Chapter 15 Vocab
The discrimination and prejudice against a group on the basis of age
What is ageism?
The act of recognizing a disorder on the basis of specified symptoms.
What is Diagnosis?
The complex set of reactions made by an individual under pressure to adapt.
What is Stress?
The disorder characterized by impaired social interaction, problems with communication, and unusual or severaly limited activities and interests.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD?
Alondras parents never give her any guidance. They are indifferet about her social, emotional, and behavioral needs.
What is Neglectful?
The first menstrual period.
What is Menarche?
The ides that are firmly held regardless of evidence to the contrary; false beliefs.
What are Delusions?
The hypothesis stating that frustration is the only cause or aggresion.
What is the Frustration-Aggresion Hypothesis?
The disorder that involves a long lasting pattern of percieving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that is maladaptive and inflexible and causes either impaired functioning or distress.
What is Personality Disorder?
Rowens friends always call his parents cool because they rarely enforce any rules around the house and let him do whatever he wants.
What is Permissive?
The mental representation children construct in order to make sense of the world in which they live.
What is a Schema?
The maladaptive cognitions, affects, and/or behaviors that are at odds with social expectations and results in distress or discomfort.
What is Abnormal?
The stress resulting from a decision or choise to be made.
What are Motivational Conflicts?
The disorder involving a persistent and excessive fear of some object, activity, or situation that leads a person to avoid that object, activity, or situation.
What is Specific Phobia?
Bertrums parents set clear rules and expectations that are always open for communication, but have natural consequences. When a problem arises, they all solve it together as a team.
What is Authoritative?
The concern for family and for one's impact on future generations.
What is Generativity?
The condition characterized as an elevated mood with feelings of euphoria or irritability.
What is Mania?
The measure that reflects income, education level, and occupation.
What is Socioeconomic Status or SES?
The disorder involving a distortion of realit; a retreat from other people; and disturbances in affect, behavior, and cognition.
What is Schizophrenia?
Islas parents set a lot of harsh rules and give ruthless punishments if any are broken. Her parents expect their orders to be followed without question. They have little consideration for her social, emotional, and behavioral needs.
What is Authoritarian?
The period of transition from the dependence of childhood to the indeopendence of adulthood. It is the period of development that begins at puberty (sexual maturity) and lasts through the teen years.
What is Adolesence?
The legal concept that a person did not know or fully understand the consequences of their actions at a given time, could not discern the differebce between the right and wrong, and was unable to exercise control over their actions at the time a crime was commited.
What is insanity?
The process of providing information to an individual about their bodiluy processes in some form that they might be able to use to modify those processes.
What is Biofeedback?
The disorder in which a person seeks to escape from some aspect of life or personality seen as the source of stress, discomfort, or anxiety.
What is Dissociative Disorder?
Macys parents always give into her tantrums and rarely ever say no to her. Her parents let her avoid responsibilites and act mor elike her friends than her guardians.
What is Permissive?