Chapter 9
Development involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.
What is cognitive development?
Food, water, shelter, and warmth represent this need in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
What are physiological needs?
Long-standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways.
What is personality?
Girls engage in this type of bullying?
What is cyberbullying?
The amount of energy that is used up in a given period of time
What is metabolic rate?
genes and biology
What is nature?
Wants or needs that direct behavior toward a goal.
What is motivation?
Feeling that one lacks worth and doesn’t measure up to the standards of others or of society.
What is inferiority?
People get the outcomes they deserve
What is the just world hypothesis?
A pattern of behavior that is expected of a person in a given setting or group
What are social roles?
Grasping a toy, writing with a pencil, and using a spoon
What are fine motor skills?
Each individual has an ideal body weight that is resistant to change.
What is set point theory?
Unconscious protective behaviors that work to reduce anxiety
What are defense mechanisms?
Emotions and attitudes, the self, and social cognition
What are intrapersonal concepts?
Adult who smokes, drinks, overeats, or bites her nails is fixated in this stage of her psychosexual development.
What is the oral stage?
psychosexual stages of development
Who is Freud?
An individual who thinks that they are overweight and might often see themselves as "fat." Engages in starvation and constant exercise.
What is anorexia nervosa?
Value independence, competition, and personal achievement
What is an individualistic culture?
The strengthening of an original group attitude after the discussion of views
What is group polarization?
A one year old, and a mother who is sensitive and responsive to the child's needs. The child is distressed when his mother leaves, and the child is happy to see her when she returns.
What is secure attachment?
During adolescence there is a tendency to see people engage in higher levels of risk-taking behavior. Emotional outbursts are also quite common.
What is the frontal lobe?
When you modify a patient’s gastrointestinal system so that they can only eat or absorb a limited amount of food.
What is a bariatric surgery?
Narcissistic and impulsive
What is the id?
Researchers concluded that social roles are powerful determinants of human behavior.
What is the Stanford prison experiment?
Researchers concluded that identical twins, whether raised together or apart, have very similar personalities.
What is the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart?