Exam 3 Flashcards
accommodation
The Process whereby the eye maintains a clear image on the retina
Agreeableness
A dimension of personality,
Involving qualities such as:
Softherated
Trusting
helpful
aging
ambivalent
Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone
amygdala
Located at the tip of each horn of the hippocampus,
Plays central role in emotional processes
Especially formation of emotional memories
animism
Belief that objects, places and creatures possess a distinct spiritual essence
assimilation
The process of applying a schema to novel stimuli
attachment
The emotional bond with a primary caregiver
attention and self concept
A person’s explicit knowledge of their own behaviors, traits, and other personal characteristics
avoidant
Attachment style:
Not distressed when caregiver leaves and don’t respond when caregiver returns
biological bases of personality
Bowlby
Cannon-Bard
Cognitive development
concrete operations.
conducting research on sexuality
conflict resolution
conscientiousness
conservation
cultural tool development.
defense mechanisms
disorganized
ego
egocentrism.
emotion
extroversion
Freud
general adaptation syndrome
habituation
happiness and income
happiness and marriage/divorce
happiness and parenthood
Harlow
id
Imitate facial expressions
Imprinting
Infant cognition
internal working model
introvert.
James-lange
joint attention.
marital satisfaction over the life span
married people and happiness
mother’s sensitivity and responsiveness.
neuroticism
object permanence.
Openness to experience
Optimism
Personality
personality across the lifespan
person-situation controversy
Piaget
Piaget’s contributions
pleasure principle
predictors of quality child care
preoperations
projective tests
quality of daycare
Schacter-Singer
schema
Seattle Longitudinal Study
Secure attachment
Self complexity
self-concept regulating affect
social relationships in late life
source of conflict
storm and stress
strange situation
substantive complexity of work
superego
temperament
teratogen
Vygotsky
zone of proximal development