Psy test 3

Conservation

A mother gives her 3 year old and her 4 year old kids chocolate milk in identically shaped glasses to avoid conflict over who has more. The mother is showing her awareness if her children's difficulty with the concept of

Accommodation

According to Piaget, ___________ occurs when individuals adjust their schemas to new information

Sexual orientation

An individual's ________ refers to the direction of his or her erotic interests.

Concepts

Are mental categories that are used to group objects, events, and characteristics

intristic motivation

Courtney reads psychology books because she is fascinated by the subject. She really enjoys learning about new approaches to psychology. In this scenario, Courtney is being driven by

Learned association

Edna loves the sweet tea served at McDonald's. Whenever she sees the famous "Golden Arches," she drives right in and orders a cup of sweet tea. This best illustrates the effect of ____ on her eating behavior.

Pro social behavior

If tony shares his toys with his little sister because he is afraid of being punished, he is reasoning at the ______ level of moral development

Gender schema

Is a mental framework for understanding what it means to be male or female in one's culture

Reliability

Is define as the extent to which a test yields a consistent, reproducible measure of performance

Convergent thinking

Produces the single best solution to a problem

Resilience

Refers to a person's ability to recover from or adapt to difficult times

infinite generativity

Refers to the ability to produce and endless number of meaningful sentences

Homeostasis

The body's tendency to maintain an equilibrium, or steady state, is known as

Reasoning

Uses established rules to draw conclusions

Display rules

Evan received an ugly pair of pajamas for his birthday. Even though he did not like the gift, he smiles and thanked his grandma for the present. Evan's behavior is likely to be explained in terms of display rules

Motivation behavior

Is energized, directed, and sustained

Finding and framing a problem

Is the first step in the problem-solving process

Cognitive Psychology

Is the study of mental processes

Anger

Maxim, a 35 year old man, is diagnosed with grave 4 brain tumor with no chance of recovery. His doctor informs him that he has very little time left. Maxim feels furious because of the unfairness if the situation and asks, "why me?" According to Elisabeth Kübler ross, Maxim is in the ____ stage of coping with death

Decision making

Rules are not established, and we may not know the consequences of evaluating and choosing alternatives

Industry vs. Inferiority

Sammy is in 3 grade. When he won the spelling he, he felt proud of his accomplishment. But when he could not complete his arithmetic assignment on time, he felt incompetent. This is an example of Erickson's psychological development stage called

Preferential looking

The infant-perceptions research technique involved in giving an infant a choice of what object to look at and then looking for a reliable preference for one stimulus over the other is known as

Confirmation bias

The tendency to search for and use information that supports our ideas rather than refutes them is known as

Warm comfort

The work of Harry Harlow established that ____ is more important that feeding in the attachment process.

Authoritative

When Justin, a teen, told his parents that he wanted to learn an extracurricular activity, his parents gave him the liberty to choose any activity of his choice. However, they restricted him from choosing extreme sports. In this scenario Justin's parents are...

Safe

Wiliam volunteers to work in a war-torn country to try and improve the lives of the citizens. They currently have enough to eat and drink. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the next level these citizens would need would be