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| all factors that arouse, direct, maintain behavior towards a goal |
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| reflexes are innate, lack spontaneity, are stimulus bound, |
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| a behavior is characteristic of the species that possesses it, if it is in all member of the species it is innate |
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| life(eros)-nuturing and death(thanatos)-agression, we do things w/o thinking about why |
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| drive-internal state of arousal, when you run low on something you go and seek it out. primary-innate, secondary-learned |
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| Konrad Lorenz-imprinting in baby ducklings, tendency to perform a behavior |
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| likelihood to perform a behavior based on levels of arousal, more arousal to so simple tasks, look for optimal performance at top of curve |
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| Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs |
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| physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness, self-esteem, self-actualization, transcendence |
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| don't consume enough calories to function, result of distorted body image |
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| binge and purge, very common among young college women |
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| origin of hunger sensation in stomach or brain? |
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| lateral hypothalamus and ventromedial hypothalamus |
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| control eating, study in rats, eventually overfed and underfed level out to about same level, Dual Hypothalamic Control Theory |
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| Give subjects sandwiches, give crackers to taste, rate the crackers. "skinnies and fatties", skin. internally controlled and eat until full, fat. externally controlled will eat what is put in front of them |
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| ask suspect something about the crime only the guilty person would know |
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| get them to admit to small transgressions before asking about real case |
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| strong emotions include physical response and sympathetic nervous system, inc. in heart rate, bp, |
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| frontal lobotomy, disconnect ore-frontal cortex from thalamus, removed anxiety and compulsions, relived schitzo, impaired judgements |
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| trans-orbital lobotomy approach, toured country doing it |
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| environmental stimulus->phys. arousal->subjective sensation ex. don't cry b/c you're sad, sad b/c you're crying |
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| criticized timing of Lange theory, emotions occur to quickly in real life, |
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| position of facial muscles determines emotions |
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| dual pathway. environmental stimulus->thalamus->>cortex or ANS->>subjective sensation or physical arousal |
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| general arousal+cognitive interpretation->specific emotion |
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| vague or general statements about personality that apply to nearly everyone |
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| biologically and environmentally determined set of characteristics within individuals accounting for enduring patterns of thinking,feeling,acting |
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| stable,enduring traits define personality |
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| energy of sex drive oral-<18 mo, anal-18 mo-3 yrs, phallic-3-5 yrs, latency-5 yr-puberty, genital-puberty-adulthood, inability to resolve conflict->fixation in a certain stage |
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| archetypes, masculine v. feminine, extrovert v. introvert, persona v. self |
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| children think themselves inferior to adult, so always striving for superiority |
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everything is the fault of the parents, born with basic hostility and anxiety
toward other->compliant, against others->domination, away from others->aloof |
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| "radial behaviorism", stress events in environment, |
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| Cognitive/Social Learning |
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| observational learning, thoughts and expectationsshaped |
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| circular logic, cardinal, central, and secondary traits |
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| behaviorist opposing trai theory, situationalism v. central tendencies, people's personalities not measured often enough |
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| rational assessment of personality |
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| projective tests, inkblots, thematic appreciation test, measuring responses and interpret |
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| empirical assessment of personality |
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| objective tests, criterion groups, MMPI |
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| differences in intelligence i groups of people whites have 20 pts higher than blacks when tested in 1960s |
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| measured volumes of skulls with rice |
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| bell shaped curve, correlations, twin studies, "anthropomorphic measurement" used to study intelligence, father of eugenics |
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| standardized testing, vocab, imagery, comprehension, |
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| mental age/chronological age*100=IQ |
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| deviation from IQ should be compared within age group |
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| lifespan of a genius, better to be smarter, happier later in life |
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| 7 factors, primary mental abilities, different set of tests and math, fewer assumptions made than Spearman |
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g factor-general intellect
s-factor-special abilities |
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fluid v. crystallized intelligence
innate v. learned abilities |
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| triarchtic theory of intelligence(analytic, creative, practical) |
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| infrequent, deviant, maladaptive, unjustifiable, must meet all requirements simultaneously |
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| diagnostic and statistical manual of natural disorders, 5 axises of requirements |
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| diffuse apprehension at least 6 mo |
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| anticipatory anxiety about next panic attack |
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| irrational fears, fear makes life difficult in some way |
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| know symptoms are bizarre but cannot stop themselves, ritualistic, fixations on cleanliness and certain numbers |
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| anxiety and depression after traumatic event |
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| fear of ailment->ailment or vise versa |
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| ID disrupted, forget old life, multiple personality disorders |
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pos symptom-incoherent thoughts, hallucinations
neg symptom-catatonia, Blunted affect |
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| Major affective disorders |
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| mania, depression, bipolar |
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