The tendency of the body to maintain a steady state.
What is homeostasis?
100
A harmful agent that can cause birth defects
What is a teratogen?
100
It is the reasonably stable pattern of emotions, motives, and behavior that distinguish one person from another.
What is personality?
100
A demand made on an organism to adapt, cope, or adjust.
What is stress?
100
The hypothesis that states that facial expressions can affect our emotional states (e.g., People who smile will report feeling more positive emotional states).
What is the facial feedback hypothesis?
200
Feeling states that involve physiological, behavioral, and cognitive components.
What are emotions?
200
The understanding that objects and events continue to exist even when they cannot directly be seen, heard, or touched
What is object permanence?
200
This is a reasonably stable element of personality that is inferred from behavior.
What is a trait?
200
This type of stress can be healthful or good for you.
What is eustress?
200
The parenting style that describes parents who are strict but warm. They demand mature behavior but use reason rather than force to discipline.
What is authoritative parenting?
300
A hypothetical state that activates a person toward a goal
What is a motive?
300
The inability to distinguish between one’s own perspective and someone else’s perspective.
What is egocentrism?
300
This "debate" states that behavior is not only influenced by personality variables, but is also heavily influenced by the situation we are in.
What is the person-situation debate?
300
The feeling of being torn in two different directions by opposing motives.
What is conflict?
300
In this type of culture, people tend to define themselves in relation to the group they are a part of.
What are collectivist culture?
400
Motivation based on internal factors such as primary needs (e.g., food, shelter)
What is intrinsic motivation?
400
He was the theorist who believed that development continues from birth to death, and that in each stage of development, there is a developmental task or life crisis that must be met/resolved. Some of his stages include trust vs. mistrust and autonomy vs. shame and doubt
Who is Erik Erikson?
400
A persistent expression of esteem for the value of a person regardless of their behavior.
What is unconditional positive regard?
400
They include a sense of humor, positive self-efficacy beliefs, and psychological hardiness.
What are psychological moderators of stress?
400
This is part of Freud's 3-part personality structure. It works off the "pleasure principle", is instinctual, and exists completely outside of conscious awareness.
What is the id?
500
Motivation based on external incentives, such as rewards and punishment.
What is extrinsic motivation?
500
Kohlberg's moral stage of development in which people base judgment of right or wrong solely on the consequences of the behavior.
What is Kohlberg's preconventional stage?
500
In this type of personality testing, there are no right or wrong answers. You are presented with ambiguous stimuli onto which you project your own personality to make the response.
What is projective personality testing?
500
This lowers immune system functioning and interferes with the formation of antibodies.
What is stress?
500
According to Freud, this part of our mind holds unacceptable feelings and desires, and lies outside of our conscious awareness.