Psych Vocab Flashcards
A risk factor based on a changeable factor is called what?
Dynamic risk factor
A risk factor that is not changeable is called what?
Static risk factor
Discrimination that is concealed or hidden is called what?
Covert discrimination
What is it called when a client begins to react to the social worker based on patterns of interaction with similar types of people in their past or based on the actual characteristics of the social worker?
Transference
What is it called when a client is forced to move from home?
Displacement
An acute disturbance of awareness and attention, in which attention is impaired and fluctuating, is called ____________
Delirium
What is the tendency of adolescents to develop an inflated opinion of their own importance because they are sure others are observing and thinking about them called?
Personal fable
A generational change from one generation to the next is called ________ __________
secular trend
What is the ability to evaluate the logic of propositions without referring to real-world circumstances?
Propositional thought
The first form of reasoning young adolescents are able to perform, as they start with a hypothesis and then deduce logical inferences
Hypothetico-deductive reasoning
What is an attorney appointed by the court to investigate a case and report its findings and recommendations to the court called?
Guardian ad litem
What is a coalition in a family?
Coalitions are alignments of specific family members against other family members
The phenomena by which a person communicates in ways other than language, like postures or vocalization
Metacommunication
Responses to information that are mediated through perception and evaluation
Information processing
A set of principles that are based on appropriate conduct
Ethical system
