Disciplines of Psychology
Medical doctors with a M.D. degrees who prescribe medication to patients
What are psychiatrists?
Anxious-Ambivalent Attachment and Avoidant Attachment are also known as what
What is insecure attachment?
The behavioral characteristics that are fairly well established at birth, such as easy, difficult, and slow to warm up
What is temperament?
Lobe of the brain where the visual cortex is found?
What is occitpital lobe?
This component of a research paper (or empirical article) describes what was found in the study and whether the hypotheses were disconfirmed or confirmed
What is Results?
Branch of psychology concerned with helping people deal with issues most people face (e.g., choosing a career, marrying, etc.)
What is counseling psychology?
The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem, neglecting other important aspects
What is centration?
Any factor (chemical/virus) that can cause a birth defect
What is teratogen?
Part of the brain that controls speech muscles via the motor cortex (hint: found in the frontal lobe)
What is Borca's area?
This component of a research paper (or empirical article) describes the implications and weaknesses of the study
What is Discussion?
Name of psychologist who studies how thinking, feeling, and behaving develop with age and experience
What is developmental psychologist?
A child who understands that a four-legged creature is called a dog. Then, the child encounters a cat and refers to it as a dog until corrected by a parent. After being corrected, the child can distinguish between a dog and a cat. This is an example of...
What is accommodation?
What are the three main stages of prenatal development (in order)?
What is zygote, embryo, and fetus?
What is germinal, embryonic, and fetal?
Part of brain responsible for regulating basic biological needs: hunger, thirst, temperature control
What is the hypothalamus?
The main difference between a Psy.D and a Ph.D
What is research?
Area of psychology in which the psychologists focus on how human behavior is affected by the presence of other people
What is social psychology?
Cognitive framework or concept that organizes and interprets information
What is schema?
The autonomy vs. shame/doubt occurs during which stage of life?
What is early childhood?
Structures in endocrine system that is responsible for secreting hormones
What are glands?
What does ZPD stand for?
What is Zone of Proximal Development?
Name 2 disciplines of psychology and what they are (cannot use developmental and clinical)
Academic: research and teaching
Applied: how to improve products and procedures to solve specific practical problems
Human-factors, social, personality, I/O psych, sports, school/educational
Name each of Piaget's stages and what happens in each stage
Sensorimotor: infants are developing by exploring objects using their senses (sight, touch, taste, smell) and motor activity
Preoperational: children gradually improve in their use of mental images - are able to think about things symbolically
Concrete Operational: show logical, concrete reasoning
Formal Operational: ability to understand theories and abstract ideas and predict possible outcomes of hypothetical problems.
Name each of Erikson's stages and the stage of life they occur in
Trust vs. Mistrust: infancy
Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt: early childhood
Initiative vs. Guilt: childhood/preschool/play age
Industry vs. Inferiority: school age
Identity vs. Confusion: adolescence
Intimacy vs. Isolation: early adulthood
Generativity vs. Self-Absorption (Stagnation): middle adulthood
Integrity vs. Despair: Old age
Name the 4 lobes of the brain and their function
Frontal lobe: controls motor muscle movement
Occipital lobe: controls visual processing
Parietal lobe: registers sense of touch
Temporal lobe: auditory processing
The class average for the first exam
What is 95-100%?