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Final Review
Chapter 1-14
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Psychology
12th Grade
06/07/2009

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Psychology
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the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
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B.F Skinner
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Behaviorism
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Down Syndrome is caused by..
Definition
an extra chromosome
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Nature Vs. Nurture Controversy
Definition

genetic code vs. your experience i.e, how you are raised

Both have an impact on most areas of developtment

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the basic building blocks of heredity
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genes
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genes are found:
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chromosomes
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Piaget
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4 stages of cognitive development
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Kohlberg
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as you get older your moral reasoning improves
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Erikson
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social development
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Elisabeth Kubler Ross
Definition
studied grief and death and dying
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areas that decline as we age
Definition

your sensory systems

functioning of your immune system

and cognitive skills

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authorative parents result in what type of child
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competent child
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1  positive effect of day care
Definition
improve social skills
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4 qualities of taste
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sweet, sour, salty and bitter
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5 skin senses
Definition
touch, cold, warthm, pain, pressure
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perception
Definition
process of organizing sensations to form your image of the world
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sensation
Definition
mechanical process that stimulates the senses and transmits the sensory info to your brain
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trichromat
Definition
normal color vision
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three kind of stimuli that get our attention
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novel (unique)

Intense

something that happens over and over again

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Freud's 3 levels of consciousness
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preconscious

unconscious

the conscious

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repression
Definition
involuntary moving of painful memories out of yourmind
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suppression
Definition
voluntarily put something out of your mind
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REM
Definition
when most vivid dreams happen
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insomnia
Definition
inability to fall asleep or if you fall asleep you can't stay asleep
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sleep problems increase with
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stress
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learning
Definition
a relatively permanent change in behavior that comes from practice or experience
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generalization
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objects with similar characteristics get the same name
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Ivan Pavlov
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classical conditioning- stimulus and response
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adults frequently reinforce undesirable behaviors in children by
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pushing them or paying attention
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reinforcers
Definition
stimuli that increase the frequency of a behavior
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positive reinforcement
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increases the desired behavior when you use it
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negative reinforcer
Definition
increases the desired behavior when you take it away
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meditation
Definition
slows down body processes as the person puts problems out of their mind
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mnemonic devices
Definition

techniques to stimulate your memory

i.e, PEMDAS

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chunking
Definition
you take the material you need to learn and break it down into smaller pieces
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flashbulb memories
Definition
an experience so intense you remember it as a photo
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techniques that can help you recall
Definition

.study in the same conditions in which you take the test

.tie information to stuff you already know

.use acronymns or mnemonic devices

 

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language
Definition
communication of thoughts and feelings using symbols and grammar rules
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algorithm
Definition
a specific procedure for solving a problem
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heuristic
Definition
a shortcut to solving a problem but you don't always get the right answer
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means-end-analysis
Definition
look where you are now, and look at your goal and figure out how to get to your goal
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concepts
Definition

mental categories used to group items with similar properties

i.e, color= red blue yellow etc.

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cognition
Definition
mental activity involved in understanding, processing and communicating information
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when do the child's first true word appear:
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at age 1
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prelinguistic vocalization
Definition
crying, cooing, babbling
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insight
Definition
aha! moment. a moment when the solution becomes obvious
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Human intelligence allows us to:
Definition

. adapt to changing conditions

 . meet physical challenges & to think about abstraction

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Wechsler
Definition

WSIC Wechsler Scales of Intelligence for Children

Performance and verbal IQ score which are then average

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Standford Binet
Definition
compares the mental age divided by the chronological age
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Howard Gardner
Definition
theory of multiple intelligences
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convergent thinking
Definition

narrowing down the choices in order to reach a conclusion

i.e, multiple choice tests

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divergent thinking
Definition
more creative-coming up with as many possible solutions to a problem as you can think of
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cultural bias
Definition
requires a person to have certain cultural experiences in order to perform well on the task
Term
what can you do to enhace intellectual functioning in a young child
Definition

.play with the child and use plenty of verbal communication

.provide toys that require creative use

. read books, play counting games, do puzzles

.encourage problem solving skills and independence

Term
hormone tied to aggressive behavior
Definition
testosterone
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creativity
Definition
ability to come up with new and useful situation to a problem
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what other factors contribute to agression
Definition
stress, anxiety, extreme heat, very hungry, sleep depriviation
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eating disorder
Definition
persistent gross disturbance in eating patterns

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physiological needs
Definition
food, air, water, proper right temperature, reproduction, waste repelation
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incentive
Definition
it's something that makes your work hard towards a goal
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what should you pay attention to if you want to find out what the person speaking to you is really thinking
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gesture, facial expression, body language
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hallucination
Definition
false auditory or visual perception
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delusions
Definition
false persistent release with no sensory or objective evidence
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hypochondriasis
Definition
excessive preoccupation with ones health
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compulsions
Definition
ritual behaviors done to reduce anxiety- hand washing
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obsessions
Definition
anxiety producing thoughts or images that you can't control
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PSTD-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Definition
physical or psychological effects of traumatic experience; can happen years later- i.e, soldiers coming back from the war
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what helps one to figure out if behavior or feeling is evidence of a psychological disorder
Definition
is behavior or feeling appropriate for situation you are in?
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social phobia
Definition
excessive fear of public scrunity
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bipolar disorder
Definition
AKA-manic depression
mood swings, super happy-> depressed
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stress
Definition
when you have to adopt new situation, can cause physical symptoms
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daily hassles
Definition
are always negative
"pain the the butt" things
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life changes
Definition
they happen on occasion and they can be positive or negative
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