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Psych test 1

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Who believed that the mind is a blank slate at birth?   Locke  
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What is nurture vs. nature?   heredity vs. environment  
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What is continuity vs. discontinuity?   changes in friendship (none to several) vs. change in kind or type of friends  
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Maturation   genetically programmed dequential change patterns  
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critical period   when an organism is responsive and learns from a specific type of stimulation  
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sensitive period   time when a particular experience can be best incorporated into the maturational process  
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The concept of original sin states that all children are born...   with a selfish nature  
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Watson's behaviourism   defines development in terms of behaviour changes caused by environmental influences  
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behaviour genetics   genetic contributions to individual behaviour  
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Psychoanalytic Developement Theory   behaviour is governed by unconscious and conscious process  
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Freud:   libido- basic, unconscious, instinct id-source of libido ego-conscious, high up thought superego-morality rigid feeding schedules  
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Cognitive-Information-Processing   child's action on environment and cognitive processing of experiences  
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Piaget   environment does not shape child, children actively seek out understanding of environment  
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Vygotsky   Tasks accomplished with guidance by adults  
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Information processing   how our minds manages information (computer)  
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Cross-sectional design   different people  
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longitudinal design   same people  
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sequential design   both cross-sectional and longitunidal  
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correlation   strength of relationship (zero to high)does not reveal casual relationships  
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experiments   tests a casual hypothesis  
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quasi-experiment   compare groups with randomness  
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human cells contains _____ chromosomes   46  
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gametes have ____ chromosomes each   23  
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Spock   open displays of affection  
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Plato, Descartes   some knowledge inborn  
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Rousseau   Humans seek out experiences that help them grow  
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Rasa   knowledge created from experienceenvironmental factors change development  
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Hall   milestones are an inborn pattern  
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Watson   behaviourism, children can be trained through manipulation of environment (Little albert)  
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Describe maturation, maintenance, facilitation, attunement, induction   maturation-upward curvemaintenance-upward curve with ability to fallfacilitation-ledge curve with escalationattunement-stair stepinduction-upward curve and no curve  
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Piaget Adaptation   Assimilation, accomodation, equilibrium  
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Skinner   Operant conditioning: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, punishment  
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Bandura   social cognitive learning theory- observational or modeling  
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Polygenic inheritance   genes blend together to increase genetic outcome in phenotype  
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Multifactorial patterns   traits influenced by both genes and environment  
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Genomic Imprinting   biochemically marked at time of ova and sperm developement  
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Mitochondrial Inheritance   genes passed only from mother to child  
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genotype   genetic blueprint  
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phenotype   observable characterisitics  
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Brazelton neonatal behavioural assessment   tracks developement of reflexes for 2 weeks  
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