Unit 3 and 4 Graded Quiz 2

Flashcards for reviewing key vocabulary and concepts from PSYC290 Units 3 & 4.

Set Point (Body Weight)

A person's natural point of stability in body weight.

Subjective Well-Being

An individual's personal perceptions of their overall happiness and life satisfaction.

Gender Disparities (Casual Sex)

Males are more likely to agree to casual sex than females.

Lesbian

Term used by a homosexual woman to describe her sexual orientation.

Homeostasis

A state of physiological stability.

Ekman's Fundamental Emotions

There are six fundamental emotions that almost everyone agrees on.

Evolutionary Theories of Emotion

Diversity of non-primary emotions results from blends and variations in intensity of primary emotions.

Obesity Assessment (Preferred Measure)

Body mass index is preferred by experts to assess obesity.

Activity Level of Canadian Children (Statistics Canada, 2015)

Canadian kids are spending two-thirds of their waking hours being sedentary.

Thematic Apperception Test

A type of projective test.

Affiliation Motive

Joining a lot of clubs is expected of someone with a strong affiliation motive.

Expectancy-Value Model of Motivation

Ashley, who usually gets good grades, for an exam worth 40 percent of her grade is most motivated to study.

Incentive Value of Success

Increased when professor announces the top paper will earn a prize.

Masters and Johnson Research (Sexual Response)

Peter will be relatively unresponsive to sexual stimulation for a period of time following his orgasm.

Polygraphs

Polygraphs can detect emotionality that accompanies lying some of the time, but with a high error rate.

Schachter's Two-Factor Theory of Emotion

"Her racing pulse means she is happy because she interprets this as an enjoyable situation."

Achievement Motivation (Lacking Characteristic)

Tendency to seek immediate gratification.

Evolutionary Understanding of Obesity

It is the result of adaptations to conserve energy, which are not needed in an environment with constant access to food.

James-Lange Theory of Emotion

Different patterns of autonomic activation lead to the experience of different emotions.

Arcuate Nucleus of the Hypothalamus

Brain region where you expect to find neurons that are sensitive to changes in blood glucose.

Development (Psychological Definition)

The sequence of age-related changes that occur as a person progresses from conception to death.

Intimacy vs. Isolation

Psychosocial crisis in early adulthood based on establishing close, personal relationships with others.

Early Maturation

Associated with greater risk for eating disorders in both males and females.

Assimilation (Piaget)

Interpreting new experiences in terms of existing mental structures without changing them.

Irreversibility

The inability of a child to mentally 'undo' something.

Prefrontal Cortex

Area of the brain that appears to be the last to fully mature.

Concrete Operational Stage

Stage of development when children demonstrate a decline in egocentrism and a mastery of conservation.

Self-Socialization (Cognitive Theories of Gender-Role Development)

Learning to classify oneself as male or female.

Embryonic Stage

Second through eighth weeks of prenatal development.

Self-Socialization

Emphasized by cognitive theories of gender role development.

Comfort (Harlow's Attachment Studies)

Most important factor for attachment between infant monkeys and their substitute mothers.

Erikson's Psychosocial Stages Theory (Shortcoming)

Like many stage theories, it pays little attention to explaining individual differences.

Attachment (Influence of Parenting Styles)

It develops as a result of the style of interactions between parent and child.

Sensorimotor Stage

Typically, the stage of cognitive development when individuals are concerned with the crisis of trust versus mistrust.

Culture Influences Behaviour

Rates of secure and insecure attachment vary across different cultures.

Hierarchical Classification Problems

A 5-year-old boy tells you that his kindergarten class has more boys than children.

Separation Anxiety

Macy (15-month-old) will show more distress than Wade (3-month-old) when realizing their mother has left.

Fluid Intelligence

Has declined over time, but Bernard's crystallized intelligence has remained stable.

Initiative versus Guilt

Five-year-old Stefan gets along well with his parents and siblings, has self-confidence, and believes that he is a good person.

Attempted Suicides

Adolescent females have the highest rate of attempted suicides.

Darwin's Evolutionary Theory

Emotions evolved to improve chances of survival and reproduction.

Schachter's Two-Factor Theory

Emotions arise from the individual's assessment of their surroundings in response to their physiological arousal.

Evolutionary Theory (Scott)

He felt threatened by the strangers and his ANS kicked in to help him fight or flee the situation.

Piagetian Stage of Cognitive Development (Tim)

Preoperational Period: Tim thinks that the ice has been taken out and replaced which shows that he does not understand conservation.

Piagetian Stage of Cognitive Development (Steve)

Concrete Operational Stage: Steve understands conservation.

Piagetian Stage of Cognitive Development (Jack)

Formal Operation Stage: methodical problem-solving approach.