Exam 3: Causal Factors and Viewpoints

1-97.New perceptions and experiences tend to be worked into our existing schemas,even if the new information must be distorted to fit them.This process is called

Freud's psychosexual stage that occurs between the ages of 3 and 5 and includes the Oedipal period is the __________ stage.

1-70.Which perspective or viewpoint focuses on intrapsychic conflicts as the cause of psychopathology?

Suppose that the presence of a particular gene is a necessary cause for the occurrence of schizophrenia.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

1-55.Which of the following is a misconception about genetics and behavior?

Neural plasticity is

1-50.If fraternal (or dizygotic)twins are more likely to be concordant for a trait than other siblings,can it be concluded that the higher concordance rate is due to the greater degree of genetic relatedness?

1-79.The humanistic perspective focuses primarily upon the capacity of the individual to

1-82.Which perspective was initially developed through laboratory research?

1-14.In the diathesis-stress model,a diathesis is

1-29.The site of communication between two neurons is the

1-24.What is the primary focus of the field of developmental psychopathology?

1-23.Resilient children

_____________ are the conditions that guarantee the occurrence of a disorder.

1-48.Which method for studying genetic influences fails to control for the possible effect of sharing a common environment?

1-30.Which statement about neural communication is accurate?

1-38.Down syndrome has been linked to

1-42.The genetic influences that determine behavior may never be fully understood due to

1-85.If a response has been learned through conditioning,it would be appropriate to treat it using the process of

1-45.Attractive children and unattractive babies tend to be treated differently.In other words,an infant's physical phenotype may alter how others respond to him or her.What type of genotype-environment correlation is this an example of?