Pshychology 12-14 Flashcards
Any environmental agent that harms a developing fetus. Ex drugs, alcohol, tobacco.
Teratogens
Very strict and controlling, lots of rules and physical punishment.
Authority Style
Very few rules, little punishment, “Doormats.”
Permissive or Indulgent style
Parents set/ Enforce rules…rules are negotiable or flexible.
Authoritative or Responsible style
P’s are uninvolved… don’t know what the child is doing, friends, school issues.
Uninvolved
Emphasis on social interactions. We have with people in our lives.
Psychosocial Development
Jean Piaget
4 stages of cognitive development.
-Sensorimotor
-Proportional
-Concrete operations
-Formal Operations.
Ability for abstract thinking is first seen.
Formal Operations
Reasons why males are 5x more likely to die
-Family Problems
-Peer Pressure
-Esteem issues
Golden years age 65+ and sensory systems will decline
Adulthood
Best predictor of cognitive decline is overall physical health
Cognitive Abilities
5 stages of grieving
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Id
-Innate-present at birth
-Operates by the pleasure principle.
Ego
-Operates by the reality principle
-works as a mediator between the Id and reality and the superego
Superego
-Moral branch of personality.
-Conscience>guilt
-Ego ideal>pride
Trait approach to studying personality
-Does not explain personality development
-describe an measures personality traits
Self-reported measures
you describe yourself ex> MMPI and Myers-Briggs
Projective test
Ink blot test and the TAT
Primary Appraisal
Ask ourselves, “is this threatening to me”
Secondary Appraisal
Ask “do I have the resources to cope.”
Hans Selye
General Adaptation
Cataclysmic events
impact many people
-9/11
-Natural disasters
3 phases of a stress reaction
-Alarm and Mobilization
-Resistance
-Exhaustion
Sydrom
Personal Stressors
Death, Losing a job, and Divorce
A state of mind where a person concludes that bad things can’t be avoided even if you try so why try?
Learned Helplessness
Take action, try to resolve the cause of stress
Problem focused coping
Try to change how we feel or how we perceive the problem
Emotion-focused coping
Higher rates of stress related illness
Type A persoanlity
Lower rates of stress related illness
Type B personality and Hardy
