Human Development Across the Life Span
(Ch 10)
(Ch 10)
Emotional reactions to stressful events that disrupt the hormonal balance needed for healthy prenatal development.
What is stress?
A music subscription service offers free streaming for 30 days, then $15 per month after that.
What is foot-in-the-door technique?
After Rafael laughs at Jeff's bad haircut, Jeff angrily punches Rafael in the face.
What is aggression?
The fitness of a defendant's capacity to stand trial.
What is competency?
The type of professional Kyle should see if he wants to be prescribed a mood stabilizer.
What is a psychiatrist?
These "factors" that include regular exercise, lower cardiovascular risk factors, and active engagement with friends and family.
What are protective factors?
The jury cares more that they agree with each other more than whether they have made the right decision about the case.
What is groupthink?
Benito plans to attend university in the fall, but before classes are scheduled to begin, he learns he needs another elective course.
What is frustration?
Carla's mood has become elevated. She is impulsive, feels invincible, requires very little sleep.
What is a manic episode?
When asked about his recent breakup during his therapy session, Tim jokingly responds, "I finally freed myself from that ball and chain...ha!"
What is resistance?
Defines the typical age at which individuals display various behaviors and abilities.
What are developmental norms?
Claude generally assumes that people are largely responsible for the things that happen to them.
What is fundamental attribution error?
You want to go to prom with someone your friend has a crush on. You really like this person, but you also don't want to hurt your friend's feelings.
What is approach-avoidance conflict?
A disorder characterized by turbulent relationships marked by fears of abandonment.
What is borderline personality disorder?
Margo's therapist suggests she watch her friends to develop better social skills.
What is modeling?
This condition accounts for 60-80% of all cases of dementia.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
Jennifer feels conflicted because she knows smoking is bad for her health, but she smokes cigarettes daily.
What is cognitive dissonance?
Patricia felt a lot better after using the punching bag at the gym.
What is catharsis?
What is concordance rate?
Yolanda recently started therapy with a female therapist who is 10 years younger than her. Yolanda thinks her new therapist is 'just so cute.' She asks her therapist personal questions and gives advice in the same way she does her younger sister.
What is transference?
This develops when a child recognizes that objects continue to exist even when they are no longer visible.
What is object permanence?
Kelly strongly believes that people convicted of child harm should serve prison time.
What is an explicit attitude?
The "A," "B," and "C" of Ellis' Rational Thinking.
What are activating event, belief system, and consequence?
The average age of onset for major depressive disorder.
What is 30-35?
The term used to describe drawing from two or more systems of therapy instead of committing to just one system.
What is eclecticism?
The researcher who studied infant attachment by observing infant rhesus monkeys.
Who is Harry Harlow?
The percentage of participants who administered all 30 levels of shock to others in Milgram's experiments in the 1960's.
What is 65%?
The percentage of people who die from tobacco-related diseases.
What is 66%
The average percentage of schizophrenia patients who report auditory hallucinations.
What is 75%?
The process by which a behaviorist helps a person to weaken a conditioned stimulus that creates a conditioned response.
What is systematic desensitization?