ISS 1161 Exam One Review

 

 

Chapter 1

 

 

Paradox of Progress

Information Anxiety

Information Overload

Search for Meaning

Codependency

What is psychobabble?

Overlearing

Interference

Correlation Coefficient

 

 

Chapter 2

 

Define personality

Define trait

Describe the five-factor theory of personality

Psychodynamic theory

Psychoanalysis

Pleasure principle

Topographic model

Structural model

Rationalization

Displacement

Identification

Repression

Reaction-formation

Projection

Fixation

Regression

Psychosexual stages

Jung's concept of the unconscious

Classical conditioning

Unconditioned stimulus

Conditioned stimulus

Positive and negative reinforcement

Punishment

Observational learning

Humanistic Psychology

Eysenck

Bandura

Twin studies

Maslow

Rogers

Hierarchy of needs

Self-actualization

 

Chapter 15

 

Medical model of abnormal behavior and other models and criteria

 

Criteria for abnormality

 

Etiology

 

Diagnosis

 

Prognosis

 

Concordance

 

Epedemiology

 

Role of culture in defining abnormal behavior

 

DSM classification system

 

Causes and characteristics of schizophrenia

 

Anorexia and bulimia

 

Rosenhan's study

 

Obsessions

 

Compulsions

 

Somatoform disorders

 

Conversion disorder

 

Mood disorders (bi-polar and unipolar)

 

Dissociative disorders

 

MPD or DID

 

 

Chapter16

 

Behavior Therapy

 

Characteristics of Prescription Drug Therapy

 

Biomedical Therapy

 

Two most common complaints of those who seek therapy

 

Difference between a clinical psychologist and a counseling psychologist

 

Characteristics and practice of Psychoanalysis

 

Transference

 

Resistance

 

Free association

 

Systematic desensitization

 

Anxiety hierarchies

 

Social skills training

 

Psychopharmacotherapy

 

Classes of psychoactive drugs i.e. for depression, anxiety, psychosis

 

Lithium

 

Diazepam

 

Halperidol

 

Eclectic psychotherapy

 

Therapist's gender

 

Therapist's effectiveness

 

Responsibility in therapy

 

 

 

 

Chapter 3

 

Define stress

Primary appraisal

Secondary appraisal

Ambient stress

Frustration

Conflict

Pressure

Change

Types of conflict

Sensation seeking behavior

Psychosomatic Disorders

PTSD

 

 

Chapter 4

 

Adaptive value of coping techniques

Learned helplessness

Carol Tavris's view of aggressive behavior

Ellis's theory

Beck and cognitive therapy

Self-blame

Self-criticism

Humor an stress

Reference group

 

 

Chapter 5

 

Possible Selves

Self-complexity

Children's self-perceptions in relations to parent's attitudes

Individualistic and Collectivistic cultures and their effects on self-perception

Nature and development of identity

Marcia's theory of identity

Ethnic identity

Self-esteem

Types of attributions

Effect of different attributions on emotions

Self-handicapping

Self-efficacy

 

Chapter 6

 

Sources of Information in Person Perception

 

Types of Attributions

 

Fundamental Attribution Error

 

Types of Bias

 

Self-Fulfilling Prohecies

 

Stereotypes

 

Primacy Effect and Recency Efect

 

Prejudice and Personality Types

 

Reducing Intergroup Hostility (Sherif)

 

Dynamics of Persuasion

 

Conformity Studies (Asch)

 

Obedience Studies (Milgram)

 

Fatal Social Influence (Jim Jones in Guyana)

 

Reciprocity Norm

 

Lowball Technique

 

Feigned Scarcity

 

Modeling (Bandura)