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| What is the relationship between creativity and intelligence? |
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| It takes some intelligence to be creative and then once you hit an IQ of around 120, creativity drops off. |
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| IQ is a score on a test on a certain day |
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| What are the differences between group and individual IQ tests? |
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group- given in groups
individual- one person takes the test at a time |
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| What is the history of IQ testing? |
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| Alpha/Beta test, Binet-Simon, Stanford-Binet, Wechsler (3 scales-child, teen, adult) |
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| What affect does heredity and environment have on intelligence? |
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| 80% heredity, 20% environment |
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| How do you figure out an IQ score? |
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| What are the different factor theories of intelligence and who developed them? |
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Sternberg(3)
- practical
- analytical
- creative
Thurstone(2)
Gardner-8 intelligences |
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| What do IQ tests actually measure? |
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| convergent thinking- ability to get answers down to one answer |
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| What are the three theories of emotion? |
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James/Lange-body tells the brain
Cannon/Bard- both happen simultaneously
Schacter/Singer- brain tells the body |
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| What are the physiological aspects of motivation and emotions? |
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| Limbic System, hormones, endocrine system, adrenal glands |
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| How does the polygraph work? |
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| measures heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, Galvonic skin response |
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| Who became famous for their research on sexual responsiveness? |
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| What are the stages of the sexual response cycle? |
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Excitement
Plateau
Orgasm
Resolution |
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| Social motives needed for Achievement? |
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| need to master diffucult challenges, out perform others, meet high standards of excellence |
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| **Is sex psychological or mostly physical?** |
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| sexual dysfunction is more psychological than it is physical |
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| What are myths about rape? |
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Rape is a sexual disorder
(it actually is NOT) |
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| How are development and life span psychology different? |
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Life-span - continual, "womb to tomb"
Development- studying different stages of life |
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| Genetic messages are carried by what? |
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| **Know the 3 stages of prenatal development and their sequence** |
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Definition
Germinal- egg attaches to uterus
Embryonic- most important, every organ develops
Fetal- weight gain |
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| Which stage of prenatal development is the most important? |
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| Know examples of instincts |
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rooting- tough face, babies turn head
palmar- grasping
moro-startle, arms and legs stretch
balinski- toes curl
swimming- they can swim
depth perception- learn by falling down |
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| Know the 4 stages of Pieget's cognitive development; examples and sequence |
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Definition
sensorimotor- hand-eye coordination, pre-language
preoperational- language, haven't mastered 4 operations
concrete operational-only understand what you see or do
formal operational- understand "what if" questions |
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| How is attachment formed? |
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| attachment is formed with the mother because she is the main caregiver, reinforcement is being fed by mom |
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| When does adolescence begin? |
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| *What changes take place during adolescence?* |
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| growth spurts, hair growth, voice changes, body changes |
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| What id the major goal of adolescence? |
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| **What is imaginary audience?** |
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| when you think that everyone is watching you |
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| What are the myths of old age? |
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| Old does not mean decrepit, still able to learn |
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| emotions, motivations, learning behavior |
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| Freud's 5 stages of psychosexual development |
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| oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital |
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| Freud and personality and the Magic 3 i.e. levels of consciousness and determinates of personality |
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3 stages
- consciousness- things you are aware of
- sub- or pre-consciousness- things you can bring to awareness with ease
- unconscious- hidden wants, fears, needs, desires
ego-reality principle
superego-angel on shoulder
id-seek pleasure, avoid pain, pleasure principle |
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| How is trait theory different with Eysenck and Cattell? |
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Eysenck- I↔E, continuum of introvert and extravert
Cattell- 16 PF, thousands of traits, source and surface traits |
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| **When do crowding and noise become stressful?** |
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| What is the difference between SRRS and Lazarus concerning stress? |
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SRRS-big life events cause stress
Lazarus- small things cause stress, big things that cause stress make you shine |
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| **What are 3 ways of altering a stressful behavior?** |
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| change perceptions, change environment, biological reaction (bowling, exercise) |
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| What type of control would Rotter know about? |
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| Examples of the general adaption syndrome. |
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| hypothalamus, adrenals, pituitary gland, alarm-resistance-reaction |
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| How is personality formed in humanism and behaviorism? |
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Humanism- other people being around is crucial for personality formation
Behaviorism- past associations, reinforced or punished behaviors, envorinment |
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| **What 3 ways can personality be assessed?** |
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| obersvation, inventories, interviews |
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| Be able to pick out the Rorschach, the TAT, and the MMPI. |
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Definition
Rorschach- ink blot, used for severe mental patients
TAT- thematic apperception test
MMPI- minnesota, used ill or troubled people as norms |
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| Know the defense mechanisms |
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| repression, projection, displacement, reaction formation, regression, rationalization, denial, sublimation |
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| What are the 3 definitions of stress? |
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stimulus- stimulants cause stress
response- body tells you when you're stressed
interactional- how you perceive the event that causes stress |
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| What are the 4 models of abnormal behavior? |
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| statistical, medical, cultural, adaptive |
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| Know the 5 axis for the DSM-IV and what they represent. |
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Definition
Axis 1- clinical syndromes
Axis 2- personality disorders
Axis 3- general medical conditions
Axis 4- psychosocial and envorinmental problems
Axis 5- global assessment of functioning (GAF) scale |
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| Know the 3 types of depression and their charactertics |
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Definition
normal- feeling down due to an event
blues- college depression for no reason
major- life-threatening, tired, blame themselves |
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| examples of anxiety disorders |
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Definition
| panic, phobias, obsessions, compulsions |
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| What is somatoform disorder? |
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Definition
| physical complaint with no physical cause |
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| examples of dissosiative disorders |
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| psychogenic fugue, DID(identity disorder) |
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| What is the difference between anorexia and bulimia? |
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Definition
anorexia- stop eating
bulimia- overeating and puking |
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| examples of psychosexual disorders. |
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Definition
| paraphilia, beastiality, fetishes, Gender Identity disorder |
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| What is deviant or abnormal sexual behavior? |
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Definition
| lack of consenting adults, physical or psychological harm |
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| general symptoms of schizophrenia |
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Definition
lack of integration, something doesn't match, split between intellect and emotion
delusions of control, insertion, reference, grandeur, paranoia
hallucinations
formal thought disprders- word salad, cognitive slippage, unrelated words, rhyming |
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| catatonic, paranoid, disorganized |
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| What are the 4 causes of schizophrenia? |
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| developmental, genetic, biochemical, stress/vulnerability |
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| examples of affective disorders |
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mood disorders, inappropriate or unusual moods, symptoms do not change, only differ in severity
anxiety, depression, bipolar |
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| example of a personality disorder and its relationship to remission |
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incurable
remission- client gets better for a short time and then goes back |
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