Psychology Midterm Review

His mother returns, he freezes, and then behaves erratically. In fact, he runs away from his mother. Attachment style?

 Studying changes in physical attributes, cognitive skills, moral reasoning, and social behavior across the lifespan. 

Which of the following is a characteristic of a psychological disorder?

What does nurture refer to in the nature vs. nurture debate?

Introspection refers to a process by which a psychologist attempts to examine

________ means that everyone in the population has the same likelihood of being asked to participate in the study.

Patterns of inner experience and behavior are thought to reflect the presence of a psychological disorder if they _____.

An attachment where a one year old is distressed when his mother leaves him and happy to see her when she returns.

 According to Jean Piaget, in what stage do children begin to use abstract thinking processes?

Carissa’s parents let her stay up as late as she wants. Her parents act more like her friends than authority figures.

What area of psychology focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders?

The letters in the abbreviation DSM-5 stand for ________.

Piaget's stage of development where children understand events and they can perform simple mathematical operations.

The benefit of naturalistic observation studies is

Psychology refers to the ________.

According to Vygotsky, which of the following is true about the acquisition of meaning and understanding?

In developmental psychology, there is an increasing interest in researching cognitive changes that occur later in life.

Functionalist psychologists focus on the function of behavior and ________.

 According to William James, what was the true purpose of psychology?

Involves studying prejudice, attraction, how we explain our own behavior versus how we explain the behavior of others.

Which of the following is a feature of a harmful dysfunction?

He believed that lifespan development encompasses eight stages and at each stage we encounter a psycho-social crisis.

 Height and weight are positively correlated. This means that

What does nature refer to in the nature vs. nurture debate?

Madeline's mother hides the cookie under a napkin, but Madeline is not fooled. She knows the cookie is still there.