Lifespan Development
Major structures begin to form during what stage of prenatal development?
Embryonic
This is the process of changing our attitude toward something based on some form of communication
What is persuasion?
environmental events that seem threatening or demanding; stimuli that initiate the stress process.
What is a stressor?
consists of efforts to change or reduce the negative emotions associated with stress.
What is Emotion-focused coping?
Attitudes and feelings toward individuals based solely on their membership in a particular group is known as this
What is prejudice?
When we expect or believe something will happen, a lot of the time it actually happens. This can sometimes be explained by
Self-fulfilling prophecy
When something stressful happens, our bodies release Oxytocin. This hormone increases our likelihood to
Seek social support
Any activity that we do deliberately in order to take care of our mental, emotional, and physical health.
What is self-care?
Nicole's parents give her reasonable demands and consistent limits, express warmth and affection, and listen to her point of view. Nicole's parents are exhibiting what parenting style?
The Strange Situation experiment demonstrated what concept?
Over the weekend, you should have been studying for your exam. Instead, you were out at a end of the semester party. You told yourself, “It’s okay, I deserve a break!” You felt the need to justify your actions because you were experiencing __________.
What is cognitive dissonance?
Chronic stress can lead to illness because increases in _______ weaken our immune system
What is the cortisol?
Engaging in ________ requires noticing thoughts, sensations, and feelings without judging them or attempting to control them. Simply, it is about being as present as possible in any given moment.
Mindfulness
In Milgram’s Obedience original experiment, what percent of people administered the highest, deadly shock?
65%
In this type of parenting style, parents place a high value on conformity and obedience, are often rigid, and express little warmth to the child
What is authoritarian?
Ronald seeks out information that supports his stereotypes about women, but ignores information about women that is inconsistent with these stereotypes. This is an example of:
What is confirmation bias?
What type of stress response occurs from experiencing strong, frequent, and/or prolonged adversity such as emotional or physical abuse?
What is toxic stress response?
Kelly has the tendency to interpret and explain negative events as her fault and feel that negative events are just a constant, stable quality in her life. This is called
Pessimistic explanatory style
This attachment style is characterized by the child’s tendency to show clingy behavior and rejection of the parent when she attempts to interact with the child and is thought to occur as a result of the caregivers’ inconsistent level of response to their child.
In this stage of Piaget's theory of cognitive development, the individual understands events and analogies, and are able to perform mathematical operations.
What is concrete operational?
Allan is not putting as much effort into his assignment now that he is working in a group, because his individual performance on the assignment is not being evaluated. This is an example of:
What is social loafing?
The General Adaption Syndrome is a theory that suggests stress responses occur in stages. What are these stages in proper order?
Alarm reaction, resistance, exhaustion
In order to cope with the amount of work you need to do for all your classes, you use a planner to organize, you schedule out time in your days to do work, and you prioritize what needs to be done first. This is called
Problem-focused coping
Protestors at a Pride Parade are demonstrating what type of prejudice/discrimination?
Overt Homophobia