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Psych test ch. 5
Lifespan development
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
10/11/2009

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sensorimotor stage
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#1, exploring the world, object permanence, stranger anxiety
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object permanence
Definition
awareness that objects cont. to exist when not percieved
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stranger anxiety
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ability to evaluate people as unfamiliar and possible threatening
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preoperational stage
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#2, 2-7, lack logical reasoning, lack concept to conservation, ego-centrism, theory of mind begins
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conservation
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the principle that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape
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egocentrism
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child has difficulty taking another persons point of view
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theory of mind
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because you know doesn't mean everyone knows the same things
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concrete operational stage
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#3, 7-11, understand conservation, think logically
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formal operational stage
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#4, 11- adult, abstract reasoning, think about love and freedom,, develop morals
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schema
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concept that organizes and interprets info
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assimilation
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interpreting things in terms of current schemas
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accommodation
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adjust schema to fit new experience
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Piagets theory: current thoughts
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babies might use more logic than Piaget thought, children learn from interactions with the world, young children are not little adults, researchers today see devel. as more cont.
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attachment
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emotional tie with another person
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Harlows attachment study
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2 artificial moms, one wire and one cloth and wire mom holds bottle. monkeys were more attached to the cloth mom because of comfort.
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3 orgins of attachment
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body contact, familiarity, responsive parenting
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life satisfaction over time
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stable over life span, feelings become more mellow, preference for smaller social networks, higher satisfaction seems at the end
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recall memory
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retrieving info without a cue by reproducing what learned (fill in blank questions), declines with age
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recognition memory
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retrieve info using a cue and identify answer with options (multiple choice questions), stable with age
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cross-sectional studies
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age and intelligence, compares people of different ages at the same time, found that intell. declined
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longitudinal studies
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age and intelligence, retests the same people over a period of time, found that intell. remains stable
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crystallized intelligence
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accumulated knowledge, vocab. Remains stable or increases.
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fluid intelligence
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abstract reasoning and how fast info in processed. Decreases with age.
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