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In the brain stem
Links sensory perception to the cortex |
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| How many brain cells does the average human have? |
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| Smell and executive function; Personality |
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| What parts of the brain are in the central nervous system? |
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Brain
Spinal Chord
12 Cranial nerves |
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| What parts of the brain are in the Peripheral Nervous System |
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Somatic
Autonomic
Sensory Neurons
Motor Neurons |
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In the brain step
responsible for the vital functions |
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In the brain stem
Sleep and arousal |
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In the brain stem
Responsible for focus |
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Damage causes problems with speech or writing
Grammar and punctuation are poor
“bife” instead of “wife |
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| “stool” when shown a picture of a chair |
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MAIN GLAND
Sleeping, Melatonin |
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| Responsible for growth hormone and dwarfism, gigantiscism IM TOO LAZY TO SPELL |
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| Responsible for growth hormone and dwarfism, gigantiscism IM TOO LAZY TO SPELL |
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| Provides epinephrine, adrenaline |
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| subjects exposed to treatment |
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| Subjects not exposed to treatment, provides point of reference for comparison |
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| Conditions altered by experimenter |
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| conditions researcher wishes to prevent from affecting the outcome of experiment |
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| In-depth focus on all aspects of a single person |
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Same as zygote
First two weeks |
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Fetus
From eight weeks until birth |
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| harmful substances capable of altering fetal development |
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| biological, relatively uninfluenced by environment |
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| A condition met allowing rapid acquisition of skill |
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| Loss of normal environment |
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| exactly what it sounds like |
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1962
Imprinting
Guy with the ducklings |
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| Instinctive, relatively permanent type of learning that occurs during a limited period of life |
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| (63%) stable positive emotional bond |
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| (22%) anxious emotional bond marked by tendency to avoid reunion with caregiver |
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| (10%) anxious emotional bond marked by desire to be and not be with caregiver |
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| Mutual Gaze Transactions: |
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| are psychobiological transmissions between mother and infant, where the mother must be psychobiologically attuned to the infants internal state |
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| all mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering |
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| Concept or framework that organizes and interprets information |
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| interpreting new experiences into a schema |
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| adapting one’s current schemas to incorporate new information |
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Sensorimotor Stage
Preoperational Stage
Concrete Operational Stage
Formal Operations: |
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0-2 years
Object permanence |
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| an understanding that objects continue to exist when they are out of sight |
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2-7 years
Symbolic thinking appears
Mostly intuitive
Egocentric Thinking: unable to take viewpoint of another
Theory of Mind: the ability to take the perspective of |
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| Concrete Operational Stage |
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7-11 years
Law of Conservation
Use time, space, and number concepts concretely
Reversibility of thought occurs during this stage |
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11 years and up
Abstract Principles |
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| : thinking about one’s thoughts, hypothetical possibilities |
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| proposed children learn though dialogues with more capable persons |
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| process of adjusting instruction so that is it responsive to a beginner’s behavior and supports the efforts to understand a problem or gain a mental skill |
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Humanistic
Dual Instinct proposition
Very into dreams and unconscious
Sex with mom and dad theory
Id Ego and Super ego |
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Pleasure Principle: Eros- Seek pleasure, avoid pain
Death Instinct: Thanatos- an urge in life to restore an earlier state of things |
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| occurs when we act without any obvious rewards |
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| occurs when we act due to external factors, grades, rewards, money, etc. |
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| Robert Pluthik’s 8 Primary Emotions |
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Fear
Surprise
Sadness
Disgust
Anger
Anticipation
Joy
Trust |
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Low Arousal- performance low
High Arousal- performance low
Optimal level of arousal will improve performance |
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| Excessive arousal is almost always certain to reduce performance |
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Larger cycle of arousal
Daily, large changes in body temperature, blood pressure, and amino acid levels |
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| Ventromedial hypothalamus |
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| keeps blood sugar levels steady |
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Global capacity to act purposefully, to think rationally, and deal effectively with the environment.
Usually reasoning, problem-solving, knowledge, and memory are key characteristics of intelligence |
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| Capacity for learning certain abilities |
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Possession of a high IQ or special talents
Signs- seeking out older children and adults, early fascination with problem solving, talking in complete sentences by 2 or 3. |
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| Testing for Intelligence: |
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General Intelligence Tests
WAIS
Special Aptitude Test
Clerical work ability
Multiple Aptitude Tests
SAT
Achievement Tests
Psychology Test |
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| mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100 |
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| recieve input into the cell body |
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Covered by the Mycelin Sheath
Grey
Output of the cell
Covered in the grey stuff as lubricant |
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| Gates, let potassium flow in |
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| Charles Whitman Case Study |
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Student at University of Texas at Austin 1966
Grew up in upper-middle class family
Excelled in academics, well liked
Abused by father
Enlisted in the Marine Corps |
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August 1st, 1966
Using five assault rifles killed 14, wounded 32 others
Killed his wife and mother |
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| Brainstem level of consciousness |
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| Global state of being awake, aware, and alert |
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Convergence zone, map of musculoskeletal body
Consists of fluctuating coupling of current stat of self with current state of object world |
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Consciousness of consciousness
Autobiographical self |
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| A persons unique pattern of thinking, emotions, and behavior |
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| Traits shared by most members of a culture |
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| Describe an individuals uniqueness |
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| Core traits that characterize an individual |
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| A trait so basic it almost defines the person |
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| Inconsistent or superficial traits |
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Extroversion: interpersonal vs. intrapersonal
Agreeableness: friendly vs. indifferent
Conscientious: responsible vs. undependable
Neuroticism: anxious
Openness to experience |
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| operates under the pleasure principle, basic, primal |
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Operates under the reality principle, part of you in class, learning this
Directs the energies of the id |
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| operates as the internalized parent |
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infant’s pleasure comes from mouth
Fixation leads to oral-dependent personality |
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child between 1 and 3
Toilet training
Fixation leads to anal-retentive personality, someone who is compulsive, stingy |
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childhood between 3 and 6
Child becomes aware of sexuality
Narcissist, Oedipal conflict or Electra complex |
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| not a stage rather a quite time |
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| puberty to full adult sexuality |
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Hidden forces which hold repressed memories, emotions, and drives
Evidence of the unconscious, Freudian slips and dream images
Modern research confirms repressive action of Limbic system |
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College of Freud’s from Switzerland
Throughout Freud’s view of the unconscious was too restrictive.
Collective Unconscious: |
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Conceptualized a collective unconscious shared by all humans
Think collection of images/potentials, and think community
Structured by Archetypes: image potentials filled in by a culture |
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Collection of learned behavioral patterns
Learning theories reject the idea that personality is made up of traits
Situations determine behavior and our personality |
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Actions are affected by our expectancy
Reinforcement value is the subjective value one attaches to a particular activity
Expected reinforcement value vs. past reinforcement value
Self-reinforcement: rewarding self for having made a particular response |
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Maslow and Self-Actualization
Positive Psychology: Positive Personality Traits
Humanistic view of development
Humanism – Rogers
Self-Theory
Self is a flexible and changing perception of personal identity
Personal structure
Self-Image representation of body and personality
Incongruent personality
Ideal self, self image and true self are not matched
Congruent personality
All matched up |
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