PSY 225 Q&A Bundle

adolescent egocentrism characteristic that makes adolescents focus on themselves personal fable An aspect of adolescent egocentrism characterized by an adolescent's belief that his or her thoughts, feelings, and experiences are unique, more wonderful or awful than anyone else's. invincibility fa...

informed consent- can it be harmful? scientist must inform participant about any potential harm. participant must be given complete information on which to make their decision - information introduced in informed consent procedures may can induce effects (symptoms) through suggestion that would othe...

Physical Play Development Games with rules common: Sports, invented games. Rough-and-tumble play Video games Adult-organized sports Physical education Piaget's Theory: Achievements of the Concrete Operational Stage Conservation - Decentration, Reversibility Classification Spatial Reasoning - Dire...

How does the expression "thinking out of the box" seem to relate well to the difficulty that students have with the 9-dot problem? Explain by providing the strategy that most students use to solve this problem and what is necessary to come up with the solution. Most students think you must use the...

Personality The organized combination of attributes, motives, values, and behaviors that is unique to each individual Dispositional Traits Relatively enduring dimensions or qualities of personality along which people differ (for example, extraversion, aloofness) Characteristic Adaptations Compared...

A researcher brings a participant into the lab for a study on stress in college students. The student feels uncomfortable with the experiment, so asks to leave. The researcher tells the student they need to participate in the study otherwise they will suffer negative consequences. The influence the ...

Activity-passivity issue the issue in developmental theory centering on whether humans are active contributors to their own development or are passively shaped by forces beyond their control Continuinty-discontinuity issue the debate among theorists about whether human development is best character...

Nature Vs. Nurture Opposing theoretical views on human development. Nature believes that humans have instincts and our capabilities are hardwired into us. Nurture believes that our abilities are determined by our environment. Activity Vs. Passivity Opposing theoretical views on human development. A...

How humans develop, Development Systematic changes and continuities in the individual that occur between conception and death How humans develop, Physical Growth of body and its organs, functioning of physiological systems and physical signs of aging How humans develop, Cognitive changes and c...

Which statistical technique was used by Raymond Cattell to derive his 16 basic personality traits? Factor analysis One important distinction between the trait approach and a learning or conditioning approach is that the trait approach emphasizes the characteristics of the person rather than the sit...

The field of behavioral genomics is the study of how genes affect behavior. From the perspective of evolutionary personality theory, what would be the most likely explanation for a characteristic like having a tendency to be wary of strangers? Adaptive characteristics that emerge over generations ...