Psychology study guide – Flashcards

What did Terman's groundbreaking study of gifted children accomplish?

Charles Spearman believed that intelligence is composed of __________.

A test is said to be reliable if __________.

________ is a repetitive behavior or mental act that an individual feels compelled to perform in response to an obsession.

Severe depression that comes on suddenly and seems to have no external cause is called ________

Hippocrates maintained that mental illness was ________

According to the behaviorists, disordered behavior is a result of ________.

Fraternal twins are __________ similar genetically than are other brothers and sisters.

Which of the following is the correct order of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?

By about 12 months, most infants __________.

Which of the following is a disadvantage of the longitudinal design?

__________ refers to heredity and __________ refers to environmental influences.

The most likely cause for miscarriage during the first three months of pregnancy is __________.

Which of the following stages of psychosocial development appears in adulthood rather than in childhood?

Diseases carried by recessive genes are inherited when __________.

Rational-emotive behavior therapy presumes that the ultimate cause for distressing feelings or symptoms is due to ________.

The trial-and-error method of solving problems is also known as __________.

A person starts from one point and comes up with many different ideas or possibilities based on that point. The person is engaging in __________.

Which classification of developmental delay affects most of the population classified in this fashion?

A male has a thin, frail-looking area on his X chromosome of the 23rd pair. As children, people with this syndrome are typically mildly developmentally delayed but shift to severe or profound developmental delay as adults. This is known as __________.

Erikson saw the major challenge of young adulthood as that of __________.

In a __________ design, one group of participants is followed and assessed as the group ages.

Your little sister picks up objects, feels every part of them, and then puts them in her mouth. What stage of Jean Piaget's model of cognitive development does this behavior suggest she is in?

According to Vygotsky, which of these is a key factor in a child's cognitive development?

The twenties is a time of __________.

A disorder in which intruding thoughts that occur again and again are followed by repetitive, ritualistic behavior meant to lower the anxiety caused by the thoughts is called ________ disorder.

False beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness are known as ________.

It is not unreasonable to assume that in ancient times signs of mental illness were believed to be caused by__________.

What term is used to describe a child's inability to see the world through anyone else's eyes except his or her own?

Which of the following is true of the original research that suggested a relationship between the MMR vaccine and the development of autism?

Attachment usually takes place within the __________ of life.

A therapist challenges what she sees as her client's irrational and self-defeating beliefs. She uses persuasion, confrontation, arguments, and even homework assignments to challenge those beliefs. She is probably a ________ therapist.

In order to conclusively show that animals do use language, one would have to demonstrate that __________.

An intersexed individual is defined as a person who:

Kohler demonstrated "Aha!" or insight behavior with __________.

A group of psychologists reviews the literature on the heritability of intelligence. They conclude that most of the estimates indicate that __________ percent of intelligence is due to genetics.

The scientific study of the changes that occur in people as they age from conception to death is called __________.

What are some of the common consequences to a child whose mother smoked while pregnant?

The emotional bond that forms between an infant and a primary caregiver is called __________.

Like most characteristics of a population, WAIS-IV scores are distributed in a bell or normal curve. Which of the following is an accurate characteristic of those types of curves?

Many items on a "culture-fair" test require the use of __________.

The communication between honeybees would not be classified as language because __________.

An advantage of algorithms over heuristic is __________

According to Piaget, the ability to understand that simply changing the appearance of an object does not change the object's nature is known as __________.

Which is NOT a characteristic of creative people?

Gardner and his associates are known for proposing __________.

The first true longitudinal study of the effects of giftedness on social success was conducted by __________.

Which neurotransmitters are most important in the development of mood disorders?