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| universal, inborn, biologically based emotions |
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| Anger, Sadness, Joy, Contempt, Surprise, Disgust, Fear |
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| the seven primary emotions |
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| Facial Expression, Brain Circuits, Autonomic Nervous System |
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| the 3 biological aspects of emotion. |
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| determines the emotional importance of incoming sensory info; makes the initial decision of whether to approach or withdraw; important for fear |
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| decides the significance of the emotional info from the amygdala.; associated with "approach" emotions such as happiness & anger |
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| decides the significance of the emotional info from the amygdala.; associated with "withdrawl" emotions such as fear & sadness |
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| these fire in imitation of another person's actions and emotions; causes one to feel empathy |
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| Right Cerebral Hemisphere |
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| involved in reognizing emotional expression and processing emotional tone. |
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| involved in processing emotional meaning. |
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| activates the hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine, makes people feel "cold" when sad |
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| Epinephrine & Norepinephrine |
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| hormones that produce energy and alertness |
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| multiple choice questions with one answer relevant to the crime and several neutral answers |
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| explanations people make for their own behavior as well as other peoples' |
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| social & cultural regulations about when and where a person may express (or suppress) their emotions. |
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| acting out an emotion when you don't really feel it because you think it's the socially acceptable thing to do. |
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| Goal Is Specific, Challenging but Achievable, Aimed to get what you want |
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| goals aimed to achieve an outcome or experience, ex skydiving |
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| aimed to avoid an unpleasant situation i.e trying not to look foolish in public |
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| bonuses given upon completion of a goal |
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| Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict |
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| choosing the lesser of two evils; when you dislike both options |
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| Approach-Approach Conflict |
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| occurs when you're equally attracted to two or more goals. |
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| Approach-Avoidance Conflict |
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| when a single activity has both a positive and negative aspect |
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| an inferred process that causes movement towards a goal or away from an unpleasant situation. |
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| Satisfying a Psychological Goal |
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| a type of motivation. ex, marriage |
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| Satisfying a Biological Need |
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| a type of motivation; ex, hunger |
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| Having Psychological Ambition |
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| a type of motivation; ex, winning a race |
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| doing something for its own sake and the pleasure it brings. |
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| doing something for external rewards such as money |
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| Passionate (Romantic) Love |
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| characterized by intense emotions, sexual passion, infatuation |
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| characterized by affection & trust |
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| a hormone that plays a big role in attachment bc it influences feelings & expressions of love |
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| the idea that the people nearest to you geographically are dearest to you |
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| holds that being alike in looks, personality, attitudes, beliefs etc is the 2nd key predictor for who we love. |
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| Attachment Theory of Love |
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| people's attachment styles as adults stems from how their parents cared for them as children |
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| the sequential unfolding of genetically influenced behavior and physical characteristics. |
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| the first stage of prenatal development; begins when the sperm & ovum unite & a zygote is produced. |
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| 2nd stage of prenatal development; begins about two weeks after fertilization. embryo grows to about four centimetres long; organs develop. Stays female unless it comes into contact with testosterone. |
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| third stage of prenatal development. Begins at about 8 weeks after fertilization. The cell becomes a fetus and further develops its organs |
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| the most important development stage. |
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| agents that interfere with normal embryotic development. |
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| Bowlby's Attachment Theory |
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describes the attachment styles that infants develop as a result of their early interactions with others.
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| the pleasure of being held and touched. |
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| the stress most babies develop at about six to 8 months of age when their primary caregivers leave them with strangers. Lasts til about age 3. |
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| proposed a theory of cognitive development in children with 4 stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, & formal operations. |
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| jean piaget cognitive theory; first stage, age 0 to 2; object permanence is the major accomplishment of this stage. |
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| the understanding that something continues to exist even when you can't see it. |
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| jean piaget cognitive development theory; second stage, age 2-7; what children can't do ex may recognize that he has a sister but not that he is a brother; egocentric thinking; use of symbols and language accelerates. |
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| Concrete Operations Stage |
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| jean piaget cognitive development theory; third stage, ages 7 to 12; children become better at conversation, multiplication and division, and categorizing things. |
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| jean piaget cognitive development theory; 4th stage, ages 12 thru adulthood; capable of abstract reasoning, drawing logical conclusions, finding answers to problems systematically |
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| the onset of menstruation |
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| proposed that all individuals go through 8 stages in life, each characterized by a "crisis" that should be resolved before the person moves on to the next stage. |
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| interal struggle to decide who to be and what to make of life. those who resolve it will have a strong identity and |
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| norms governing what people of the same age are expected to do; used by people to determine whether they are on time in their transitions of life. |
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| deductive reasoning, the ability to use new information to solve problems. Education doesn't necessarily lead to this. |
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| Crystallized Intelligence |
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| Cognitive skills and specific knowledge of info acquired over a lifetime. Dependent on education. |
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| growth of brain neural connections. |
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| children talking to themselves to direct their own behavior; first out loud, then in their own head. |
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| children start wondering HOW and WHY stuff works the way it does ("Why is he so mean") ; how people are affected by beliefs and feelings. |
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| a parenting method which used power and authority to correct a child's misbehavior. Results in the child obeying but often only in the presence of his/her parents. Child often feels resentful. |
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| a parenting method in which the parent appeals to the child's good nature, empathy and love for the parent. (ie, "you're too mature to behave like that"). Results in the child internalizing reasons for good behavior, and growing up to be good at impulse-control and self regulation. |
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| a child's sense of being male or female, belonging to one sex not the other. |
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| children become socialized into their gender roles, having abilities, interests and behaviors associated with either masculinity or femininity. |
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| cognitive beliefs & expectations about what it means to be male or female; develops around the age of 5. |
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