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| T/F Genes play a role in intelligence, a child's activity level, and how a child responds to a new stimuli |
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| Come from one sperm that fertilizes one egg and then splits, good for twin studies |
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| a no more alike than other siblings, and are not good for twin studies |
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| As you go through brain/cognitive development, you no longer have |
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| grasping and startle reflex, like when you were a baby |
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| Development within a species follows an orderly and specific |
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| Separation anxiety is caused by |
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| the level of development of the child's brain |
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| When a child is not able to mentally change places with people he does not have |
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| the principle of reversibility |
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| Separation anxiety appears at the same time a child learns to grasp |
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| The case of Genie demonstrates |
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| that language is a maturational process |
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| the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory |
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| compares you with others in various occupations |
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| the blocking of goals that we are searching for |
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| the perception that one can't deal with the changes in one's world |
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| distracts others and often gets angry, likely to develop a heart disease, demanding |
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| more flexible than type A |
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| T/F When we are using defense mechanisms we are sometimes not fully aware that we are, we are trying to reduce some threat to ourselves, we often begin believing in the particular distortion that we are using |
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| True, we are protecting our ego |
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| Someone who thinks they're funny, but isn't |
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| has a distorted self-concept |
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| a ceremony that marks a person's adult status |
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| a time for delaying major adult communication, James Marcia believes in this |
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| According to Piaget, formal operations... |
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| allows us to think about problems in an abstract way |
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| Essential to a successful marriage |
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| the personality theory that states that most of what we are is influenced by hidden forces, unconscious, early childhood |
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| a program for the terminally ill |
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| According to Freud, the core of our personality is formed during |
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| the oral, anal and phallic stages |
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| consistent in a variety of situations |
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| According to Freud, this would be the same hand that slaps one's father becomes |
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| being quiet and fearful; causes guilt for doing bad and pride for doing good |
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| realistically moderates between desires and morals; allows the if to express itself safely. |
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| concerned with primitive desires |
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| According to Freud, if you repress hidden desires |
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| they will resurface later on |
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| believing others are plotting against you |
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| During the oedipal complex |
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| we have hostility toward the same sex parent and love for the opposite sex parent |
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| According to Jung, the collective and unconscious includes inherited beliefs that guide behavior |
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| Jung said we adopt these to become who we think we should become, to cover up real feelings, and to be more like the mythical figures in our unconscious. |
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| places more emphasis on social forces |
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| Erikson was more involved with social forces and was more optimistic |
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| do not acknowlegde the unconscious |
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| Skinner believes students went to school everyday |
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| because that got some kind of reward or benefit |
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| believed that modeling demonstrates our ability to think and interpret, and not just respond as other behaviorists suggest |
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| striving to live up to your fullest potential |
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| have the greatest impact on personality |
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| states that the enviornment has the greatest influence on what most psychologists referred to as personality |
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| designed to reveal patterns of answers for different groups of people |
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| designed to predict performance in general |
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| Jim feels hostile towards his best friend, but takes it out on his father by yelling |
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| Nicole feels hostility toward her dad, but in times buries these feelings and forgets about them |
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| Mikes feels hostility toward his mom, but isn't comfortable with this, and so always tells his mom that he loves her |
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| Steve has a difficult time finding a prom date, so he gives up and tells his friends that he cannot afford to go to prom |
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| Amy feels jealous that her boyfriend talked to other girls, so she accuses him of being jealous |
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| general and can happen anywhere |
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| a response to something specific |
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| doing something over and over, like checking twenty times to see if you locked the door |
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| Multiple perosnalities vs. schizophrenia |
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| talk very quickly, experience a flight of ideas, and have dellusions. |
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| extreme mood swings, sometimes hallucinations, often fugue episodes |
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| inappropriate emotions, lost touch with reality |
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| schizophrenias have too much |
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| perssuasion technique, asking for smaller favors that slowly get bigger |
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| Kubler Ross's five stages of grieving |
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| denial, anger, bargaining, depressin, acceptance |
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| two positive alternatives |
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| two negative alternatives |
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| one alternative with both positive and negatives |
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| double approach-avoidance |
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| two alternatives with both positive and negative |
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| According to Piaget, object permanence is gained during |
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| obsessed with sensations and body movement |
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| the highest level of cognitive development |
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| conservation is easily grasped at this stage, but the child still tends to see the world in black and white |
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| designed to explain how other people explain the behaviors of others |
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| says you will hurt someone if you're told to do so |
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| fundamental attribution error |
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| view the disposition not the situation |
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