Social Psych
How can physical attractiveness affect person perception?
Attractive people are often ascribed more desirable characteristics than they have. (Pretty privilege)
Which factor of Type A personality is correlated with hearth disease?
Anger and Hostility
How did the medical model change the way mental illness was viewed?
Took the blame off of those suffering from mental illness and allowed people to begin to get treatment.
What is the difference between insight and behavior therapies?
Insight therapies focusing on getting the client to find out the root cause of their problems, while Behavior therapies believe self-understanding is not helpful to change.
They believe that...
1. Behavior is a product of learning
2. What's learned can be unlearned
What type of conflict is when one choice has a good side and a bad side?
Approach-Avoidant
Which attachment style would be someone who finds it easy to get close to, is fine depending on others, and is generally easy to get close to?
Secure Attachment Style
How do peoples appraisals of situations affect the stress they feel?
Appraisal is very subjective. People who are naturally higher in neuroticism and appraise situations more negatively often have higher stress. But those with higher openness to experience are more likely to appraise situations in a positive light leading to lower stress
How do dissociative disorders differ from personality disorders?
Dissociative disorders lead people to lose contact with portion of their consciousness and memory while personality disorders lead people to have extreme, inflexible personality traits that cause distress and impaired social functioning
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
Long-term effects of anti-psychotic disorders that lead to ticks from nerve damage
What are the two things needed to make an treatment evidence-based?
1. Randomized Control Groups
2. Systematic Reviews
A Dawn dish soap shows you a baby duck with the aim of getting you to associate your warm feelings about the duck with their product. What is this technique called?
Evaluative Conditioning
What are the three things the Broaden-Build theory lists as ways positive emotions promote resilience?
1. Alter peoples mindset
2. Undo lingering effects of negative emotions
3. Promote rewarding social interactions
List the three critiques of the DSM-5
1. Significant overlap between disorders
2. Use of the categorical approach
3. over-medicalize everyday problems
What model of treatment is used most often as it combines many treatment techniques leading to the most effective outcomes?
Eclectic Approach
What are Concordance Rates?
The rate of twins or relatives that have a condition given that the other one has it.
Predicts how much of a part heredity plays in explaining disorders
A man used to be homophobic until their son came out as gay. The discomfort of holding his hate and loving his son at the same time caused him to change his attitudes.
Cognitive Dissonance
List the 4 unhealthy coping mechanisms discussed in class
1. Giving Up and Blaming oneself
2. Striking Out at Others
3. Indulging Oneself
4. Defense Mechanisms (In excess)
What are the three main types of symptoms experience by those with Schizophrenia?
1. Delusions and Irrational Thoughts
2. Distorted Perception
3. Disturbed Emotion
What are the four drawbacks of biomedical therapies?
1. Not as effective as advertised
2. Overmedicated
3. Damaging side effects
4. Negative effects are not fully appreciated
Which two neurotransmitters does depressive medication target?
Norepinephrine and Serotonin
Name the three behaviors that often occur due to Stereotype Threat
1. Reduced Effort
2. Disengagement
3. Changing Aspirations/Goals
Name and explain the three stages of General Adaptation Syndrome.
1. Alarm Stage - recognize threat, high arousal
2. Resistance - arousal high but may level out or you adapt
3. Exhaustion - Body depleted if can't handle stress
Bonus: Can you name the theorist who came up with it?
What is a pessimistic-explanatory style? How does it relate to MAD?
- Tendency to attribute set backs to personal factors rather than situational factors
People with this explanatory style are more likely to have MAD
What is the difference between Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia?
Anorexia is solely focused on weight loss through restricting eating while Bulimia is characterized by overeating and then purging.
Bulimics are more likely to seek help while those suffering from Anorexia are less likely to seek help
What are the two main parts of the brain that are stimulated in the brain-body pathway?
Hypothalamus and Pituitary Gland