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Psychology ch. 10-12
Term | Definition |
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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 |