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| Psychodynamic Perspective |
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-Freud
-Focused on the role of subconscious mind on conscious behavior. |
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-Skinner
-Focused on how people learn behavior through classic or operant conditioning. |
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-Maslow & Rogers
-Focused on people's free will and self-actualization of their full potential. |
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-Gestalt
-Focused on memory, intelligence, thought processes, and perception. |
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| Sociocultural Perspective |
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-Vygotsky
-Focused on social behavior and culture. (How people effect other people) |
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| Biopsychological Perspective |
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| -Focused on attributing behavior to biological events occurring in the body such as genetic influences, hormones, and nervous system activity. |
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-Darwin
-Focused on the biological basis of universal mental characteristics that all humans share. |
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| 5 Steps of Scientific Method |
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1. Ask question
2. Hypothesis
3. Test hypothesis
4. Conclusion
5. Report Results
(A.H.T.C.R.) |
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| Watching subjects behave in natural environment. |
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| Watching subjects behave in a laboratory setting. |
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| Study of one individual in great detail. |
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| Collecting data for research by administering sets of questions. |
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| Randomly selected subjects from a larger population of subjects. |
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| A number derived from a formula that measures a correlations strength and direction. |
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| As one variable increases, the other does too. |
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| As one variable increases, the other decreases. |
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| The two variables are not related. |
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| The cause in the experiment. |
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| The effect in the experiment. |
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| Subjects who are subjected to the independent variable. |
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| Subjects who are not subjected to independent variable. |
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| Assigning subjects to experimental or control group at random. |
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| Expectations of subjects in a study can influence their behavior. |
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| Subjects do not know whether they are in experimental or control group. Researchers know. |
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| One participant or a group of participants are studied over a long period of time. |
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| Several different participation-age groups are studied at one point in time. |
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| The influence of our inherited characteristics. |
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| The influence of the environment on us. |
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Identical twins.
Come from one fertilized egg. |
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Fraternal twins.
Come from two different fertilized eggs. |
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| The set of involuntary behavior patterns that exist in infants from birth. |
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1. Grasping
2. Startle
3. Rooting (Moro)
4. Stepping
5. Sucking |
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| Piaget's Stages of Development |
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1. Sensorimotor
2. Preoperational
3. Concrete Operations
4. Formal Operations |
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Birth to 2 years.
Uses senses and motor abilities to interact with the world around them. |
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| Preoperational Development |
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2 to 7 years.
Mentally represent/refer to objects and events with words, pictures and they can pretend. Cannot logically reason. |
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| Concrete Operations Development |
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7 to 12 years old.
Able to conserve, reverse thinking. Can classify object and think logically but only about concrete events. |
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| Formal Operations Development |
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12 to adulthood.
Can use abstract reasoning, think logically, and test hypothesis. |
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-Smell is well developed
-Touch is well developed
-Taste is developed (babies have preference for sweet)
-Hearing is functional before birth but takes a while to reach full power.
-Vision is functional but baby cannot see in color depth |
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1. Cooing
2. Babbling
3. One-Word Speech
4. Telegraphic Speech |
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| The brain and spinal cord. |
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| Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) |
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Transmits info from central nervous system
Autonomic & Somatic |
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Automatically regulates glands, blood pressure, digestion, etc.
Parasympathetic & Sympathetic Divisions |
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| Controls skeletal muscles. Carries sensory information. |
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| Maintains body functions. Saves energy. |
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| Prepares body to expend energy in time of stress. |
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Basic cell that makes up nervous system.
Receives/Sends messages. |
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| Tube-like structure that carries the neural messages to other cells. |
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| Branchlike structures that receive messages to other neurons. |
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| Cell body of a neuron. Responsible for keeping neuron alive. |
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| Branches at the end of the axon. |
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| Saclike structures found inside synaptic knob containing chemicals. |
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| Fluid filled space between synaptic knob and dendrites or surface of cells. |
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| Release of neural impulse consisting of the reversal of the electrical charge within an axon. |
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