety Disorder
Attitude
Eustress
Marucha Study
24. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Psychosis
Ecclectic Therapists
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
secure attachment
25. Unrealistic - irrational fear of disabling intensity
MMPI
Identity vs Role Confusion
Anxiety Disorder
Personality
26. Monkeys preferred the comfortable mom vs the mom that provided food - contact comfort
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27. Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
Ego
aptitude test
Statistical Deviance
Freud's Background Info
28. Genetic component & environmental conditioning
Causes for Phobias
Health Psychology
Autonomy vs Doubt
Factors that predict relationship success
29. Complying with a request due to the perception that the requestor has a legit right to make the request
Obedience
Transformation of Motivation
Cialdini's Compliance
object permanence
30. 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
Industry vs Inferiority
External Attribution
Emotional Distress
Door in the Face
31. Set of beliefs & impressions about a group of people - effect usually negative - [Cognition]
Sheridan & King Study
Stereotype
oedipus complex
Internalized Standard
32. No response to leaving or returning
insecure-avoidant attachment
Harlow's Experiment
attachment
Stress
33. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
Behavior Therapy
Cognitive Therapy
34. Emotions about the object
oedipus complex
TriPartite Model: Affect
Attitude
Causes for Phobias
35. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Biopsychosocial Model
Stress as a Transaction
Intimacy vs Isolation
Stress
36. 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
DSM Axes
Cultural Deviance
Rosenhan Experiment
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
37. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
preoperational
External Attribution
Psychosis
Freud's Background Info
38. Focus on the outcome of being in a situation that causes stress - stress is a physiological response Ex: fight or flight vs General Adaptation Syndrome
Trust vs Mistrust
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Stress as a Response
Stanford Prison Study
39. Focus on relationship with primary caregiver
attachment
GAD Treatments
difference between piaget and vygotsky
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
40. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Stress
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Internal Attribution
Verbal Comprehension
41. Most common type of therapy - combo of behavioral and cognitive therapy - focus on changing thoughts and behaviors using learning and conditioning methods
Stanford Prison Study
lexical hypothesis
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Normative Influence
42. 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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43. Study of the individuals - by observation - with the intention of promoting change
Things that can influence IQ scores
Kelley's Covariation Model
Superego
Clinical Psychology
44. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Interdependence Theory
Behavior: Extinction Method
Eustress
45. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
preoperational
difference between piaget and vygotsky
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Obedience
46. Deinstitutionalization: worked for some - but not all - diagnosis based on symptoms - Treatment: therapy - drugs
anal stage
Psychosis
difference between piaget and vygotsky
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
47. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
Phobia
Emotional Distress
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Id
48. Persistent - disproportionate fear of specific object or situation that presents no real danger (irrational) - interfere with daily life
Phobia
Milgrams Explanations
GAD Treatments
Ego
49. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Flynn Effect
projective tests
Social Psychology
Integrity vs Despair
50. We all want a positive self-esteem - self includes group membership: 'my group is better than yours'
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Social Identity
Stanley Milgram Study
Informational Influence