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Psychology Def.
Week 4-6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| James-Lange Theory | Perceive external stimulus leads to psychological arousal and this further leads to emotion |
| Need | Deprivation that energizes the drive to eliminate/reduce the deprivation |
| Acquired Immune Deficiency (Aids) | Sexually transmitted disease caused by HIV which destroys the body's immune system |
| Asexual | A person who experiences lack of sexual attraction to others or has no sexual orientation |
| Gender | Social and cultural beliefs and expectations about what it means to be a boy/man or a girl/woman and what kinds of behaviors and roles indication masculinity/femininity |
| Pansexual | Person whose sexual attraction doesn't depend on sex, gender or gender identity of others |
| Pedophilic Disorders | Pedophilic disorder in which an adult or older adolescent sexually fantasizes about/engages in sexual behavior with individuals who have not reached puberty |
| ID | Freudian structure of personality consisting of unconscious drives; individual's reservoir of sexual energy |
| Ego | Freudian structure of personality that deals with demands of reality |
| Superego | Freudian structure of personality that serves as the harsh internal judge of behavior; conscience |
| Development | Pattern of continuity and change in human capabilities that occurs throughout life; growth and decline |
| Authoritarian Parent | Restrictive, punitive style in which the parent exhorts the child to follow parent's direction |
| Authoritative parent | Parenting style that encourages child to be independent but still places limits and controls the behavior |
| Estrogen | Group of steroid hormones which promote development and maintenance of female characteristics of the body |
| Nature | Person's biological inheritence, especially genes |
| Nurture | Individual's environmental and social experiences |
| Puberty | Period of rapid skeletal and sexual maturation that occurs mainly in early adolescence |
| Anorexia Nervosa | Eating disorder that affects retention of new info |
| Emotion | Feeling, affect, that can involve physiological arousal, conscious experience, and behavioral expression |
| Instinct | Innate biological pattern of behavior that is assumed to be universal throughout a species |
| Humanistic Perspective | Theoretical views of personality that stress a person's capacity for personal growth and positive human qualities |
| Individual Psychology | Adler's view that people are motivated by purposes and goals and that perfection, not pleasure, is the key motivator in human life |
| Personality | Pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adopts to the world |
| Rosharch Ink Blot Test | Famous projective test that uses indivdiual's perception of inkblots to determine their own personality |
| Subject well-being | erson's assessment of their own level of positive affect relative to negative affect and an evaluation of their life in general |
| Oedipus Complex | Freudian belief that a boy's intense desire to replace his father lies in enjoying the affection of his mother |
| Type A | luster of characteristics: Excessively competitive, hard-driven, imatient, and hostile-related to a higher incidence of heart disease |
| Type B | Being relaxed and easygoing; lower incidence of heart disease |
| Aggression | Behavior intended to harm another |
| Conformity | Change in a person's behavior to coincide more closely with a group standard |
| Prejudice | Unjustified negative attitude toward an individual based on their membership in a group |
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