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Elementary Psychology
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1. 1. Problem Focused: tackle the stressor head on - usually occurs when optimistic and believe we can achieve our goals 2. Emotion Focused: try to place a more positive outlook on emotions - engage in behaviors to reduce painful emotions
Cultural Deviance
Coping Strategies for Stress
General Adaptation Syndrome
Informational Influence
2. Goal is to change therapy - focus on reinforcing desired behaviors and eliminating undesired behaviors
Behavior Therapy
Cultural Deviance
Shaping
Conformity
3. Stop smoking - cut down on alcohol consumption - exercise to relieve stress and maintain healthy weight - eat healthy
Generativity vs Stagnation
Stress as a Response
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Asch study
4. Both big 5 traits & some personality disorder - compared to selected groups even if they don't make sense - Ex: 'I like cake'
aptitude test
Flynn Effect
Rational Emotive Therapy
MMPI
5. 3+ members in a group - cultures stresses respect for social norms - admiration of group's status - individual feels incompetent or insecure - unanimous group
Rosenhan Experiment
Increased Likelihood of Conformity...
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
anxiety
6. Do I have self control; am I in charge of my life? [childhood]
Autonomy vs Doubt
attachment
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
Statistical Deviance
7. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
Attributions
phallic stage
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Cultural Deviance
8. 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
Pygmalion effect
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
9. Increase in symbolic thought - egocentrism - language development - [Piaget]
oedipus complex
object permanence
preoperational
Internal Attribution
10. Able to see that products/objects are not changing even if they undergo a transformation
Stressors
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Freud's Background Info
conservation
11. Satisfaction & dependence/alternatives
Basic Cognitive Therapy
Factors that predict relationship success
Verbal Comprehension
Satisfaction
12. 1) untestable 2) evidence that social roles may be more important 3) too deterministic
Ecclectic Therapists
Public Conformity
Clinical Psychology
Criticisms of Attraction Theory
13. Releases stress hormones - disregulated in individuals experiencing chronic stress - can suppress the immune system
oral stage
Cognitive Dissonance
HPA axis
Fundamental Attribution Error
14. Most common mistake: quick to assume personality - forget circumstances & situation
Fundamental Attribution Error
Eustress
Coping Strategies for Stress
castration complex
15. Jealousy/hatred of all other women
Generativity vs Stagnation
Token Economy
electra complex
Social Psychology
16. Abstract thinking develops - final stage - [Piaget]
formal operational
Asch study
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
Prejudice
17. Replication of Milgram study - same study but with administering shocks to puppies
Treatment for Schizophrenia
Sheridan & King Study
Id
Cognitive Therapy
18. Inferences about the cause of behavior - help us create attitudes about ourselves/others
TAT
Cognitive Dissonance
Attributions
Coping Strategies for Stress
19. Distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking - feeling - and acting
Personality
Cognitive Dissonance
Behavior: Adv/Disadv
Causes for Phobias
20. Evil spirits inhibited the body - believed witches had mental illness - Treatment: exorcism
Psychopathology
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Stanford Prison Study
Dependence
21. Limited resources - creates conflict over these resources - leads to hostility between groups
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Stress as a Transaction
Realistic Conflict
The Big Five
22. General feeling of apprehension about a possible danger
Ecclectic Therapists
attachment
anxiety
Phobia Treatments
23. Reward gradual approximation to desired behavior
Flynn Effect
Freud's Background Info
Shaping
Trust vs Mistrust
24. Do I have a unified sense of self? [adolescence]
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Identity vs Role Confusion
secure attachment
Stress
25. Bio: genetic factors - physiology - Pysch: cognition - emotion - motivation - Social: society/media - community - family
Door in the Face
TriPartite Model: Cognition
Biopsychosocial Model
Stress as a Response
26. Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Social Roles
castration complex
Clinical Psychology
Autonomy vs Doubt
27. 1. Paranoid: delusions of persecution or grandeur 2. Disorganized: incoherence - delusions - hallucinations 3. Catatonic: frozen/excited motor behavior 4. Undifferentiated: all of the above
electra complex
Four Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Criteria for Abnormal
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
28. Ability to concentrate & hold information in your mind
egocentrism
Processing Speed
Demonic Model of Psychopathology
Anxiety Disorder
29. Beliefs about the object
Fundamental Attribution Error
TriPartite Model: Cognition
concrete operational
Industry vs Inferiority
30. 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
MMPI
Stressors
Stress as a Response
Foot in the Door
31. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Sheridan & King Study
Dependence
Integrity vs Despair
Criticisms of Piaget's Theory
32. Sheriff study at boys camp - Three Stages: Ingroup Formation - Friction Phase - Integration Phase
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Id
Cooperation
Factors that predict relationship success
33. Influence resulting from a person's willingness to accept others opinions about reality
Flynn Effect
Perceptual Organization
Psychopathology
Informational Influence
34. Unhappy - lonely - often produces physical or emotional pain - distress alone is not enough (mania - psychopathy)
sensorimotor
Emotional Distress
Flynn Effect
Eustress
35. Situations that cause stress - subjective and personal
Kelley's Covariation Model
Stressors
Interdependence Theory
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
36. Focus on irrational distorted thoughts - identify distortions - change them to be more realistic
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Realistic Conflict
Rational Emotive Therapy
Obedience
37. Acceptance of one's life - both successes & failures [adulthood]
Fundamental Attribution Error
Cognitive Therapy
Integrity vs Despair
Token Economy
38. Pleasure from your own sexual organs - start of masturbation
Evolutionary Psych
phallic stage
Behavior Therapy
Stress as a Response
39. Use of rewards to reinforce behavior
Cognitive Therapy
Behavior: Reinforcement Method
The Big Five
Public Conformity
40. Teachers may treat students differently depending on what the teacher believes about the students IQ
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Variation of Stanley Milgram Study
Pygmalion effect
41. Anti-psychotic drugs (Thorazine - Haidol) - no cure - only treatment
Schizophrenia
Satisfaction
TriPartite Model: Behavior
Treatment for Schizophrenia
42. Have I contributed to the world in some meaningful way? [adulthood]
Trait Theory
Private Conformity
Perceptual Organization
Generativity vs Stagnation
43. 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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44. Pervasive loss of contact with reality - most severe psychopathology
Psychosis
Harlow's Experiment
oedipus complex
Stanley Milgram Study
45. Three Components: Passion - Intimacy - Commitments
Integrity vs Despair
The Modern Model of Psychopathology
Intimacy vs Isolation
Sternbergs Triangle Theory
46. Measuring the ability to concentrate - similarities: how are a thermometer and a ruler alike? - vocabulary: what does covert mean? - information: who was George Washington Carver?
Satisfaction
Verbal Comprehension
Attitude
Behavior Therapy
47. Gap between your actual developmental level and your potential developmental level [Vygotsky's]
zone of proximal development
girl phallic stage
Pygmalion effect
Integrity vs Despair
48. Foot in the door vs door in the face
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49. Men: easy to reproduce - want fertility - Women: pregnancy-> picky - want stability
Attitude
Theory of Parental Investment
MMPI
Fundamental Attribution Error
50. Can I form a committed relationship with another individual? [adolescence]
Freud's Background Info
Intimacy vs Isolation
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
MMPI