Social
when start big and after refusal, accept small
ex : Can you lend me $200…. well, ok, how about a $20.
Door-in-Face
A disorder characterized by offensive, unwanted, repetitive thoughts (obsessions) that preoccupy a person and/or repetitive actions
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
our ability to reason speedily and abstractly
tends to decrease during late adulthood
Fluid intelligence
agents such as virus and drugs that can reach and damage embryo or fetus in utero
Teratogens
An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting
Personality
the more you are exposed to something, the more you will come to like it
Mere-Exposure Effect
an eating disorder in which a person alternates binge eating with purging excessive exercise or fasting
Bulimia Nervosa
a test designed to assess what a person has learned
Achievement tests
One of Piagets Stage in which child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic
Preoperational
A defense mechanism : Thinking and behaving in a way opposite your own unacceptable thoughts and feelings
Reaction Formation
experiments with college students : more than 1/3 of the time the subject went along with the group response although it was wrong
Solomon Asch study
an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn tokens of some sort that can later be exchanged for various privileges or treats
Token Economy
our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills
tends to increase with age
Crystallized intelligence
the developing human organism from about two weeks after fertilization through the second month
Embryo
A test in which people describe what they see in a series of inkblots
Rorschach Test
an expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them
Norm of Reciprocity
psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors
Anxiety Disorder
a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as computation or drawing
Savant Syndrome
One of Kohlberg's stages of moral development - make and keep promises or define morality in abstract terms of justice
Genuineness, acceptance and empathy- enable people to grow and develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
Unconditional Positive Regard
the tendency to recall faces of one’s own race more accurately than faces of other races. Also called the cross-race effect or own-race bias
Other-race Effect
work to increase the availability of certain neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine or serotonin, which elevate arousal and mood
Agonists
the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict;
Predictive Validity
One of Erikson's Stages - family and work dominate, concern for next generation, want to make a contribution to future
Stage 7 Generativity v Self absorption
one of the Big Five Factors responsible, organized, hard-working, goal-directed, and to adhere to norms and rules.
Conscientiousness