Developmental Psych
By age 6 a person’s brain is … of its adult size.
What is 90%?
Long standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways.
What is personality?
Unconscious protective behaviors that aim to reduce one’s anxiety.
What is defense mechanisms?
The concept of someone who is absorbed in their work and loses track of time.
What is flow?
Russian scientist who developed the classical conditioning theory while working with dogs
Ivan Pavlov
The term for any environmental agent that causes damage to the developing embryo or fetus
What is a teratogen?
What is the term used to describe unintentional substitution of 1 word for another word?
What is a Freudian slip?
What is the term for thoughts and feelings about ourselves?
What is self concept?
During an encounter judged as stressful, cortisol is released by the…
What are adrenal glands?
Decrease in a conditioned response
What is extinction?
Kohlberg’s theories of moral development stage that represents the highest level of moral reasoning.
What is ethical principles?
Freud: primitive drives or urges
What is id?
What is the term for the person you actually are?
What is real self?
The last stage of grief
What is acceptance?
The return of a previously extinguished behavior
What is Spontaneous recovery?
The 1st stage of Kohlberg‘s theory. The most basic stage of moral development.
What is avoiding punishment?
Freud: a person learns social rules for right and wrong.
What is superego?
In what type of culture does social harmony and respectfulness exist and the group is more important than the individual?
What is collectivist?
The psychologist who pioneered near death studies and developed the 5 stages of grief.
Who is Elisabeth Kubler Ross?
Adler developed the school of individual psychology. He believed that if a person feels that they lac worth and do not measure up to the standards of others.
What is inferiority complex?
Freud: a person develops the rational part of one’s personality.
What is ego?
What is voluntary behavior with the intent to help other people?
What is Prosocial behavior?
At what stage of Selye’s general adaptation syndrome is a person especially vulnerable to illness?
What is exhaustion?
Carl Jung believed that we all have ancestral memories that are represented by universal themes in various cultures. What is the term for this?
What are archetypes?