Developmental Psychology
Motivation, Emotion, and Personality
Psychological Disorders and Treatments
Social Psychology
Psychologists
100

The term critical period refers to:

A restricted time for development and/or learning

(Use-it-or-lose-it)

100

Second phase of general adaptation syndrome.

Resistance

100

GAD, panic and phobias are formally classified as _______ disorders

anxiety

100

At a large rock concert, Carmen lost her inhibitions and acted more wildly than she ever has before. This is likely due to...

Deindividuation

100

openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism

Costa & McCrae

200

If Jeremy begs for a new electronic gadget, his parents nearly always buy it for him. What parenting style is this?

Permissive Indulgent

200

Theory of emotion that suggests physical arousal and emotional experience arise simultaneously.

Cannon-bard

200

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

200

The Fundamental Attribution Error refers to our tendency to overestimate______ and underestimate _________.

dispositions;situations

200

controversial study on obedience

Stanley Milgrim

300

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?

Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
300

The Yerkes-Dodson Law predicts that most people would perform an easy task best if they are at a

high level of arousal

300

What therapeutic drugs are used to control bipolar disorder?

Mood Stabilizers

300

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

300

Misinformation Effect

Elizabeth Loftus

400

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

400

The interacting influences between personality and environmental factors

Reciprocal Determinism

400

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

400

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

400

Identity Development(expanded on Eric Erikson's psychosocial development)

John Marcia

500

The correct order or sequence of Piaget's stages of cognitive development is

sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

500
Stimulation of this area would cause a rat to begin eating.

Lateral hypothalamus

500

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

500

"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured." This belief is best explained by

cognitive dissonance

500

Moral Development

Lawrence Kohlberg

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