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intro to psych

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smoking during pregnancy   stops oxygen flow to child and lowers birth weight and heart rate  
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neonatal visual range   can clearly see faces and objects up to 8-10 inches  
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visual cliff test   measures depth perception  
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gender constancy   realization that gender does not change with age  
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gender role awareness   knowledge of expected behaviors of males and females  
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gender identity   girl knows she's a girl; boy knows he's a boy  
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gender stereotype   general belief about characteristics that men and women are presumed to have  
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imaginary audience   adolescent's delusion that they are constantly observed by others  
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transition from dependence   stable sense of self allows independence  
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midlife crisis   radical change experienced by adults in response to a lack of fulfillment  
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late adulthood lifestyle   reduced social involvement and lower activity levels are more satisgying than staying at home  
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stages of dying   denial anger bargaining depression acceptance  
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Sigmund Freud   best known and most influential psychodynamic theorist  
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superego   moral watchdog over personality and psychosexual stages  
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Carl Rogers   unconditional positive regard  
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unconditional positive regard   full acceptance and love regardless of one's behavior  
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Eysenck definition of psychoticism   describes people characterized by insensitivity and uncooperativeness at one end and warmth, tenderness, and helpfulness at the other end  
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Erik Erikson   adults 25 to 60 need to establish a sense of generativity by remaining productive and creative  
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)   uses interpretation of picture to understand personality  
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Rorschach Test   uses ambiguous inkblots to understand personality  
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cognitive social learning   the way people think about, act on, and respond to their environment  
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mental process   center of personality  
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Oedipus complex   boy's sexual attachment to mother and jealosy of father  
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stress   experienced in pleasant and unpleasant situations  
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conflict   the need to choose between two incompatible demands  
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Kurt Lewin   avoidance/ avoidance conflict theory  
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avoidance/ avoidance conflict   theory of being repelled by two undesirable choices, with potential urge to escape  
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most effective way to cope   compromise goals during conflict  
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defensive coping   denial and displacement  
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denial   refusal to accept a painful or threatening reality  
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displacement   shifting repressed motives and emotions from original object to substitute object  
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frustration   caused by delays, lack of resources, losses and failures  
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PTSD   episodes of anxiety, sleeplessness, and nightmares resulting from some disturbing past event  
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coronary heart disease   anger, hostility, and depression increase risk  
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general adaption syndrome   Hans Seyle adapted three stages of alarm reaction, resistance, and exhaustion  
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fight or flight response   release of stress hormones in a dangerous situation causing increase in heart rate, blood pressure, respiration and perspiration  
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type A   respond to life events with hostility, urgency, and impatience  
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type B   respond to life events with a laidback, easygoing approach  
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percent of deaths related to human behavior   fifty  
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prejudice   more associated with attitude  
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discrimination   more associated with behavior  
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collectivist versus individualist cultures   more likely to help others in minor and urgent situations  
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more bystanders   less likely that person in need will be helped  
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altruism   helping others without expecting anything in return  
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conformity   voluntary yielding to social norms, even at the expense of personal preference  
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compliance   to change behaviors at someone's request  
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personal contact   the most effective method of changing someone's opinion  
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frustration aggression   theory that frustrated people turn anger from proper target to target that is safer to attack  
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unfair relationship   giver feels cheated and gainer feels guilty  
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discrimination   unfair act taken toward an entire group of people or individual members of that group  
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self-serving bias   to flip the results to complement yourself for efforts you did not invest  
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small group size   more productive  
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