Prenatal stage in which the fertilized egg undergoes a two week period of rapid cell division.
What is the Zygote?
100
The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.
What is Object Permanence?
100
An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting that can have an influence on behavior.
What is Personality?
100
A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports.
What is a Trait?
100
All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in response to the question, "Who am I?"
What is Self-Concept?
200
Examines our physical, cognitive, and social development across the lifespan.
What is Developmental Psychology?
200
The age at which a baby can survive outside of the uterus.
What is Age of Viability?
200
Freud's structure of the mind that operates on the reality principle.
What is the Ego?
200
The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.
What is Reciprocal Determinism?
200
Repetitive behaviors or mental acts a person feels driven to perform in response to obsessions.
What are Compulsions?
300
Issue of Developmental Psychology that focuses on how our genetic inheritance interacts with our experiences to influence our development.
What is Nature vs. Nurture?
300
Level of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development in which individuals develop morality to affirm agreed-upon rights and personal ethic principles.
What is Post-Conventional Level?
300
The principle that the id operates on which seeks immediate gratification.
What is the Pleasure Principle?
300
The perception that chance or outside forces determine one's fate.
What is External Locus of Control?
300
Responsiveness decreases with repeated presentation of the same stimulus.
What is Habituation Technique?
400
Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
400
Piaget's developmental stage in which children develop the ability to think logically but concretely and gain an understanding of conservation.
What is Concrete Operational Stage?
400
Defense mechanism which involves transforming frustrated id impulses into more socially acceptable forms of behavior.
What is Sublimation?
400
Overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders.
What is the Spotlight Effect?
400
Parenting style that gives children the greatest sense of control because parents impose rules but remain responsive, explaining rules with younger children and negotiating with older children.
What is Authoritative Parenting Style?
500
Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.
What are Teratogens?
500
Occurs when a teratogen leaves chemical marks on DNA that switch genes abnormally on or off
What is Epigenetic Effect?
500
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
What is Unconditional Positive Regard?
500
The current approach to psychological disorders which studies how biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors interact to produce specific psychological disorders.
What is the Biopsychosocial Approach?
500
One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills that tends to increase until very old age.