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100What is bidirectional?
The idea that developmental psychology is a two way street (for example, children's behavior is influenced by their parents, which in turn influences the parents)
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100What is the Mozart effect?
Belief that listening to classical music will increase a child's intelligence
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100What is intimacy vs. isolation?
According to Erikson, this is when a young adult is developing the ability to maintain personal relationships.
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100What are primary emotions?
Seven emotions believed by some theorists to be cross-culturally universal.
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100What is drive reduction theory?
Motivation to minimize aversive states and achieve a level of psychological or physical homeostasis
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200What are teratogens?
Environmental factors that can harm prenatal development
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200What is the cloth mother monkey?
The surrogate monkey that Harlow's participants preferred.
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200What is indulgent/permissive parenting?
A style where the parents shower their children with affection and use little discipline.
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200What is the James-Lange theory of emotion?
The theory of emotion that emotions result after our bodily reactions to stimuli.
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200What is the Yerkes-Dodson law?
Inverted U-shaped relation between arousal and performance
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300Who is Darwin?
One of the first researchers to carefully log infant development
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300What is insecure- avoidant attachment>
A type of attachment where the infant is indifferent when parents depart and demonstrates little reaction to the parent returning
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300What is imaginary audience?
A concept often noted in adolescence where the individual believes everyone is watching.
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300What is the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion?
A theory stating that when we see a bear while hiking in the forest, the sight of the bear triggers both fear (the emotion) and running (the reaction) at the same time.
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300What is Maslow needs hierarchy?
This theory suggests that we must satisfy physiological needs and needs for safety and security before we can reach self-actualization.
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400What is accommodation?
When a child cannot integrate information with existing knowledge structures this must occur.
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400What is Kohlberg's conventional level of moral development?
Jay decides not to cheat on a test because he doesn't want his parents to be upset. Kohlberg would classify this as....
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400What is mid-life crisis or empty nest syndrome?
A common myth of adulthood
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400What is non-verbal leakage?
An unconscious spillover of emotions into physical behavior.
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400What are incentive theories?
People are motivated to increase or maintain a behavior due to pleasure or external incentives
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500What is sensorimotor?
children at this Piagetian stage lack object permanence.
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500What are conservation tasks?
A type of task that requires children to understand that despite a transformation in the physical presentation of an object, the amount remains the same.
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500What are Kubler-Ross' five stages of death and dying?
1) denial 2) anger 3) bargaining 4) depression 5) acceptance
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500What are some things that make us happy according to psychologists?
For example, marriage, friendship, college, and religion...
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500What is excitement/arousal phase?
Pleasure and physiological changes as part of sexual response cycle
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