Womb to Tomb
This period in prenatal development is when the brain continues to develop, bodily structures are refined, and the fetus grows in length and weight and accumulates fat in preparation for birth.
Fetal Period
Expected standards of conduct, which influence behavior, like when you cover your mouth when you sneeze or refrain from talking in a movie theater.
Social Norms
The mental manipulation of representations of information we encounter in our environments.
Thinking
These people seek to find a “good enough” choice.
Satisficers
Making quick decisions based on our current feelings and emotions.
Affective Heuristic
Harlow’s findings showed that _____ is critical in the socio-emotional infant development.
comforting touch
Neutral mental shortcuts for rapid processing of social information.
Sterotypes
Alcohol affects the brain and spinal cord, so it can cause harm at any time during pregnancy. In this scenario, alcohol is considered what?
Teratogen
Subgoals. Working Backwards. Analogy. Insight.
The 4 steps we use to achieve goals
This is the active and conscious effort to change an attitude through the transmission of a message.
Persuasion
An indulgent parenting style where there are few rules or expectations.
Permissive Parenting
Unjustified behavior towards groups; this behavior stems from prejudice.
Discrimination
A mental shortcut used to reduce the amount of thinking that is needed to make decisions.
Heuristic
According to Gardner, these are not measurable by IQ tests.
Multiple Intelligences
When interpreting our own behavior, we tend to focus on situations; but when interpreting other people’s behavior, we focus on dispositional attributes.
Actor/Observer Bias
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Operational, and Concrete Operational.
Piaget’s Four Stages of Cognitive Development
When a person follows the orders of a person of authority.
Obedience
This is considered the best example of a concept.
Prototype
Thes two factors are essential for psychometric tests.
Reliability and Validity
An uncomfortable mental state due to a contradiction between two attitudes or between an attitude and a behavior.
Cognitive Dissonance
According to Erikson’s theory, adolescents face this, the most fundamental psychosocial crisis.
Identity vs Role Confusion
Why bicyclists pedal faster when they ride with other people than when they ride alone.
Social Facilitation
Availability. Representative. Affective.
Three types of Heuristics
Analytical, practical, and creative intelligences.
Sternberg's Triarchic Theory
People who have bad things happen to them must have done something to deserve it.
The Just-World Hypothesis