5 Steps to a 5 AP Psychology, 2014-2015 Edition

Stage One:Infants (newborn to 1 year old) face the crisis of trust vs. mistrust.Parents must provide a safe, consistent, and lo ...

hundreds of dying hospital patients, Kubler-Ross concluded that terminally ill patients pass through five stages of coping: deni ...

Males tend to have better ability to perform mental rotation tasks. The only evidence that males show higher achievement in math ...

7.Mr. Hernandez explains to his son that the speed limit is 55 mph. He tells him to stay under the speed limit when driving beca ...

 Answers and Explanations D—Securely attached kids tend to come to their mother for comfort when their mothers return. They ar ...

 Rapid Review Developmental psychology—study of physical, intellectual, social, and moral changes across the lifespan from conc ...

Reflex—the simplest form of behavior. Reflexes of neonate include: Rooting reflex—the newborn’s tendency to move its head when ...

object permanence(awareness that objects still exist when out of sight) and sym- bolic thinking. Preoperational stage—Piaget’s ...

Postconventional level—reached by only some people in the formal operational stage. stage 5—social contract, to promote society ...

For individualistic cultures, the most self-reliant, socially competent children with the highest self-esteem tend to have warm, ...

 183 Personality IN THIS CHAPTER Summary:“You’ve got a great personality” is a statement you probably like to hear about yourse ...

Cognitive theories of personality Trait theories of personality Assessment techniques Self-concept and self-esteem Personali ...

feelings, and images that we can easily recall. Generally inaccessible to our conscious, the largest part of the mind, the uncon ...

of sensitivity, or erogenous zone, and an unconscious conflict occurs. Freud believed that if the conflict was not resolved well ...

Critics (including neo-analysts, who were psychoanalysts that disagreed with parts of Freud’s theory and developed their own), n ...

Karen Horney’s Psychoanalytic Theory Although she never studied with Freud, Karen Horney is also considered a neo-Freudian. She ...

Cognitive and Social Cognitive (Social-Learning) Theories Both cognitive and social cognitive theories (also called social-learn ...

characterized by collectivism,primary identification of an individual as a member of a group (family, school, company, community ...

Hans Eysenck’s Personality Dimensions Another trait/type theorist, psychologist Hans Eysenck, tried to reduce description of our ...

Direct Observation Have you ever watched the behavior of people as you waited in line or sat in a public place? If so, you were ...