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Psychology ch. 10-12
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| drive theories | based on the idea of homeostatis, not engaging in certain activities causes you to feel tension (biological) |
| incentive theories | there is an external goal that motivates just for the external rewards |
| weight set point theory | body always tries to go back to a certain weight |
| Masters and Johnson | Husband and wife team who studied human sexuality |
| refractory period | men can't have orgasm for a period of time |
| parental investment theory | refers to what each sex has to invest in terms of time, energy, survival, and risk to produce and nurture offspring |
| sexual orientation | person's preference for emotional and sexual relationships with individuals of same sex, other sex, or both sexes |
| development | the sequence of age-related changes that occur from conception to death |
| zygote | one celled organism (formed from sperm and egg) |
| on the 7th day | the zygote implants on the uterine wall |
| highly vulnerable period | most seceptable to impairments during this stage |
| age of vitality | earliest a baby could be born |
| teratogens | any external agent that could effect baby |
| fetal alcohol syndrome | the problems associated with mother's alcohol cosumption |
| motor development | progression of muscular coordination required for physical activity |
| maturation | genes dictate motor development |
| attachment | close environmental bond between infant and caregiver (usually mother) |
| separation anxiety | emotional distress in child when caregiver is not present |
| Mary Ainsworth | most famous name in attachment |
| secure attachment | cry and protest when mom left, comfort when she came back |
| anxious-ambivalent | inconsistent |
| avoidant | would not cry, would not seek out contact |
| sensorimotor stage | birth to age 2 |
| object permanence | the awareness objects still exist "peek-a-boo" |
| preoperational stage | age 2-7 |
| concrete operational stage | age 7-11 |
| conservation | the realization the qualities are still the same if shape changes |
| formal operational stage | 11-adulthood |
| empty nest | when children leave house |
| personality | individuals unique collection of relativity consistent behavioral traits in other words, our personality tends to be distinctive yet stable across most situation |