Can you name the Psychology Terms?

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The beast; only function is to seek pleasure at any cost
A way to keep id and superego happy at the same time
Changing unacceptable impulses into acceptable
Sexual attraction to children under age of puberty
Ability to withstand immediate reward in favor of long-term reward.
Tendency to attribute one's successes to personal factors and one's failures to situational factors.
Piaget's Development Stage 3 (conservation, logical thinking, math)
Piaget's Development Stage 2 (pretend play, egocentrism, language development)
Attributing your feelings to another
Psychosexual stage; satisfaction derived from release
No interest in sexuality
The guiding motivation in our behavior is unconditional positive regard.
Polygraph assessment which translates arousal into easily understood stimuli, and allows us to monitor our own level of arousal
Distancing from sex
Displaying behavior typical of an earlier stage of development
Situational pressures can make people obey instructions that go against their belief systems.
Doing an act for its own sake, pleasure of the act
Erickson (autonomy vs. shame and doubt)
Involuntary contraction of vaginal muscles, especially during times of high anxiety
The guiding force or motivation for our behavior is to fulfull our potential.
The self; balances other two
Inability to achieve orgasm even after long attempts
Subfield concerned with how individuals are influenced by others
Psychosexual stage; satisfaction derived feeding
Boy loves mother and hates father
Period of time required for reinstatement of sexual response cycle.
When mistakes are made, we tend to over-estimate the importance of trait variable in others and context variables in ourselves.
Motivation from within (internal)
Piaget's Development Stage 4 (abstract thinking)
Doing an act to obtain an external reinforcer, or avoid a punisher
Assessment on how unconscious mind influences behavior
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The tendency to input less effort or be less likely to assist when there is perception that others are available to pick up the 'slack.'
Displaying feelings onto an inappropriate target
Impressions are influenced by three things:
Erickson (intimacy vs. isolation)
Requires pain for arousal and orgasm
People are less likely to help others when they are in groups than when they are alone.
Erickson (identity vs. role confusion)
These attributions assume behavior is due to personal characteristics.
Need to cause others pain to have sexual pleasure
External stimuli, then physiological response followed by predicted emotional response
Primary motivation comes from outside (external)
Erickson (integrity vs. despair)
Contributions to attraction: four things
Component of attitude formation: what you are willing to do about it
Jobs should be highly structured and fool-proof with high levels of supervision.
The tendency to be 'on top of your game' when in the presence of observers. However, social observation can also have the opposite effect.
Erickson (generativity vs. stagnation)
When a victim is blamed for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way.
External stimuli with physiological arousal, then cognition, then emotional experience
Psychosexual stage; genital related fixation
Yielding to social pressure
Component of attitude formation: how you feel about it
Cannon suggests that this system's over activation is responsible for death during 'boning'
Erickson (trust/mistrust)
Use of non-sexual objects for stimulus
Engaging in an opposite behavior to an 'unacceptable' feeling
Basedow suggests that this system is responsible for death during the 'boning' process.
Erickson (initiative vs. guilt)
Genitals become engorged with blood causing erection and swelling of labia.
Inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others' behavior, and their own behavior
Exposing oneself to people who aren't prepared in order to become sexually aroused
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Arousal to something which has become associated with sex, but is not sex
Sexual excitement from watching people who don't know they're being watched
Unexpected touching for sexual arousal
Girl loves father and hates mother
When group members feel pressure to conform to the group and stop critically thinking (to avoid dissention in the group).
Factors responsible for Milgram obedience:
Piaget's Development Stage 1 (object permanence, stranger anxiety)
No erection
Stages of Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
Pushing memories into the unconscious to be avoided
Component of attitude formation: what you believe
This group process which states that like-minded groups are more likely to yield more extreme conclusions after group discussion.
Instead of restoring equilibrium, organisms may seek levels of higher arousal (ie thrill-seeking)
Employees like variety and responsibility and should be given challenges and accountability.
One side favors external attributions for their behavior while other side favors internal attribution
Causes great pain; general pain disorder
The conscience; holds values and ideas for the self
The process of forming impressions of others
No sweating
Over-analysis of difficult realties
Psychosexual stage; develop fixations based on earlier unresolved conflicts which manifest is adult behavior
When out of homeostasis, body may generate discomfort, which decreases with behavior that restores homeostasis.
Need to have feces as part of sexual arousal
Erickson (competence vs. inferiority)
Refusal to accept a difficult fact
Learning history can increase the pull of certain stimuli.
Body-wide muscle contractions, focuses around genitals, positioning of uterus, contractions of the cervix
External stimuli, then physiological response and emotional experience happen at the same time
Other physiological signs of arousal (breathing, heartrate, flushing...)
Using logic to find a way to justify our behavior or thoughts
These attributions assume behavior is due to contextual demands or environmental conditions
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