Chapter 8
This disorder is associated with a repetitive pattern of binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors such as vomiting or compulsive exercise.
What is bulimia?
Any agent that can negatively effect a developing embryo or fetus.
What is teratogen?
The part of the mind that lies outside the range of ordinary awareness and holds unacceptable urges or memories.
What is unconscious?
Motivated forgetting, according to Freud.
What is repression?
The third of Freud's stages of psychosexual development.
What is phallic?
A desire for external rewards such as money.
What is extrinsic motivation?
Piaget's last stage.
What is formal operations?
The most widely used trait model of personality.
What is the five-factor or "big 5" model of personality?
Piaget developed a theory of what type of development?
What is cognitive?
Knowing and managing your emotions is referred to as this concept.
What is emotional intelligence?
The highest level on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
What is self-actualization?
This type of parenting is associated with low levels of control but high levels of warmth and involvement.
What is permissive?
These traits are considered the building blocks of our personality according to Gordan Allport.
What are central?
In Freud's psychodynamic theory, this structure is known as the "moral compass".
What is the superego?
The part of the brain primarily associated with hunger.
What is the hypothalamus?
According to your textbook, chronic anger can cause this negative impact on our health.
What is coronary heart disease?
Erikson's stage of development that occurs during adolescence.
What is identity vs role confusion?
According to Freud, the ego uses these to prevent anxiety.
What are defense mechanisms?
The common belief among adolescents that their feelings cannot possibly be understood by others.
What is personal fable?
This experiment has been used to measure depth perception in infants.
What is visual cliff?
The 6 universal emotions are; anger, fear, disgust, sadness, happiness and this.
What is surprise?
Kohlberg's highest level of moral reasoning.
What is postconventional?
According to Bandura, these are our personal predictions about our own abilities.
What are efficacy expectations?
This theory states that the attraction to certain goals or objects motivates much of our behavior.
What is Incentive Theory?
The tendency of our bodies to maintain a steady internal state is referred to as this.
What is homeostasis?