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| "Our awarness of ourselves and our enviornment." |
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| A social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions,feelings,thoughts,or behaviors will spontaneously occur. |
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| What we focus on; What we notice |
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| What we are not focused on; What we do not notice |
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| The need to use more to recieve the desired effect |
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The distress experienced when the "high" subsides.*
*Like in Riding in Cars with Boys |
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| The body as been altered in ways that create cravings for the drug. |
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| A person's resources for coping with daily life wither as a drug becomes "needed" to relax, socialize, or sleep. |
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| NREM is the first 4 stages of sleep |
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The brain is active, but the body is immobile. |
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| Persistent innability to fall asleep or stay asleep |
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| Sleep attacks, even collapsing into REM sleep at inoppurtue times |
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| Repeated awakening after breathing stops |
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| Dreams are disguised symbols of repressed desires and anxieties. |
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| Disguised psychological meaning of dreams |
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| Dreams are simple byproducts of random stimulation of brain cells |
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| Dreams are an important part of information processing of our everyday experiences |
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| Chemicals that reduce neural activity and other body functions (alcohol,barbituates,opiates) |
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Intensify nueral activityand bodily functions
(caffeine, nicotine,amphetamines, mathaphatamines, cocaine,ectasy) |
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Interfere with serotonin transmission which causes hallucinations
(LSD, Shrooms, Marijuana) |
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| The argument questions if our behaviors and personality traits are based upon biology or the way we were raised by our parents. |
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| Topics of Behavior Genetics |
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- Genes
- Twin and adoption studies
- Temperament and heredity
- Heritability
- Gene/Enviornment interaction
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- Easy (adapts well to change)
- Difficult (No changes to routine)
- Slow to warm up
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| Behaviors expected of people based upon their gender identity |
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| One's sense of whether one is male and female, inlcuding what it means to be that gender |
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| We learn gender role behavior by imitation, and by rewards and punishments that shape our behavior |
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| The cognitive frameworks for developing concepts of "male" and "female"; these frameworks guide our observation |
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| Substances such as viruses or chemicals that can damage the developing embryo or fetus |
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| We take new information and relate it to our preexisiting ideas |
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| Altering one's ideas as a result of new information |
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| A mental container we build to hold our experiences |
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| The idea that objects still exsist even when we can not see them |
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| An emotional tie to another person |
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| Takes different participants and compares them one time to see differences |
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| Same participants are studied over time to determine change |
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(Piaget Cognitive Development)
Sensorimotor |
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| Experiencing the world through senses and actions. (Ages: Birth to 2 years) |
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(Piaget Cognitive Development)
Preoperational |
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| Representing things with words and images; intuitive istead of logical reasoning (Age: 2 to 7) |
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Concrete Operational |
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| Thinking logically about concrete events; performing arithmetical operations(Age:7 to 11) |
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Formal Operational |
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| Abstract Reasoning (Age: 12 to adulthood) |
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Authoritarian
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| Demanding; Unresponsive to needs |
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| Submit to kid's desires not enforcing limits or standards for child behaviors |
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Authorative
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| Enforces rules,limits, and standards, but also explain, discuss, listen, and express respect for child's ideas and wishes |
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Stage 1: Follow the rules because if you don't you will get in trouble
Stage 2: About getting what you need
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Stage 3: Moral dilemas based on judgment
Stage 4: Everyone is on equal levels; rules apply to everyone |
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| Postconventional Morality |
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Stage 5: Laws/Rules more flexible; looking out for others
Stage 5: Based on conciousness; about one's self |
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| Erikson's First stage of Development |
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| Infancy, if needs are dependably met, infants develope a sense of basic trust |
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| Erikson's stage for Adolesence |
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| Teenagers work at refining themselves by testing roles and then integrating them to form an identity. |
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| Erikson's Last Stage of Development |
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| Late Adulthood; Reflecting on his or her life, an older adult may feel a sense of satisfaction or failure |
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| Kubler-Ross's 5 stages of Death and Dying |
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- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
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| All about senses, brain receives input from senory organs |
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| How our brain makes sense of our senses |
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| How loud does a noise have to be before we hear it? How bright does a light have to be before we see it? |
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| Our senses tune out a constant stimulus. (i.e. the rock in your shoe or the ticking of a clock) |
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| Tranforming this cell stimulation into neural impulses |
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Light -> Cornea and Pupil ->
(Focused by) Lens -> Retina |
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| Houses the Rods and the Cones |
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- sensitive to light
- Peripheral Vision
- Night Vision
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| 3 types of cones, some recieve red, some green, and some blue and everything we see is a combination of one or more of these colors |
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| Cones come in pairs, when one of the pairs is seen the other is not, yellow vs. blue, red vs. green, and white vs. black |
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The ability to see a consistent color in changing illumination
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The ablility to adjust eyes to different shadows and lighting
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The ability to percieve objects as having a constant shape depite recieving different sensory images.
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The ability to use distance-related context cues to help us see objects as the same size even if the image on the retina becomes smaller.
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