Pshychology 12-14

Question 1

Any environmental agent that harms a developing fetus. Ex drugs, alcohol, tobacco.

Answer 1

Teratogens

Question 2

Very strict and controlling, lots of rules and physical punishment.

Answer 2

Authority Style

Question 3

Very few rules, little punishment, “Doormats.”

Answer 3

Permissive or Indulgent style

Question 4

Parents set/ Enforce rules…rules are negotiable or flexible.

Answer 4

Authoritative or Responsible style

Question 5

P’s are uninvolved… don’t know what the child is doing, friends, school issues.

Answer 5

Uninvolved

Question 6

Emphasis on social interactions. We have with people in our lives.

Answer 6

Psychosocial Development

Question 7

Jean Piaget

Answer 7

4 stages of cognitive development.
-Sensorimotor
-Proportional
-Concrete operations
-Formal Operations.

Question 8

Ability for abstract thinking is first seen.

Answer 8

Formal Operations

Question 9

Reasons why males are 5x more likely to die

Answer 9

-Family Problems
-Peer Pressure
-Esteem issues

Question 10

Golden years age 65+ and sensory systems will decline

Answer 10

Adulthood

Question 11

Best predictor of cognitive decline is overall physical health

Answer 11

Cognitive Abilities

Question 12

5 stages of grieving

Answer 12

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

Question 13

Id

Answer 13

-Innate-present at birth
-Operates by the pleasure principle.

Question 14

Ego

Answer 14

-Operates by the reality principle
-works as a mediator between the Id and reality and the superego

Question 15

Superego

Answer 15

-Moral branch of personality.
-Conscience>guilt
-Ego ideal>pride

Question 16

Trait approach to studying personality

Answer 16

-Does not explain personality development
-describe an measures personality traits

Question 17

Self-reported measures

Answer 17

you describe yourself ex> MMPI and Myers-Briggs

Question 18

Projective test

Answer 18

Ink blot test and the TAT

Question 19

Primary Appraisal

Answer 19

Ask ourselves, “is this threatening to me”

Question 20

Secondary Appraisal

Answer 20

Ask “do I have the resources to cope.”

Question 22

Hans Selye

Answer 22

General Adaptation

Question 22

Cataclysmic events

Answer 22

impact many people
-9/11
-Natural disasters

Question 22

3 phases of a stress reaction
-Alarm and Mobilization
-Resistance
-Exhaustion

Answer 22

Sydrom

Question 22

Personal Stressors

Answer 22

Death, Losing a job, and Divorce

Question 23

A state of mind where a person concludes that bad things can’t be avoided even if you try so why try?

Answer 23

Learned Helplessness

Question 23

Take action, try to resolve the cause of stress

Answer 23

Problem focused coping

Question 24

Try to change how we feel or how we perceive the problem

Answer 24

Emotion-focused coping

Question 25

Higher rates of stress related illness

Answer 25

Type A persoanlity

Question 26

Lower rates of stress related illness

Answer 26

Type B personality and Hardy