Developmental Psychology
What is a fetus?
This is the first stage of the General Adaptation Syndrome
What is the Alarm Reaction
A disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished inappropriate emotional expression.
What is schizophrenia?
A generalized belief about a group of people.
What is a stereotype?
Part of the Brain that receives sensory input for touch/body position
Parietal Lobe
An optimal checkpoint early in the life of an organism when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces normal development.
What is the critical period?
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
What is unconditional positive regard?
The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request.
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
Part of the Brain that processes and coordinates voluntary movement and balance
The Cerebellum
This developmental psychologist spent his life searching for the answer to how our mind grows.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This area of the brain sends the hunger message to the body
Lateral Hypothalamus
Compulsive fretting; overthinking our problems and their causes.
What is rumination?
The principle that irritation (the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal) creates anger, which can generate aggression.
What is the frustration-aggression principle?
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
What is a schema?
The phenomenon that repeated subjection to novel stimuli increases liking of them.
What is the mere exposure effect?
This is the first stage in the Atkinson-Shiffrin Model. Where a large amount of information can be held briefly.
Sensory Memory
Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.
What are teratogens?
This Theory of Emotion states that cognitive labeling is not always necessary, and focuses on fear as an emotion that cuts through and triggers an immediate reaction
The LeDoux Theory
The study of environmental influences on gene expression that occurs without a DNA change.
What is epigenetics?
Shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation.
What are superordinate goals?
These are the two theories on why we perceive color
Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory + Opponent Processing Theory