Consciousness
High levels of sensory awareness, thought, and behavior.
What is wakefulness?
The three developmental domains are physical development, cognitive development, and...
What is psychosocial development?
A prolonged, less intense state than emotion.
What is mood?
This state of consciousness is seen as the personality of others. (ID, Ego, and Superego)
What is ego?
Biological rhythm that occurs over approximately 24 hours.
What is circadian rhythm?
The actual content of the dream.
What is manifest content?
Views development as occurring in unique stages (specific times or ages).
What is discontinuous development?
The hypothalamus, thalamus, hippocampus, and amygdala are all part of this system of the brain.
What is the limbic system?
Patterns that exist in our collective unconscious across cultures/societies.
What are archetypes?
Focused on children’s cognitive growth and theorized that cognitive abilities develop through four specific stages
What is Piaget's Cognitive Theory?
The most common sleep disorder
What is insomnia?
Claimed that children’s pleasure-seeking urges are focused on different erogenous zones at each of the 5 stages of development
What is Freud's Psychosexual Theory?
This effect says intrinsic motivation is diminished when extrinsic motivation is given.
What is the overjustification effect?
The two strong emotions of the four different emotions/temperaments.
What is melancholic and choleric?
A sensory relay center for the brain
What is the thalamus?
Occurs when a person requires more and more of a drug to achieve effects previously experienced at lower doses
What is tolerance?
Any environmental agent (biological, chemical, or physical) that causes damage to the developing embryo or fetus.
What is a teratogen?
This theory says that emotions arise from physiological arousal.
What is the James Lange theory?
The universal version of personal unconscious, holding mental patterns, or memory traces, which are common to all of us.
What is collective unconcious?
Emphasizes both learning and cognition as sources of individual difference in personality.
Drugs that suppress the central nervous system activity
What are depressants?
Neural connections are reduced during childhood and adolescence to allow the brain to function more efficiently.
What is the pruning period?
Attentional control, cognitive reappraisal, and response modulation are all examples of...
What are emotional regulation strategies?
Learning approaches to personality focus on observable, measurable phenomena.
What is the behavioral perspective?
level of confidence in our own abilities, developed through social experiences.
Self efficacy