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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
02/28/2011

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Term
Schemas
Definition
Framework that organizes and interprets information.
Term
Assimilation
Definition
Interpreting new experience through existing schema.
Term
Accomidation
Definition
Adapting schemas to incorporate new information.
Term
Maturation
Definition
Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, realtively uninfluenced by experience.
Term
4 types of motor development
Definition

1. Roll over

2. sit unsupported

3. creep on all fours

4. walk

Term

Sensorimotor

 

(Ages & Definition)

Definition

Birth - 2 years old

Learn to coordinate sensory and motor skills

 

Term
Object Permanence
Definition
The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.
Term

Preoperational

 

(Ages & definition)

Definition

2 - 7 years

 

Language more sophisticated but still have trouble with mental manipulation of info.

 

Cant engage in certain mental operations

 

(i.e.) conservation & reversible scenarios

Term
Egocentrism
Definition
Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
Term
Stranger anxiety
Definition
the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning at about 8 months.
Term
Attachment
Definition
An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on seperation.
Term
Authoritarian
Definition
Impose rules and expect obedience
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Permissive
Definition
Submit to their childrens desires, make few demands and use little punishment.
Term
Authoritative
Definition
Both demanding and responsive; set and enforce rules yet explain the reasons, encouraging open discussion, and allowing exceptions.
Term
Adolescence
Definition
the transition period from puberty to independence
Term
puberty
Definition
the period of sexual maturation. when a person becomes capable of reproducing.
Term
Menarche
Definition
First menstrual period
Term
preconventional
Definition

before age 9

 

punishment and obedience orientation

 

individualism and purpose

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Conventional
Definition

Early adolescense

 

good boy/girl orientation

 

society - maintaining orientation

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Post conventional
Definition

Community rights vs person rights

 

universal ethical principal orientation

Term
idnetity
Definition
ones sense of self
Term
intimacy
Definition
the ability to form close, loving relationships
Term
zygote
Definition
conception to week 2
Term
embryonic stage
Definition
end of week 2 - week 8
Term
Fetal stage
Definition
9 weeks to birth
Term
teratogens
Definition
noxious substance or factors that can reach the embryo or fetus during development
Term
associative learning
Definition
learn to associate two stimuli
Term
observational learning
Definition
learn by watching other's experiences and examples
Term
unconditioned stimulus
Definition
 always elicits a relflex action. an unconditioned response
Term
unconditioned response
Definition
a response to an unconditioned stimulus - naturally occurring
Term
Neutral Stimulus
Definition
does not normally elicit a response or reflex action by itself
Term
Conditioned stimulus
Definition
the stimulus that was originally neutral becomes conditioned after it has been paired with the unconditioned stimulus
Term
Conditioned Response
Definition
the original unconditional response becomes conditioned after it has been elicited by the neutral stimulus
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