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Chapter 5 and 6
Psychology chapter 5&6
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
03/07/2012

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Sensorimotor
Definition

Birth-2 

looking, hearing, touching, 

Object premanence, stranger danger

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Pre-Operational
Definition

2-6 years

Intuition VS. Logic

pretend play, egocentrism, brother, tv

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Concrete Operational
Definition

7-11 years

Concret analogies

arithmietic, converation, mathmatical transformations

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Formal Operational
Definition

12 years-adult

Abstract thinking

Abstract logic, mature moral reasoning

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pre-conventional Morality
Definition
Vefore age 9 avoid punishment and get rewards self interest
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conventional Morality
Definition
Early adolesence uphold laws because they are the rules
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post conventional morality
Definition
Abstract reasoning. What is right fows from people's rights, self-difined basic ethical principles
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Trust Vs. mistrust
Definition

0-1 

infants develop a sense of trust in the world

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autonomy Vs. shame
Definition

1-3 

toddlers do for themselves or doubt there ability

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Initiative Vs. Guilt
Definition

3-6

Pre-schoolers learn to initate tasks or they feel guilty about their efforts to be independent

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Industry Vs. Inferority
Definition

6-12

Children learn to pleasure of applying themselves or they feel inferor

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Identity Vs. Role confusion
Definition

13-20

Teenagers find a role for themselves or they are condused about who they are

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Intimancy Vs. isolation
Definition

20-40 

tind close relationships and intimancy or feel socially isolated

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Generativity Vs. Stagnation
Definition

40-60

Contribute to the world with work or family or feel lack of purpose

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integrity Vs. Despair
Definition

60-

Refecting on life may feel satisfaction or failure

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Egocentrism
Definition
The preoperational child's difficulty to take anothers point of view
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Conservation of numbers and volume
Definition
Properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of object (concrete operational)
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Object permanence
Definition
the awareness that an object still exist even when they cannot be seen 
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stranger anxiety
Definition
at about 8 children will ore lickly respond to strangers with tears and distress 
Term
Embryo
Definition
The developing human being form 2 weeks after fertilization through the sencond month
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Fetus
Definition
The developing human organism form 9 weeks after conception to birth
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Teratogens
Definition
Agents, such as chemicals, viruses, that can cause development harm to an embryo
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Fetal alchol syndrome
Definition
physical and cognative abnormalityies in children caused by their mothers havey drinking during pregnancy
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Attachment
Definition
Survival impule that leads infants to seek closeness with their caregivers
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secure attachment
Definition
Infants play comfortably in the presence of their mother, when their mother leaves they are distressed when she returns, they seek contack with her
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Insecure attachment
Definition
child is less likely to explore surrondings they may even cling to their mother. When she leaves, they either cry loudly and remaine upset or seem indifferent to her departure and return. 
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matiuration
Definition
Biological grownth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relativly uninfluenced by experience (walking, bladder control, bowl movements)
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Cognition
Definition
the mental activities related to thinking, knowing, remebering, and communicating
Term
Authoritarian
Definition
Impose rules and expect obediance
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Permissive
Definition
Give into children's desires. little punishment few demands on child
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Authoriatative
Definition
Demanding and responsive, setting rules and encourage open disscussion and allow some exceptions especially with older children
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Crystallized intelligence
Definition
accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age
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Fluid intelligence
Definition
aour ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tens to decrease during late adulthood
Term
Criticism of Piaget theory
Definition
todays researchers see development as more continuous then did Piaget. By detecting the beginings of each type of thinking at an earlier age, they have revealed conceptual abilities Piaget missed. Moreover, they see formal logic as a smaller part of conceptual abilites. 
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Criticism of Kohlbergs theory
Definition
The postconventional leve is more controversial. it appears mostly in European and North American ducated middle class, Which prizes individualism- giving priority to one's own goals rather than to group goals, they have said his thory is biased against the moral reasoning of members of collectivist societies such as China and India
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Criticism of Erikson's theory
Definition
Todays early sexual maturity si related both to increased body fat and to weakend parent-child bonds including absent fathers. Together delay independance adn earlier sexual maturity have widend the once-belief interlude between biological maturity and social independence. 
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Sensation
Definition
Our sensory receptors and nervous system recieve and represent stimulus energy from the enviroment
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Perception
Definition
the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningul objects and events
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Top down processing
Definition
informaiton processing guided by heiher level mental processes, as in constructing perception based on experience and expectiaons
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Bottom up processing
Definition
analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain
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absolute threshold
Definition
the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50%of the time
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Subliminal perception
Definition
Stimulus below ones absoulte thereshold
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Priming
Definition
The activation often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memor or response
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effects on consumers
Definition
hoping ot penetrate our unconscious, entrepreneurs offer recordings that supposedly speak directly to our brain to help us lose weight, stop smoking, or improve our memories, masked by soothing ocean sounds, unheard mesages will, they say, influence our behavior
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Weber's law
Definition
the perinciple that to be perceived as different, tow stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage (rather then a constant amount)
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Sensory abaptation
Definition
diminished sensitivity due to constant stimulation of one of our senses
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Blindsight
Definition
Person with a stroke or surgery to their brain's visual cortex may experiance a localized area of blindness in part of their field of vision
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Olfaction
Definition
smell, primitive sense relates to memories, hotline between where brain recives olfactory information and where it stores memories. 
Term
Audition
Definition
The sense or acto fo hearing sound waves strike one ear sooner and with more intensity than the other ear our brain computes the sound location People who lose hearing in one ear have diffculty locating sounds
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kinesthesis
Definition
senses movement and position o idndividual body parts 
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Phantom limb sensations
Definition
7 - 10 amputies may feel pain or movement in nonexistent limbs
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gestalt
Definition
An organized whole, or pattern we tend to integrate pieces of information into an organized whole
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figure ground
Definition
the figure is what we attend to and the ground is the rest of the surronding
Term
Esp
Definition
perception can occur without sensory imput, includes telepathy clairvoyancy, and precongation
Term
Parapsychology
Definition
the study of paranormal phenomena
Term
Endorphins
Definition
"morphine within" natural opiat like neruotransmitters linked to pain control and pleasure
Term
Depth perception
Definition
The ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional allows us to judge distance
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