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Final Exam
Vocab words for final exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Teratogens | Are agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus curing prenatal development |
| Jean Piaget | Spent his life searching for the answer studied children's cognition |
| Sensorimotor Stage | Babies take in the world through their senses and actions-through looking, hearing, touching, mouthing |
| Critical Period | A time during someone's development in which a particular skill or characteristic is believed to be most readily required |
| Imprinting | The process by which certain animals form strong attachments during early life |
| Authoritative Parenting | They are both demanding and responsive they exert control by setting rules but especially older children |
| Attribution Theory | A quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of someone or something |
| Self-serving bias | Normal tendency to perceive ourselves favorably |
| Internal locus of control | The perception that we control our own fate |
| Stereotype | A generalized (Sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people |
| Peripheral Route to persuasion | Occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues such as the speakers |
| Group Think | The mode of reasoning that occurs when the desire for harmony the decision making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives |
| Denial | a psychoanalytic defense mechanism where an individual unconsciously refuses to acknowledge or accept painful, anxiety-provoking realities or facts |
| Immune suppression | The body's immune system is weakened |
| Psychological Disorder | A syndrome marked by clinically significant disturbance in an individuals cognition, emotion, regulation, or behavior |
| Delusion of Grandeur | A false belief held by any individual where they believe they have exceptional power, wealth, and knowledge |
| Depressive disorder | A mental health condition characterized by persistent sadness, loss of interest in activities |
| Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder | Or (OCD) an Anxiety disorder marked unwanted repetitive thoughts (Obsessions), actions (Compulsions) or both |
| Generalized anxiety disorder | Or (GAD) a disorder when a person is continually tense, apprehensive and in a state of automatic nervous system |
| Health Psychology | A subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine |
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