Lifespan Development
An environmental influence or agent that may harm the developing embryo or fetus.
What is a teratogen?
An individual overestimates personality traits and underestimates environmental effects.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
A three-stage theory of stress, including alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
What is the general adaptation syndrome?
A condition characterized by abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is a psychological disorder?
The term used to describe a characteristic style of behavior or disposition that is present from birth.
What is a temperament?
An individual attributes their successes to innate personality traits and their failures to outside variables.
What is the self-serving bias?
The coping style where one changes the stressor.
What is problem-focused coping?
The occurrence of two psychological disorders at the same time.
What is comorbidity?
Name 2 of the 3 types of parenting styles.
What are authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive?
The main conclusion was that social roles are powerful determinants of human behavior.
What was the main conclusion drawn from the Stanford prison experiment?
The two factors of a type A personality that are most predictive of heart disease.
What are anger and hostility?
The classification system used by mental health professionals in the USA.
What is the DSM, or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
This occurs when a child can distinguish among objects, things, and people...
What is accommodation?
We attribute our own actions to situational factors, but the actions of others to personality/disposition.
What is the actor-observer effect?
One's physiological defense system becomes less efficient at fighting illness.
What is immunosuppression?
The cause of a disorder.
What is the etiology?
An infant/toddler believes that when something is not in their field of vision, it doesn't exist anymore.
What is a lack of object permanence?
You don't help someone who has fallen down because no one else is doing anything.
What is the diffusion of responsibility?
The type of stressors that by themselves are no big deal but added up over a period of time become primary sources of stress.
What are daily hassles?
An individual has a predisposition toward a mental illness, but they didn't experience it until they underwent a major life occurrence.
What is the diathesis-stress model?