Thinking & Intelligence
What is confirmation bias and belief perseverance?
The stage of prenatal development in which the organism is most susceptible to damage by teratogens.
What is the embryonic stage?
The part of the personality according to Freud that utilizes defense mechanisms and operates on the reality principle.
What is the ego?
Solomon Asch's study on visual judgment was actually a study on this area of social psychology.
What is conformity?
While the DSM-5 reliably classifies disorders, provides a common language for discussing disorders, and meets criteria for payment of therapy, this is the major weakness of this manual.
What is the tendency for normal behavior to fit diagnostic criteria?
Connecting 9 black dots with 4 straight lines without overlapping lines or lifting your pencil was an example of this.
What is fixation in problem solving?
The term in human development for a type of speech used to promote infant language learning involving short sentences, higher pitch and exaggerated intonation.
What is parentese?
The two personality theorists who believe that people are inherently good and naturally motivated to reach their human potential.
Who are Maslow and Rogers?
When a university calls its alumni and asks for a $10,000 donation, but settles for a $100 donation they are using this compliance technique.
What is the door-in-the-face technique?
The 3 types of anxiety disorders featured in chapter 10.
What are Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder and Specific Phobias?
Directions for putting together a furniture item is an example of this problem solving strategy.
What is an algorithm?
Marcia's identity status that is associated with high levels of anxiety.
What is moratorium?
The traits measured by the Big Five.
What are (OCEAN) openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism?
The presence of this caused conformity and obedience in Asch's and Milgram's experiment to decrease dramatically.
What is the presence of one objector?
Repeated washing one's hands is known as what characteristic of what disorder?
What is compulsion in OCD?
Sally receives a semester by semester course schedule for achieving her goal of a graphic design degree from RMCAD. This is a good example of what type of heuristic?
What is a means-end analysis?
One of Baumrind's 4 parenting styles that is associated with the most positive developmental outcomes for children in any culture.
What is authoritative parenting?
The personality inventory that is used for clinical diagnosis.
What is the (MMPI) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory?
This concept plays a role in both social loafing and bystander effect.
What is diffusion of responsibility?
When an individual with schizophrenia suffers a loss of speech, emotion, or social interaction he or she is displaying this type of symptom.
What are negative symptoms?
The only intelligence theorist from the chapter that did not base his theory on specific abilities that make up intelligence?
Who is Spearman?
The 4 factors that account for differences in how a teratogen may impact prenatal organisms differently.
What is DNA of mother & infant, dose of the teratogen, age of the organism at time of exposure and presence of additional teratogens?
The Rorschach Inkblot Test and Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) are examples of these.
What are Projective Personality Tests?
If you believe that the subjects in Milgram's experiment that were willing to administer a lethal shock to the learner were sadistic individuals you are suffering from this type of attribution.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
Therapy that is based in genuineness, empathy, and unconditional positive regard.
What is Roger's Client-Centered Therapy?