A humanistic theory of motivation that states that people must progress through levels of universal human needs, from basic survival needs to psychological needs to to the most advanced level of need: self-fulfillment
What is Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
100
The study of physical, mental and social changes through the lifespan.
What is Developmental Psychology?
100
An Austrian neurologist who developed the psychoanalytic theory of personality and development.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
100
The branch of psychology that studies how our thoughts, feelings and behavior are influenced by the presence of other people and by our social environment.
What is Social Psychology?
100
The manual used by psychologists and psychiatrists to diagnose mental disorders.
What is the DSM-5?
200
A theory of motivation developed by Deci and Ryan that states that people need to satisfy three innate and universal psychological needs in order to function well: autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
What is Self-Determination Theory?
200
The study of mechanisms that switch genes on and off; the impact of the mechanisms on behavior and health.
What is Epigenetics?
200
Occurs in the phallic stage in Freud's theory of psychosexual development. The 4-5 year old child is becoming aware of genital sensation.
What is Oedipal complex?
200
When we take credit for our success, but blame our failures on external causes.
What is The self-serving bias?
200
An irrational fear of an object or situation in which the person avoids the feared object and which interferes with daily activities.
What is Phobia?
300
The theory of emotion that states that body signals trigger the perception of emotion. We tremble, breathe rapidly, and have a pounding heart, therefore we feel fear.
What is James-Lange Theory of Emotion?
300
Threadlike pairs of genetic material found in every cell, each containing 1000 or more genes.
What is Chromosome?
300
A basic human drive to achieve our highest potential.
What is Actualization?
300
The tendency of people not to get involved in a problem situation when there are several other people present.
What is the bystander effect?
300
A disorder involving disruptions in memory and personal identity.
What is dissociative disorder?
400
The theory of emotion that states that our cognitive evaluation of of an event triggers our perception of emotion. This theory explains why two people might experience the same event, but has very different emotions as a result.
What is the cognitive apprasal theory of emotion?
400
Children under the age of 7. They are pre-logical. They are egocentric in that they cannot take another person's point of view.They lack the concept of conservation-they don't understand that the physical quantity of a physical substance remains the same even when you change the appearance.
What is Preoperational Stage?
400
The trait that refers to openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
What is the Five-Factor Model?
400
People's obedience to authority figures. People were told they were going to teach a subject by using electric shock. 70% of the participants went to he highest level of shock, despite hearing the learner yell.
What is Milgrim's Obedience Study?
400
One of the psychotic disorder that involves impaired functioning related to severely distorted thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions, disorganized thought and language and emotional disturbance.
What is Schizophrenia?
500
We are voluntarily programmed to believe in certain ways.
What is instinct theory?
500
Developed a theory of psychological development.
Who is Erik Erikson?
500
A 500 item True-False test which measures personality characteristics and is often used in court, employment and clinical situations.
What is the MMPI?
500
A negative emotional state that occurs in response to events that a person sees as beyond his or her ability to cope with.
What is stress?
500
An eating disorder involving refusal to maintain normal body weight, restriction of food, fear of gaining weight, and distorted body perception