Development
The most common attachment style.
What is secure attachment?
What is having children?
Three-stage psychological stress response that appears regardless of the stressor that is encountered.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome?
Disorder characterized by chronic excessive worry, with no specific source, across contexts.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
The tendency to do what authority figures tell us to do.
The difference between what we can do on our own and what we can do with support from more advance partners, introduced by Lev Vygotsky.
What is the zone of proximal development?
Stable individual personality differences starting in infancy including activity level, rhythmicity, distractibility, attention, etc. Likely genetic given early emergence and stability.
What is temperament?
Personality trait that is associated with coronary heart disease.
What is Type A personality/cynical hostility?
Model of mental illness etiology that involves predisposition (load the gun) and a triggering event or circumstance (pull the trigger).
What is the diathesis-stress model?
When you assume that someone's behavior is a result of inherent traits of their personality rather than the situation.
What is a dispositional attribution?
Concept that with little time left in their lives, people seek to maximize positive emotional experiences.
What is Future Time Perspective?
What are openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism?
The process where we appraise a potential stressor, asking ourselves "What is at stake?" to determine whether or not it is a stressor.
What is primary appraisal?
A category of schizophrenia symptoms including deficits in or disruptions to emotions and behavior (things that are TAKEN AWAY).
What are negative symptoms?
The tendency for people to be less likely to help a stranger in an emergency situation when other bystanders are present.
What is the bystander effect?
Concept that different skills can be acquired at different times within the same stage; used by Piaget to explain some of the shortcomings of his theory.
What is horizontal decalage?
Model of emotion that states that both physiological arousal and the interpretation of physiological arousal via the cortex contribute to one's emotional experience.
What is the Schacter-Singer two-factor model?
The 3 "Cs" of patient-physician interactions indicating positive health outcomes.
Concept that differentiates personality disorders from other psychological disorders; individuals with PDs lack _______ about their condition.
What is self-awareness/awareness/insight?
The tendency of observers to think of targets who disconfirm stereotypes as "exceptions to the rule."
What is subtyping?
Theory that describes how the regulation of emotion through attachment promotes survival.
What is Bowlby's ethological theory?
Longitudinal study demonstrating that the rank order of five-factor personality traits generally stays the same across the lifespan.
What is the Baltimore Longitudinal Study?
What are nutrition and exercise counseling and education?
An event (or series of events), often happening during childhood, that are often cited as the background or cause for dissociative disorders.
What is trauma?
When a reward decreases someone's intrinsic motivation to do a behavior.
What is the overjustification effect?