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The scientific study of ways in which people change, as well as stay the same from conception to death.
What is Developmental Psychology?
Patterns of thought and behavior that make a person react to certain situations in relatively consistent ways is a person's....
What is personality?
The scientific study of psychological disorders.
What is psychopathology?
This model helps us to understand what makes people healthy by recognizing that biology, psychology, and social context all combine to shape health outcomes.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
This when children rely on the facial expressions of others in order to learn how to respond to situations.
What is social referencing?
This term refers to a skill that children acquire when objects continue to exist even when they are temporarily out of sight.
What is object permanence?
This is the “goodie two shoes” part of our unconscious that is used to conform to standard and understand right and wrong.
What is the superego?
What is a conception of a psychopathology that distinguishes the factors that create a risk of illness (diathesis) from the factors that turn the risk into a problem (stress)?
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model
What type of disorders are highly genetic?
Mood Related Disorders
Which defense mechanism matches this definition? Unconsciously blocking unwanted thoughts, memories, feelings, and impulses from entering conscious awareness.
What is denial?
We refer to the bundle of cells in the initial stage of prenatal development as this.
What is a zygote?
A state of passive resignation to an aversive situation that one has come to believe is outside of one’s control is what?
What is learned helplessness?
What is an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme fear of being watched, evaluated or judged by others coupled with extreme avoidance of the situation?
What is social anxiety disorder?
This component of personality in Freud’s psychoanalytic theory that operates according to the pleasure principle.
What is the Id?
This is the first stage of Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development.
What is trust versus mistrust?
This is an automatic pattern of motor responses that are triggered by specific types of sensory stimulation.
What is a reflex?
What defense mechanism matches this definition? An individual redirect emotions, thoughts, or impulses from their original source to a less threatening or more acceptable target.
What is displacement?
What diagnosis is characterized by a loss of contact with reality and a breakdown of the normal functions of the mind, leading to bizarre perceptions?
What is Schizophrenia?
This is the ideal parenting style.
What is a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotional regulation, or behavior that is usually associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupational, and other important activities?
What is a psychological disorder?
This design of study track the same individuals over a period of time to examine the difference that occurs at different time points.
What is the Longitudinal Design?
Gordon Allport created this term and stated that this is our disposition or the way we describe someone.
What is a central trait?
What disorder is typically diagnosed in young children that involves a wide range of symptoms, including blurting out answers in class, fidgeting, difficulty switching task, difficulty with attentional focus?
What is ADHD?
This man created the Four Stages of Cognitive Development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
A standardized clinical assessment tool that consists of a fixed set of questions that a patient answers.
What is a self-report measure.