Dr. Goodmon's Cumulative Final Exam Review

People with this attributional style attribute good events to internal, permanent, and global causes

Cognitive stage of development in which a child says, “The flattened piece of clay is larger”

Tendency to give slower or faster estimates of how fast a car was going when it crashed based on question verbage

Panic disorder involves an unreasonable fear of some environmental stimulus

Feelings of dissatisfaction when presented with a multitude of options

A disorder characterized by persistent thoughts and the need to perform repetitive acts is known as PTSD

A prediction about future behaviors based on observation and/or theories

The type of memory that is usually associated with the “I know that” attribution

Correlation between variables indicate a relationship

Having a strong mental set can sometimes prevent you from seeing a simple solution

Determining the likelihood of an event based on how readily available other instances are in memory

The tendency to accurately recall words from the beginning of the list

Object Permanence is the understanding that things continue to exist even when they are not seen, heard, or felt

Those with substance disorders commonly suffer from other psychological afflictions; this is known as Comorbidity

The thought process of "knowing all along" or assuming something is common sense

The independent variable is measured and is based on the manipulation of the dependent variable by the investigator

Psychology is the study of the forces that shape and motivate individuals, forming their minds and personality

A mental disorder with the presence of two or more distinct personality systems in the same person at different times

The "way of life of a people" is called culture

What personality type that is strongly, positively correlated with measures of well-being?

Bipolar Disorder is a mood disorder characterized by wild fluctuations from mania to depression

Feeling anxious all the time (including before tests and hanging out with friends) could be indicative of

The artificial deflation of IQ scores in some ethnic groups that results from anxiety/concerns with stereotypes

The DSM-V-TR is where you can find detailed descriptions and symptoms of abnormal behavior

Martin Seligman is considered to be the"Father" of what branch in psychology?

Catatonic Schizophrenia involves motor disturbances (e.g., immobility or wild activity).

Top Down Processing can explain why we miss spelling & grammatical errors when proofreading our own papers

What type of social influence results in conformity and based on the belief that others know more than you?

Schizophrenia is a group of psychotic disorders characterized by a general loss of contact with reality

Over or underestimating the probability of something based on how well the circumstances match

Attachment patterns developed during infancy can translate to similar patterns in adult romantic relationships

The ability to bounce back from adversity and even thrive in the face of a serious challenge

The thought process of discrediting information that goes against one's own thinking

Social skills/competence are included in many African definitions of intelligence but are absent in Western definitions

___ can be described as a "reconstructive process" in which info is actively processed, organized, stored, and retrieved

When you momentarily cannot recognize a person, whom you never see in a grocery store, approaches you in a grocery store

Analytic Thinkers tend to pay attention to objects and their attributes instead of associations

Collectivistic Culture members think an individual’s success is due to forces outside of the individual

___ attributes behavior to stable, personality characteristics instead of dynamic environmental or situational factors

People who are raised in this type of environment are more susceptible to the Mueller-Lyer Illusion

Scientific exploration of what makes life worth living and enabling the conditions for a life worth living

Majority of those in the U.S. and in tribal cultures never reach what stage of moral development?

The relatively flat life satisfaction despite an increase in income and consumption over the last few decades is called?

An attitude with which members of one society judge another society according to their own standards

Developed Ability is the idea that intelligence is determined by biological and environmental factors

Slower at saying a word is printed in red when shown GREEN (printed in red) compared to when shown RED (printed in red)

The ability to delay gratification is indicative of one's emotional intelligence

Who developed the first formal intelligence test designed to measure capacity for individuals to participate in school