Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Anxiety Disorder, Survivor Guilt, Abecedarian

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Theory, research and intervention are a continuous cycle. Psychologists view stress in three different ways: stimulus, response, organism-environment reaction. Early childhood interventions: results of a test showed that head start children performed no better in school than comparison children, abecedarian program. At age 14 children in the preschool condition had higher. Late training (between 5 to 8 years) had little effect: high/scope perry preschool program. Training on logic, math, music, language, literacy, creativity, initiative. Preschool group had lower crime rate, required less welfare assistance, exhibited better academic performance and progress, had higher income and home ownership: penn optimism project preventing teenage depression. Helps children identify and reconsider negative beliefs about selves and to replace pessimistic attributions about successes with more optimistic ones. Initial results show a developmentally-predicted increase in depression for the control group but not for the intervention group.