Basic Definitions
The scientific study of the ways in which people change as well as stay the same from conception to death.
What is developmental psychology?
What is an organisms inital stage of prenatal development called?
What is a Zygote?
According to Freud, the mind's three components are?
The ego, id, and superego
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?
True/False: Our personality is stable and will never change.
False
Patterns of thought and behavior that make a person react to certain situations in relatively consistent ways.
What is Personality?
What is an example of a teratogen?
Alcohol, drugs, agrochemicals, psychiatric medications, etc.
The part of our mental life that influences our thoughts, feelings, and actions that we cannot directly observe and of which we are unaware.
What is the unconcious?
This disorder is charcterized by sadness, emptiness, anhedonia, reduced motivation, and increased tiredness.
What is depression?
What is Erikson's first stage of psychosocial development?
Trust vs. Mistrust
A state of passive resignation to an aversive situation that one has come to believe is outside of one's control is what?
Learned Helplessness
An automatic pattern of motor responses that are triggered by a specific type of sensory stimulation are what?
Reflexes
A standardized clinical assessment tool that consists of a fixed set of questions that a patient answers.
A self-report measure
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?
ADHD
The component of personality in Freud’s psychoanalytic theory that operates according to the pleasure principle.
What is the Id?
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, an other important activities?
A psychological disorder
Relying on the facial expressions of others in order to learn how to respond to situations is known as?
Social Referencing
Which defense mechanism is when a person is unconsciously blocking unwanted thoughts, memories, feelings, and impulses from entering conscious awareness?
What is repression?
What type of disorders are highly genetic?
Mood related disorders.
What is the ideal parenting style?
Authoritative
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?
Who created the Four Stages of Cognitive Development?
Jean Piaget
Gordon Allport created this term and stated that this is our disposition or the way we describe someone.
What is Central Trait?
A diagnosis characterized by the loss of contact with reality and breakdown of the normal functions of the mind, leading to bizarre perceptions.
Schizophrenia
The 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?