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developmental psych
exam #3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| puberty in men vs. women | women early- negative response men early- positive response women late- positive response men late- negative response |
| Harry Harlow | Monkey preferred soft mom over food. Attachment based on needs for safety and security. |
| Mary Answorth 4 attachment patters | secure attachment, avoidant attachment, ambivalent attachment, disorganized-disoriented attachment |
| secure attachment | children use the mother as a kind of home base and are at ease when she is present, upset when she leaves. |
| avoidant attachment | children do not seek proximity to their mother; after mom leaves, they avoid her when she returns. |
| ambivalent attachment | children display a combination of positive and negative reactions to their mothers. |
| disorganized-disorientated attachment | children show inconsistent, often contradictory behavior. |
| gender | NOT biological sex |
| heterosexual | being attracted to the opposite sex |
| homosexual | being attracted to the same sex |
| bisexual | being attracted to both sexes |
| universal emotions | happy, sad, anger, disgust, fear, surprise |
| when we do good things to benefit others, we are engaging in what? | prosocial behavior |
| 3 levels of moral development | pre conventional morality, conventional morality, post conventional mortality. |
| when you have certain attachment styles as a child, what does it affect? | how you interact as a adult. |
| why might early marital conflict occur? | it's the honeymoon stage, then you have the expectation that it will continue. ALL OF THE ABOVE |
| midlife crisis | realization that you're not as far as you'd like to be. |
| self-awareness | having a level of awareness of how you're behaving and interacting with people (emotional intelligence) |
| empathy | understanding where someone is coming from when they have an emotional reaction to something. |
| transgender | having a biological sex you're born with but identify with another gender. |
| amydala | linked to emotions |
| hippocampus | linked to memory |
| what is the largest group that exhibit suicidal thoughts? | elderly and preteens to young adulthood. |
| 3 necessary components to love | intimacy, passion, decision/commitment |
| temperament | usually born with, enduring levels of arousal and emotionality that are characteristic of an individual. |
| which age range is the most emotional stage of life? | adolescence (preteen) |
| what is it called when women are called a whore and men are looked up to when having a lot of sexual partners? | double standard. |
| social referencing | first occurs around 8 to 9 months, intentional search for cues |
| temperament | a child's early-appearing variation in emotional responses and reaction to the environment. |
| easy babies | positive approach to new situations, adaptations, positive mood, not intensely influences by environmental stimuli. |
| difficult babies | withdrawal from new situations, slow adaptability to environment, negative mood, intense reaction to environmental stimuli, may also be colic. |
| slow-to-warm babies | slow adaptability to environment, may withdrawal from new situations but low intensive response to environment, tend toward a negative mood. |
| inconsistently categorized babies | show inconsistency between adaptive and maladaptive, sensitivity, and mood responses. |
| preschoolers gender expectations | males- competence, independence, forcefulness, competitiveness females- warmth, expressiveness, nurturance, submissiveness |
| cohabitation | couples living together without being married. |
| successful married partners | show affection, communicate with respect and appreciation, experience social homogamy, hold similar interests, agree on distribution . of roles, love languages. |
| homogamy | the tendency to marry someone who is similar in age, race, education, religion, and other basic demographic characteristics. |
| oedipus complex | describes a child's feelings of desire for his or her opposite-sex parent and jealousy and anger towards his or her same-sex parent. |
| citation | last name, first initial. Title. Journal Name, Volume [italics]. Issue #. Pages. |
| in-text citation | (last name, year.) |
| what makes a marriage work? | show affection, communicate without negativity, social homogamy, love languages, agreement on distribution of roles, hold similar interests, perceive themselves as part of an interdependent couple. |
| 5 steps of processing death | denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. |