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Developmental Psychology
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100
Long, thread-like pairs of genetic material found in every cell.
What is a Chromosome?
100
The way the ego unconsciously protects itself from anxious feelings.
What is a Defense Mechanism?
100
The process of explaining our own and other's behavior.
What is Attribution?
100
An irrational fear of an object or situation in which the person avoids the feared object and which interferes with activities of daily living.
What is a Phobia?
100
"Shock treatment" in which electricity is applied to the brain causing a seizure and often resulting in improvement of symptoms of severe depression.
What is Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT)?
200
The study of mechanisms that switch genes on and off.
What is Epigenetics?
200
Making an excuse for feelings and behavior that are unacceptable to us.
What is Rationalization?
200
When we take credit for our successes but blame our failures on external causes.
What is Self-Serving Bias?
200
A chronic form of depression that lasts for a period of at least 2 years.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
200
Therapy that uses acceptance and unconditional positive regard to support the patient and help him or her figure out feelings and goals.
What is Humanistic Therapy?
300
A baby's inborn predisposition to behave and react in certain ways.
What is Temperament?
300
A basic human drive to achieve our highest potential.
What is Actualization?
300
When you change your opinions to match the opinions of the group around you.
What is Conformity?
300
A disorder involving extreme instability in the sense of self and emotional functioning, frequent mood fluctuations, instability in relationships with recurring anger/rage and extreme fears of abandonment, impulsive behavior, tendency toward self-injury and suicidal behavior.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
300
Type of therapy to help the patient become aware of unconscious conflicts and to gain insight into how these conflicts affect functioning.
What is Psychoanalytic Therapy?
400
Theory that refers to the quality of the mother-baby relationship and how well the baby is able to use mom as an emotional home-base.
What is Attachment Theory?
400
A trait that encompasses being outgoing and happiest in a group.
What is Extraversion?
400
When people tend to think that all members of a different group look or act very similar.
What is Out-Group Homogeneity?
400
An eating disorder involving refusal to maintain normal body weight, restriction of food, fear of gaining weight and distorted body perception.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
400
Therapy that uses the principles of learning theory, such as classical and operant conditioning, to extinguish maladaptive reactions/behaviors and replace with more successful behaviors.
What is Behavioral Therapy?
500
Overly lenient parenting type.
What is Permissive?
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
When a group of people witness someone in trouble but no one steps forward to help.
What is Diffusion of Responsibility?
500
A 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
Therapy to help the patient identify negative thinking patterns that contribute to depression, anxiety and relationship problems, and replace those patterns with more realistic, positive patterns that help the patient resume regular activities.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy?