Developmental Psychology
The term critical period refers to:
A restricted time for development and/or learning
(Use-it-or-lose-it)
Second phase of general adaptation syndrome.
Resistance
GAD, panic and phobias are formally classified as _______ disorders
anxiety
At a large rock concert, Carmen lost her inhibitions and acted more wildly than she ever has before. This is likely due to...
Deindividuation
openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism
Costa & McCrae
If Jeremy begs for a new electronic gadget, his parents nearly always buy it for him. What parenting style is this?
Permissive Indulgent
Theory of emotion that suggests physical arousal and emotional experience arise simultaneously.
Cannon-bard
Aline is being treated for her phobia of snakes, and her therapist has asked her to construct a list (from lowest to highest) of all the snake-related ideas, images, and experiences that elicit fear. What treatment is Karen experiencing?
System Desensitization
The Fundamental Attribution Error refers to our tendency to overestimate______ and underestimate _________.
dispositions;situations
controversial study on obedience
Stanley Milgrim
Jane, a preschooler, insists on dressing herself each morning for school, even though she generally selects mismatching outfits, misses buttons, and wears her shoes on the wrong feet. When her mother tries to dress Jane or fix her outfit, Jane brushes her mother off and insists on doing it herself. What stage of psychosocial development best describes Jane’s behavior?
The Yerkes-Dodson Law predicts that most people would perform an easy task best if they are at a
high level of arousal
What therapeutic drugs are used to control bipolar disorder?
Mood Stabilizers
Two neighborhoods were frequently at odds with each other until a tornado struck the area and they had to work together to clean up and rebuild. This is an example of...
Superordinate goals
Misinformation Effect
Elizabeth Loftus
When the baby's cheek is stroked they turn towards the side it was stroked and begins making sucking motions. What reflex is this?
Rooting Reflex
The interacting influences between personality and environmental factors
Reciprocal Determinism
Mrs. Coleman is a withdrawn schizophrenia patient. To help her become more socially active, institutional staff members give her small plastic cards whenever she talks to someone. She is allowed to exchange these cards for candy. Staff members are making use of
A token economy
The assumption underlying the notion of groupthink is that
Group members tend to want peace and harmony within the group; make a decision to avoid further debate
Identity Development(expanded on Eric Erikson's psychosocial development)
John Marcia
The correct order or sequence of Piaget's stages of cognitive development is
sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
Lateral hypothalamus
Which form of therapy has most directly contributed to the sharp reduction in the number of residents in U.S. mental hospitals?
Drug Therapy/Biomedial Therapy
"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured." This belief is best explained by
cognitive dissonance
Moral Development
Lawrence Kohlberg