Can you name the Psychology Terms?

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