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Psychology
Comprehensive Midterm
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
03/14/2016

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Baumrind
Definition
4 patterns of parenting
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4 patterns of parenting
Definition
rejecting-neglecting, authoritative, authoritarian, permissive-indulgent
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Corpus Callosum
Definition
fibers that connect the two cerebral hemispheres
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Depiction of violence can lead to violence thru:
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observational learning, disinhibition, habituation, increased arousal
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Overregulation
Definition
ignoring the exceptions to grammatical rules
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preoperational
Definition
second piagetian stage
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3 sleep disorders
Definition
sleep talking, somnambulism, night terrors
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Regression
Definition
going back to an earlier stage of development
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3 elimination disorders
Definition
enuresis, encopresis, bed-wetting
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Animism
Definition
ex: believing a train could talk
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2 concepts brought up by Vygotsky
Definition
ZPD, scaffolding
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Plasticity
Definition
ability of the brain to recover from njury
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car wrecks
Definition
most common cause of death in early childhood
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Testosterone
Definition
hormone associated with gender identity
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Androgyny
Definition
having characteristics of both sexes
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Egocentric
Definition
it's all about me
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Prosocial Behavior
Definition
empathy and perspective taking
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Conservation
Definition
properties such as volume remain constant even if the shape changes
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Symbolic
Definition
type of play associated with the preoperational stage
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Gross motor
Definition
skills for locomotion
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Fine motor
Definition
skills for manipulation
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Parten
Definition
6 types of play
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2 groups of play
Definition
social and nonsocial
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Gender identity
Definition
sense of being male or female
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transductive
Definition
reasoning from one specific to another specific
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3 types of descriptive research
Definition
naturalistic observation, case studies, surveys
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4 types of research
Definition
descriptive, biological, experimental, correlational
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Down's Syndrome
Definition
caused by a trisomy on the 21st pair of chromosomes
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Mitosis
Definition
mutation would be seen by this type of cell reproduction, asexual, discovered by Flemming, functions for cellular repair
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Meiosis
Definition
Recombination would be seen during this type of cellular reproduction, sexual, discovered by Hertwig, doesn't function for cellular repair
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Hemophilia
Definition
"free bleeding"
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Huntington's Disease
Definition
fatal disease which leads to death by the 40s
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Sickle Cell
Definition
more often seen in blacks
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cystic fibrosis
Definition
leads to difficulties in breathing
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PKU
Definition
inability to process phenylalanine
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3 types of study designs in developmental psychology
Definition
cross-sequential, cross sectional, longitudinal
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Gamete
Definition
sex cell
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zygote
Definition
fertilized egg
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Turner's syndrome
Definition
XO
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Klinefelter's Syndrome
Definition
XXY
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other terms for nonidentical twins
Definition
Fraternal, Dizygotic
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other terms for identical twins
Definition
maternal, monozygotic
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independent
Definition
variable manipulated by the experimentor
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dependent
Definition
variable measured as a result
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4 types of prenatal testing
Definition
amniocentesis, CVS, ultrasound, Alpha-fetoprotein assay
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Vygotsky
Definition
developed the sociocultural theory
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Brofenbrenner
Definition
posited the ecological theory
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Freud's 5 psychosexual stages in order
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oral, anal, phallic, latent, genital
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2 types of intelligence
Definition
crystallized and fluid
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Schaie
Definition
2 types of intelligence
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Psychosocial
Definition
term used to describe Erikson's 8 stages
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Locke
Definition
believed children at birth had a mind that was a blank slate
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tabula rasa
Definition
blank slate
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Rousseau
Definition
believed children were inherently "good"
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3 types of behavioral learning
Definition
classical conditioning, operant conditioning, observational learning
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3 behavioral theorists
Definition
Bandura, Pavlov, Skinner
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Lorenz
Definition
studied imprinting in geese
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ethnology
Definition
ex: imprinting in geese
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Piaget
Definition
proposed a stage theory of cognitive development
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Schemes
Definition
organized mental patterns that represent behaviors and actions
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Assimilation
Definition
when people use their current ways of thinking
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Accommodation
Definition
changing the way things are perceived
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2 theorists associated with humanistic perspective
Definition
Rogers and Maslow
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FAP
Definition
ex: nest building
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Binet
Definition
devised the first IQ test
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Hall
Definition
made child development an academic discipline
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3 parts of a neuron
Definition
axon, soma, dendrites
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4 piagetian stages in order
Definition
sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, formal operations
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3 disorders on the autism spectrum
Definition
Asperger's, Rett's, Childhood Disintergrative
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4 symptoms of autism
Definition
echolalia, ritualized behaviors, mutism, self injurious
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cephalocaudal
Definition
from head to tail
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proximodistal
Definition
from near to far
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Ainsworth
Definition
4 patterns of attachment
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4 patterns of attachment
Definition
Avoidant, Secure, Ambivalent, Disorganized-Disoriented
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Harlow
Definition
demostrated contact comfort using surrogate mothers
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Myelin Sheath
Definition
fatty covering found on some axons
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2 types of grasp
Definition
pincher, ulnar
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Syntax
Definition
rules of language
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2 terms that describe stunted development
Definition
maramus and failure to thrive
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habituation
Definition
when an infant becomes used to a stimulus
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object permanence
Definition
peekaboo
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telegraphic
Definition
type of speech with only essential words
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Bayley Scales
Definition
measure of infant "intelligence"
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morphemes
Definition
smallest unit of meaning
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2 examples of prelinguistic vocalization
Definition
cooing and babbling
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Wernicke's
Definition
language reception part of the brain
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Broca's
Definition
language expression part of the brain
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Chomsky
Definition
proposed the concept of LAD
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Skinner
Definition
suggested a behavioral explanation for the acquisition of language
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Shaping
Definition
describes successive approximation to desired goal behaviors
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Dennis and Dennis
Definition
3 types of temperaments in infants
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3 types of temperaments in infants
Definition
easy, difficult, slow to warm
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Gibson and Walk
Definition
visual cliff
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Thomas and Chess
Definition
studied motor development of Hopi infants
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5 components of APGAR scale
Definition
Appearance, pulse, grimace, activity level, respiratory effect
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Lamaze
Definition
natural childbirth
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efface
Definition
another term for dilation
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anoxia
Definition
lack of oxygen
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Rh incompatibility
Definition
caused by a difference in parental blood type
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fetal viability
Definition
ability to survive outside the womb
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3 stages of prenatal development in order
Definition
germinal, embryonic, fetal
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placenta
Definition
expelled during the 3rd stage of delivery
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episiotomy
Definition
surgical incision made during delivery
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Braxton-hicks contractions
Definition
false labor
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doula
Definition
birth coach
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c-section
Definition
surgical delivery used after breech presentation
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postpartum depression
Definition
"baby blues"
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epidural
Definition
spinal block used to reduce pain
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5 reflexes
Definition
rooting, Babinski, Moro, grasping, stepping
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2 causes of male infertility
Definition
tight underwear, age
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2 threats to developing fetus
Definition
maternal drug usage and rubella
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