Human Growth and Development
While Freud's stages are described as psychosexual, Erikson's stages are described as this
Psychosocial
The three factors that enhance interpersonal attraction are close proximity, similar beliefs, and
Physical attraction
A therapist who says to a client, "Say whatever comes to mind," is demonstrating
The purpose of establishing group norms is _____
to govern acceptable behavior and group rules
The variable that you manipulate or control in an experiment is the ______
independent variable
This psychoanalyst created a developmental theory that encompasses the entire life span
The notion that behavior must be assessed in the context of the culture in which the behavior occurs
contextualism
When a client projects feelings toward the therapist that the client had previously toward a significant other, this is called
transference
Group therapy initially flourished in the United States due to _____
a shortage of therapists during World War II
When you see the letter P in relation to a test of significance, it means
probability
During a thunderstorm, a child in Piaget's stage of pre occupational thought says, "This rain is following me," which is an example of
Egocentrism
When a counselor speaks of a probable outcome in a case, they are referring to this
the prognosis
Id, ego, superego is to structural theory as ______ is to topographical theory
unconscious, preconscious, conscious
Group cohesiveness refers to ______
The most common measures of central tendency are mean, median, and mode. The mode is _____
the most frequently occurring score
The term "identity crisis" arises from the works of this psychoanalyst
Erik Erikson
Some research suggests that very poor economic conditions correlate very highly with this behavior
aggression
The most controversial aspect of Freud's theory is _____
the Oedipus complex
This is the main distinction between open and closed groups ___
closed groups do not allow new members after it begins
Experiments emphasize parsimony, which means
interpreting the results in the simplest way possible
Kohlberg's three levels of mortality are in this order
preconventional, conventional, post conventional
A statistical norm measures actual conduct, while a cultural norm does this
describes how people act/people's behaviors
Suppression differs from repression in that
repression is automatic or involuntary
One main advantage of closed groups versus open groups is _______
it promotes trust and cohesiveness
When a distribution of scores is not distributed normally, statisticians call this ______
a skewed distribution