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| the scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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| Down Syndrome is caused by.. |
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| Nature Vs. Nurture Controversy |
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genetic code vs. your experience i.e, how you are raised
Both have an impact on most areas of developtment |
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| the basic building blocks of heredity |
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| 4 stages of cognitive development |
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| as you get older your moral reasoning improves |
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| studied grief and death and dying |
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| areas that decline as we age |
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your sensory systems
functioning of your immune system
and cognitive skills |
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| authorative parents result in what type of child |
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| 1 positive effect of day care |
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| sweet, sour, salty and bitter |
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| touch, cold, warthm, pain, pressure |
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| process of organizing sensations to form your image of the world |
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| mechanical process that stimulates the senses and transmits the sensory info to your brain |
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| three kind of stimuli that get our attention |
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novel (unique)
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something that happens over and over again |
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| Freud's 3 levels of consciousness |
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preconscious
unconscious
the conscious |
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| involuntary moving of painful memories out of yourmind |
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| voluntarily put something out of your mind |
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| when most vivid dreams happen |
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| inability to fall asleep or if you fall asleep you can't stay asleep |
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| sleep problems increase with |
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| a relatively permanent change in behavior that comes from practice or experience |
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| objects with similar characteristics get the same name |
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| classical conditioning- stimulus and response |
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| adults frequently reinforce undesirable behaviors in children by |
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| pushing them or paying attention |
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| stimuli that increase the frequency of a behavior |
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| increases the desired behavior when you use it |
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| increases the desired behavior when you take it away |
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| slows down body processes as the person puts problems out of their mind |
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techniques to stimulate your memory
i.e, PEMDAS |
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| you take the material you need to learn and break it down into smaller pieces |
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| an experience so intense you remember it as a photo |
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| techniques that can help you recall |
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.study in the same conditions in which you take the test
.tie information to stuff you already know
.use acronymns or mnemonic devices
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| communication of thoughts and feelings using symbols and grammar rules |
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| a specific procedure for solving a problem |
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| a shortcut to solving a problem but you don't always get the right answer |
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| look where you are now, and look at your goal and figure out how to get to your goal |
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mental categories used to group items with similar properties
i.e, color= red blue yellow etc. |
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| mental activity involved in understanding, processing and communicating information |
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| when do the child's first true word appear: |
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| prelinguistic vocalization |
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| aha! moment. a moment when the solution becomes obvious |
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| Human intelligence allows us to: |
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. adapt to changing conditions
. meet physical challenges & to think about abstraction |
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WSIC Wechsler Scales of Intelligence for Children
Performance and verbal IQ score which are then average |
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| compares the mental age divided by the chronological age |
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| theory of multiple intelligences |
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narrowing down the choices in order to reach a conclusion
i.e, multiple choice tests |
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| more creative-coming up with as many possible solutions to a problem as you can think of |
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| requires a person to have certain cultural experiences in order to perform well on the task |
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| what can you do to enhace intellectual functioning in a young child |
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.play with the child and use plenty of verbal communication
.provide toys that require creative use
. read books, play counting games, do puzzles
.encourage problem solving skills and independence |
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| hormone tied to aggressive behavior |
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| ability to come up with new and useful situation to a problem |
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| what other factors contribute to agression |
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| stress, anxiety, extreme heat, very hungry, sleep depriviation |
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persistent gross disturbance in eating patterns
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| food, air, water, proper right temperature, reproduction, waste repelation |
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| it's something that makes your work hard towards a goal |
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| what should you pay attention to if you want to find out what the person speaking to you is really thinking |
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| gesture, facial expression, body language |
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| false auditory or visual perception |
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| false persistent release with no sensory or objective evidence |
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| excessive preoccupation with ones health |
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| ritual behaviors done to reduce anxiety- hand washing |
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| anxiety producing thoughts or images that you can't control |
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| PSTD-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder |
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| physical or psychological effects of traumatic experience; can happen years later- i.e, soldiers coming back from the war |
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| what helps one to figure out if behavior or feeling is evidence of a psychological disorder |
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| is behavior or feeling appropriate for situation you are in? |
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| excessive fear of public scrunity |
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AKA-manic depression
mood swings, super happy-> depressed |
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| when you have to adopt new situation, can cause physical symptoms |
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are always negative
"pain the the butt" things |
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| they happen on occasion and they can be positive or negative |
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