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David G. Myers Chapters 5-6
Intro to Psych class (..its kind of a joke)
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
03/09/2011

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zygote to embryo takes---?
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14 days
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embryo to fetus takes---?
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9 weeks
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infants rooting reflex
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helps us locate food
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infancy
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newborn to toddler
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childhod
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toddler to teenager, motor skills, memory, understand developing brain
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maturation
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development of brain, babble b4 talk, stand b4 walk
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motor development
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6 months sit, 15 months walk
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5 year old
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sense of self is developed, long term memory
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cognitive development
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shaped by errors we make, Piaget
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cognitive development
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shaped by errors we make, Piaget
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schema
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mental mold into which we pour our experiences
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assimilation
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incorp. new exp's into our current understanding
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accomadation
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adjusting a schema and modifying it seperate it
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**Piaget's theory and current thinking table
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sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
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**sensorimotor(0-2)
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experiencing world through senses and actions (object permanance, stranger anxiety)
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**preoperational(2-7)
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representing things with words and images (pretend play, egocentrism)
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**concrete operational(7-11)
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thinking logicall about concrete events, grasping analogies (conservation, adding/sub)
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**formal operational(12-life)
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abstract reasoning (abstract logic, potential for mature moral reasoning)
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stranger anxiety
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fear of strangers around 8 months, form schemas of familiar faces
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**origins of attachment
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Harlow(1971)showed that infants bond w/ surrogate mothers b/c of bodily contact and not nourishment
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2 origins of attachment
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familiarity, imprinting
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attachments diff's
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60% children express secure attachment, play with mom in room, destress without mom
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relaxed and attentive caregiving
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backbone of secure attachment
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insecure attachment
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sad if mom leaves
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secure attachment acheived by
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relaxed and attentive mothers
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seperation anxiety
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peaks at 13 months, whether day care or at home
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prolonged deprivation
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parental support deprived long, then children at risk for physical and psychological and social problems
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**child rearing practices
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authoritarian-imposes rules and expects obedience.
permissive-parents submit to children's demands.
authoritative-parents are demanding, but responsive to their children
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puberty
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secondary characteristics, maturation of breasts, hips, frontal cortex
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developing morality
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Kohlberg moral development in adolescents
preconventional(before age 9 avoid punishment gain reward), conventional(early adolescence social rules and laws),postconventional(personally perceived ethical principles)
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**Erikson's 8 stages
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trust vs. mistrust(0-1)
autonomy vs. shame and doubt(1-3)
initiative vs. guilt (3-6)
industry vs. inferiority (6-13)
Identity vs. role confusion (13-20)
Intimacy vs. Isolation (20-40)
Generality vs. Stagnation (40-60)
Integrity vs. Despair (60-dead)
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neural processes slow down at
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80
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fluid intelligence
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ability to reason speedily
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crystalline intelligence
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accumulated knowledge and skills
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bottom up processing
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sensory analysis starts at the entry level
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top down processing
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our minds interpret what senses detect
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psychophysics
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study or relation btw physical stimuli and our psychological experience of them
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absolute threshold
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minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time
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signal detection theory
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how and when we detect the prescence of a faint stimulus(signal) amid background (noise)
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subliminal stimuli
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below threshold
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prime your response
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activate certain associations to retrieve memories
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difference threshold
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noticeable difference minimum difference a person can detect btw 2 stimuli
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Weber's law
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to be perceived as diff, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum perentage
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sensory adaptation
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diminished sensitivity as a result of constant stimulation
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transduce
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transform light energyto neural messages in our brain
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parts of eye
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pupil, iris, lens, retina
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feature detector
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nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus(shape,angle,movement)
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parallel processing
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processing of many aspects of a problem simeltaneously
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scene is made up of
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retinal processing, feature definition, partial processing, recognition
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Young-Hemboltlz three color theory
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the retina contains thee diff color receptors(red green blue)
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opponent process theory
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opposing retinal processes(red-green,yellowblue, whiteblack) enable color vision
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audition
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hearing
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middle ear
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concentrates vibrations of eardrum
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cochlea
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makes sound waves to trigger ear impulses
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inner ear
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contains cochlea,semicircular canals,vestibular sacs
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place theory
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diff pitches at diff places along cochlea's membrane
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Frequency Theory
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brain reads pitch by monitoring the frequency of neural impulses traveling up the auditory nerve.
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conduction hearing loss
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problems with sound waves
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sensorineural hearing loss
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nerve deafness, aging or earsplitting noise
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cochlear implant
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electronic device that converts sounds into signals and stimulates auditory nerve
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sensory interaction
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one sense influences another(taste and smell)
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gestalt
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an organized whole. tendency to integrate pieces of info into meaningful wholes
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grouping(5)
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proximity, similarity,continuity,connectedness, closure
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depth perception
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the ability to see objects in #D that look 2D
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retinal disparity
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provides one important binocular cue to the relative distance of diff objects
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phi phenomenon
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an illusion of movement created when 2 or more adjacent lights blink on and off quickly
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perceptual set
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mental predisposition
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ESP
Definition
without sensory input(telepathy,claivoyance,precognition)
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