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The three prenatal stages | Germinal, Embryonic, and Fetal |
Germinal | Zygote |
Embryonic | Embryo |
Fetal | Fetus |
Teratogens | Damages that happen to a baby in the womb |
Two common teratogens | Alcohol Tobacco |
what can alcohol do to the baby | facial, brain, and cognitive troubles |
what can tobacco do to the baby | low birth weight, attention problems ---- second embryonic stage |
visual abilities in babies | They respond to pens being close to their face but have terrible far away eye sight |
motor development in babies | most basic level of reflexes like rooting and sucking |
cephalocaudal rule | emerge from head to foot |
proximodistal rule | torso to arms and legs |
if a baby has incentives like a mobile they will develop faster | true |
object permanence | understanding that when you cant see something it is still there...peek a boo |
how old do babies need to be to understand object permanence | 4 month old |
conservation | when you pour a liquid into a different glass the amount of liquid stays the same |
Pre operational stage | 2-6 years old preliminary understanding of physical world |
concrete operational stage | 6-11 years when kids start to understand |
secure attachment style | child was upset or not when caregiver left and when caregiver came back the child was happy |
three insecure attachment styles | avoidance, ambivalent, disorganized |
avoidance | doesnt respond to caregiver leaving or coming back |
Piaget | realism to relativism, prescriptions to principles, outcomes to intentions |
realism to relativism | kids view rules as unbreakable |
prescriptions to principles | flexible rules |
Kholberges | preconventional stage, conventional stage, post conventional stage |
preconventional stage | right and wrong will they get yelled at or not for their action |
conventional stage | social rules, is it against the law |
post conventional stage | morality is determined by moral values |
cognitive changes in later adulthood | neuro connectors start to break down |
TAT test stands for | Thematic Apperception Test |
TAT tests are straight up bullshit | ink blots |
self report inventories | randomized tests a lot less controversial |
Big Fie Factor Model | OCEAN openness to experience, conscientiousness, extra-version, agreeableness, neurotic |
openness to experience | imaginative, independent |
conscientiousness | organized, careful, disciplined |
extraversion | social, fun loving |
agreeableness | soft hearted, trusting, helpful |
neurotic | worried insecure |
trait approach | stable dispositions to behave in a consistent way |
humanistic | inherent potential for personal growth |
existential | individual as responsible agent |
ID (present at birth) | basic primal drives |
Ego | tries to find balance between our primal desires and what society says is the norm |
SUPER ego | learned from parents |
rationalization | making yourself feel like youre right |
reaction formation | hate neighbor but instead you become overly nice to them |
projection | if you are mad at someone and you start asking them why they are mad at you |
regression | immature STEP brothers |
defense mechanisms | unconscious coping mechanisms that reduce anxiety |
displacement | kick the dog syndrome |
identification | take on characteristics of someone else |
sublimation | angry so you go and lift weights because that is more socially acceptable |
person situation controversy | is behavior caused by personality or situation based |
social cognitive approach | how a person thinks about situations and how one responds |
aggression | behavior that has purpose to harm another individual |
frustration aggression hypothesis | if someone or something gets in the way of your goal that is when you become aggressive |
Cooperation | behavior by two or more people that leads to mutual benefit |
risky prisoners dilemma | when two people are doing something to get ahead but one calls out the other and gains better outcome because of it |
prejudice | how you think about someone |
discriminate | how you act towards someone |
deindividuation | becoming less concerned with personal values participating in a riot |
diffusion of responsibility | diminished responsibility for personal action |
altruism | behavior that benefits another without benefiting oneself |
reciprocal altruism | behavior that benefits another or in the future |
cognitive dissonance | the way they act isnt consistent in what they believe |
conformity | doing what others do simply because they are doing it |
normative influences | anothers behavior provides info about what is appropriate elevator inference |
four characteristics of stereotypes | often inaccurate, overused, self perpetuating, automatic |