Psychology Final Flashcards
(52 cards)
Which branch of psychology goes ove changes or remaining the same over the course of your life?
Lifespan development/human development
What is the bond called b/w a baby and a caregiver/parent?
Attachement
If Infant is stressed out if parent leaves, but then calms down when they come back?
secure attachment style
How many stages of development of for pregnancy
3: Germinal, Embryonic (8 weeks), Stillbirth (fetus)
What is the stage of development when children become adults?
Adolescence/ Physical event is called puberty
Who came up with parenting styles?
Diana Baumrind
What are the 4 parenting styles?
- authoritative
- authoritarian
- uninvolved
- permissive
Who came up with the 8 stages of the psychosocial development?
Erik Erikson
Who came up with the states of cognitive development?
Piaget
What does Prozac treat?
Depression
- acts as an anti-depressant
What are SSRI/Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors?
Drugs that prevent serotonin from being reuptake in the synaptic cleft
What is an example of a SSRI?
Anti-depressants
- prozac
What does Xanax treat?
Anxiety
What type of therapy is a drug?
biomedical/biological therapy
What branch of psychology studies how social cues affect individual behavior?
social psychology
What is situationism?
The view that our behavior and actions are determined by our immediate environment and surroundings
What is dispositionism?
The view that our behavior is determined by internal factors (attribute of a person such as personality traits and temperament)
- favored in the US
What is the fundamental attribution error?
When we look at other people behavior, we associate it with them. But when we do the same behavior, we associate it with the situation not with ourselves
What is self-serving bias?
Our own behavior (wins or losses). We attribute our wins to our own doing, but we attribute our losses to outside/external factors.
What is internal locus of control?
takes accountability for everything; wins and losses
What is external locus of control?
blames outside factors for everything; wins and losses
What is deindividualization?
You lose your sense of self and take on group beliefs such as conformity
- allows for de-influencing of responsibility
What is the bystander effect?
The more people there are people in a group and someone needs help, the less likely the person will actually receive help
How did Mary Ainsworth contribute to psychosocial development?
Did the strange situation experiment
