Consciousness
This altered state of consciousness involves temporary paralysis right before falling asleep or waking up.
What is sleep paralysis?
This specific research design follows the same group over long periods of time and is often using developmental research.
What is a longitudinal design?
Researchers conceptualize stress as a stimulus, a response, and this.
What is a transaction?
Comparing yourself to someone “better” is this type of comparison.
What is upward social comparison?
This model of personality describes personality as enduring predispositions guiding behavior.
What is the trait model?
Across the life span, this group of people requires the most sleep.
Who are newborns?
This term describes the tendency for children to actively choose or create environments that align with their genetic predispositions.
What is niche picking?
This repetitive dwelling on distress is usually ineffective as a coping strategy.
What is rumination?
The Salem witch trials illustrate this mass phenomenon.
What is mass hysteria?
According to Maslow, these needs come first.
What are physiological needs (food, water, shelter, sleep)?
This is the most widely used and abused drug in society today.
What is alcohol?
During this prenatal stage, the embryo develops limbs, organs, and facial features.
What is the embryonic stage?
The MAOA gene combined with maltreatment is an example of this.
What is gene–environment interaction?
This field of psychology studies of how people influence others’ behavior, beliefs, and attitudes – both for good and bad
What is social psychology?
This five-trait system includes openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
What is the Big Five?
This sleep disorder involves sudden, unexpected onset of sleep.
What is narcolepsy?
Training wheels → running alongside → independent riding is an example of this Vygotskian support.
What is scaffolding?
This assessment is a relatively new way to measure stress. It measures responses to events in the natural environment on a real-time basis and can be programed on smartphones or other technological devices to prompt people to report what they’re thinking feeling, and doing on a random or predetermined basis.
What is ecological momentary assessment (EMA)?
Losing your identity and behaving atypically in groups refers to this.
What is deindividuation?
Directives and paradoxical requests belong to this therapy approach.
What is Strategic Family Therapy?
This stage of sleep features vivid dreams and brain activity resembling wakefulness.
What is REM sleep (Stage 5)?
The yogurt example (20% fat vs. 80% fat-free) illustrates this cognitive bias.
What is the framing effect?
This term refers to to the study of the relationship between the immune system and the nervous system.
What is psychoneuroimmunology?
Assuming someone is lazy because they’re late reflects this attribution error.
What is fundamental attribution error?
The modern psychiatric era began with this 1950s medication.
What is chlorpromazine (Thorazine)?