psychology final
Tom believes he is unable to stop gambling because his friends all gamble and are a bad influence; however, he believes that Barnaby is unable to stop gambling because Barnaby is addicted to gambling. This is an example of ________.
actor-observer bias
What is the just-world hypothesis?
an ideology common in the United States that people get the outcomes they deserve
_____is a long-standing connection or bond with others
attachment
_____ development involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning and creativity.
cognitive
the continuous development approach views development as a _____
cumulative process
Crawling, walking, writing, dressing, naming colors, speaking in sentences, and starting puberty are all examples of ________.
development milestones
Theorist who view development as ___ believe that develpment takes place in unique stages
discontinuous
_____ holds that our behavior is determined by internal factors.
dispositionism
Sigmund Freud belived that personality develops____
during early childhood
The field of social psychology studies topics at the intrapersonal level. These topics include_____.
emotions and attitudes, the self and social cognition
What does nurture refer to in the nature vs nurture debate?
envirment and culture
What does nature refer to in nature vs. Nurture debate?
genes and biology
What are the stages of prenatal development
germinal, embryonic, fetal
____ is the strengthening of an orginal group attitude after the discussion of views within a group.
group polarization
After age 65, most people are attempting to assess their lives and make sense of life and the meaning of their contributions. What is the primary developmental task of this stage?
integrity vs. despair
What is groupthink?
modification of the opinions of members of a group to align with what they believe is the group consensus
______ skills refer to our ability to move our bodies and manipulate objects.
motor
When it comes to social psychology, a script is a ____
person's knowledge about the squence of events in a specific setting
Following an outcome, ________ are those attributions that enable us to see ourselves in favorable light.
self-serving bias
During Jean Piaget's ________ stage, the world is experienced through senses and actions.
sensorimotor
What is the main point of the Stanford experiment?
social roles are powerful determines of human behavior
What is a social role?
socially defined pattern of behavior that is expected of a person in a given setting or group
Who belived that moral development, like cognitive development , follows a series of stages?
Lawrence kohlberg
Specific normative events are also called ________.
developmental milestones
Between birth and one year, infants are dependent in their caregivers; therefore, caregivers who are responsive and sensitive to their infant's needs help their baby to develop a sense of the world as safe. What is the primary development task of this stage?
trust vs mistrust
A development psychologist might use ___ to observe how children behave on a playground, at a daycare center, or in the child's own home.
naturalistic observation
As toddlers begin to explore their world, they learn that they can control their actions and act on the environment to get results. What is the primary development task of this stage?
Autonomy vs. shame/doubt
who developed the psychosocial theory of develpoment
Erick Erikson
Which type of persuasion involves encoarging a person to agree to small favor or to buy a small item, only to later request a larger favor or purchase of a larger item?
Foot-in-the-door
Kara gets an F on her social psychology exam. Then she goes home and gets into an argument with her roommate, Lee. Lee assumes Kara is yelling at him because she likes to bully him, not because she had a bad day. Lee is making a ______
Fundamental attribution error
The _____ hypothesis is the ideology common in the United States that people get the outcomes they deserve.
Just-world
Who conducted the Stanford prison experiment?
Philip Zimbardo
who called the stages of develpment phychosexual stages?
Sigmund Freud
