Developmental Psychology
What is a fetus?
What is asexual?
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?
What part of the mind described by Sigmund Freud balances the unconscious desires and morals?
What is the ego
An optimal period early in the life of an organism when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces normal development.
What is the critical period?
What is narcissism?
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
What is unconditional positive regard?
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
What psychologist developed the theory of collective unconscious?
Carl Young
This developmental psychologist spent his life searching for the answer to how our mind grows.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The deliberate social exclusion of individuals or groups.
What is ostracism?
Compulsive fretting; overthinking our problems and their causes.
What is rumination?
The principle that frustration- the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal- creates anger, which can generate aggression.
What is the frustration-aggression principle?
What psychologist study contact comfort in monkeys?
Harry Harlow
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
What is a schema?
A form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. When its level is low, we feel hungry.
What is glucose?
DAILY DOUBLE: when a person has a significant focus on physical symptoms, such as pain, weakness or shortness of breath, to a level that results in major distress and/or problems functioning
What is somatic symptom disorder?
The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them.
What is the mere exposure effect?
In a normal distribution, what percent of scores fall in-between one standard deviation
What is 68%
Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.
What are teratogens?
Our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.
What is the adaptation-level phenomenon?
The study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change.
What is epigenetics?
Shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation.
What are superordinate goals?
What psychologist described multiple parenting styles including, Authoritarian and Authoritative
Diana Baumrind