General Terms
Maslow's
Life Stages
Defense Mechanisms
This and That
100

Feeling a need stimulates you to act...

Motivated

100

First (Bottom) level - necessary for life

Physiological

100

Short-term memory declines

Late Adulthood

100

Changing your major in college because you did not enjoy a career path you thought you would

Compensation

100

Psychological disorder in which a person drastically reduces food intake or refuses to eat at all

Anorexia Nervosa

200

Disease that results in death

Terminal Illness

200

Second Level

Safety

200

Most traumatic life stage

Adolescence

200

Retreating to a previous developmental stage where you felt more secure

Regression

200

Leading cause of death in teens

Suicide

300

Lack of something you require or desire

Need

300

Third level

love and affection

300

Move away from self-centered focus and can recognize others

Infancy

300

Transferring feelings about one person to someone else

Displacement

300

Thickening or hardening of arteries that can decrease mental abilities

Arteriosclerosis

400

Development of secondary sexual characteristics

Puberty

400

Fourth level

Esteem

400

Potty Training

Early Childhood

400

Using a reasonable excuse for behavior to avoid the real reason

Rationalization

400

Five Stages of Death and Dying (grief)...IN ORDER

Denial

Anger

Bargaining

Depression

Acceptance

500
Feeling of pleasure or fulfillment

Satisfaction

500

Fifth Level (top)

self-actualization

500

Time of Contentment and satisfaction

Middle Adulthood

500

Placing the blame for one's own actions or inadequacies on someone else rather than accepting responsibility

Projection

500

Psychological disorder that involves vomiting and use of laxatives

Bulemarexia

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