Human Development
Understanding that objects still exist even after they are out of sight demonstrates this cognitive achievement.
What is object permanence?
Freud believed that smoking, nail biting, and overeating in adulthood could be signs of fixation at this psychosexual stage.
What is the oral stage?
Freud believed that smoking, nail biting, and overeating in adulthood could be signs of fixation at this psychosexual stage.
What is the oral stage?
This type of love is marked by intense attraction, obsession, and strong emotional arousal.
What is passionate love?
When many witnesses are present and no one helps during an emergency, psychologists call this phenomenon this.
What is the bystander effect?
Calling all round objects “ball” is an example of this language error in which one word is applied too broadly.
What is overextension?
Freud described this part of personality as operating on the pleasure principle and demanding immediate gratification.
What is the ID?
Harry Harlow’s monkey experiment showed that infant monkeys preferred soft comfort over food, demonstrating the importance of this.
What is attachment?
Assuming all members of KD are mean and judgmental is an example of this generalized belief about a group.
What is a stereotype?
Teenagers are more likely to make dangerous choices because this brain area is not fully developed.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
A child saying “I goed to the park” instead of “I went” demonstrates this grammatical mistake.
What is overregularization?
Bragging excessively to hide deep insecurity is an example of this psychological process.
What is overcompensation?
Rogers’ perspective on why people develop anxiety.
What is conditional love?
Refusing to hire someone because of their ethnicity is this behavioral expression of bias.
What is discrimination?
Kohlberg said children who behave only to avoid punishment are in this moral level.
What is preconventional morality?
Children who learn that caregivers are emotionally unavailable may develop this attachment pattern, characterized by suppression of emotional needs and little outward distress.
What is avoidant attachment?
This Big Five trait describes a person who is dependable, organized, and careful.
What is conscientiousness?
How Kohlberg explains how people develop a sense of right and wrong.
What is Kohlberg’s Model of Moral Reasoning?
This social psychology idea suggests that people are most likely to form romantic relationships with others of similar physical attractiveness.
What is matching hypothesis?
This stage of life is marked by instability, identity searching, and self-focus in the late teens and twenties.
What is emerging adulthood?
Piaget said children in this stage can use symbols and language, but they still struggle with logic.
What is the preoperational stage?
Carl Rogers believed anxiety develops when there is a mismatch between self-concept and lived experience, known as this.
What is incongruence?
The lowest level of Maslow’s Theory of Self actualization.
What are physiological needs?
Milgram’s obedience research showed that average people often obey this, even when it conflicts with conscience.
What is authority?
Favoring your own group over outsiders because it increased protection and cooperation refers to these two concepts.
What are ingroup and outgroup?