Social Psych
When you help purely to benefit others.
What is altruism?
Freud's three unconscious components making up the human psyche.
What is the id, ego, and superego?
Development theories that go by stages (e.g, Piaget's stages) vs. theories that are gradual and cumulative (e.g, Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems).
What are discontinuous vs. continuous theories of development?
The book is used clinically to diagnose psychological disorders.
What is the DSM-5?
What is the situational perspective?
A defense mechanism involving blaming others for your own feelings.
What is projection?
A theory in which a child’s pleasure-seeking urges are focused on specific zones of the body -- erogenous zones.
What is Freud's Psychosexual Stages?
Characterized by intense, illogical fear of a specific concept, thing, or idea.
What are phobias?
A phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a person in distress when other people are present
What is the bystander effect?
A defense mechanism involving not being able to remember what caused distress.
In the Strange Situations experiment, children with THIS ATTACHMENT STYLE were not too distressed when parents left the room, and were easily comforted by their return.
What is secure attachment?
The technical term for having two or more disorders at once.
What is a comorbidity?
When the purpose or process of an experiment is withheld to observe realistic behavior.
What is deception?
What is the ability to believe in yourself/your competence?
Used to explain cognitive development, the idea that matter can exist in different sizes and shapes (e.g, the same amount of milk can be in a short vs. tall glass).
What is conservation?
Psychological discomfort that arises from holding two or more inconsistent attitudes, behaviors, or thought processes.
What is cognitive dissonance?
The five personality tenants making up the Big Five acronym OCEAN.
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.
Cognitive development is influenced by surrounding culture and language, and that our psychological growth is guided by our mentors
What is Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Development Theory?