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Developmental Psychology

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Erikson differences from Freud   he believed that social needs were the most important determinants.  
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Erikson's Theory   each stage of life is characterized by attempts to resolve a particular social need.  
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Bowlby's Theory   He claimed that children's need for a comforting, secure adult figure was evolutionarily advantageous since it helped prevent the child from entering into dangerous situations. Thus children have an innate need for a caregiver: they become distressed in t  
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Aids in memory retrival   associations, context, and mood.  
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Retroactive interference   the forgetting of old information when new information is learned. An example: Frank learned Spanish in high school. Since he took French 101 in college, however, he can’t remember very much of his Spanish.  
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Example of inductive reasoning   drawing conclusions about all members of a group based on one  
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Syllogisms   arguements made up of 2 propositions called premises  
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Compliance   change in external behavior  
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Private acceptance   change in attitude  
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Internalization   strong social response based on desire to be right - hard to change  
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major functions of spinal cord   acts as messenger to brain, filters sensory impulses  
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function of vestibular organ   sense of balance, provides info about movements & body positions  
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Function of Thalamus   relay center for sensory impulses  
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Function of autonomic system   directs activity of smooth muscles & glands  
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Serial learning   list learned in a sequence  
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Iconic stage, Bruner Theory   knowledge of world is based on images that stand for perceptual events - usually visual images  
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Template matching theory   internal representation of pattern is similar to stimulus pattern  
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Types of verbal learning   serial, free-recall,paied-associate, serial-antcipation  
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Morpheme   smallest unit of meaning "boy"  
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Kernel   basic thought of the sentence  
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Variable-ratio schedule   highest rate of results  
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Shaping   Information should be presented in small amounts so that responses can be reinforced  
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Variable Interval   the first correct response after a set amount of time has passed is reinforced. After the reinforcement, a new time period (shorter or longer) is set with the average equaling a specific number over a sum total of trials.  
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Technique of variable ratio   a reinforcer is given after a set number of correct responses. After reinforcement the number of correct responses necessary for reinforcement changes.  
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Formal operations   11 - adult capable of thinking logically and abstractly. They can also reason theoretically.  
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Concrete operations   able to take into account another person’s point of view and consider more than one perspective simultaneously, with their thought process being more logical, flexible, and organized than in early childhood. They can also represent transformations as well  
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limitations of concrete operations   cannot yet contemplate or solve abstract problems, and that they are not yet able to consider all of the logically possible outcomes.  
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For piaget, beginning of cognitive development   Sensorimotor stage  
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Nativist   perception in an inate mechanisim  
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Empiricist   perceptions are learned based on past experiences  
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Constructionist view   reality constructed by senses  
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Reaction Formation (defense mechanisms)   behaving in the opposite way of one's feelings  
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independent variable   the thing that is MANIPULATED  
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Dependent variable   the RESPONSE measured  
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Anchoring   when you estimate a problem's probability of occurance and make adjustments to it when presented w/ new info - tends to be small adjustments  
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Preoperational stage   can symbolize  
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Concrete operations   conservation, reversability  
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Identity crisis   in moratorium stage - trying to construct commitments  
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Foreclosed   beliefs come from others without questioning  
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Identity diffusion   no commitments and no effort to construct them - lack of identity and no attempt to get one  
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Superego   Moral aspect  
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Ecological System   children's thoughts & actions must be understood in the context of their settings  
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agonistic behaviors   aggression & fighting  
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prosocial behaviors   cooperation, sharing, praise  
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Second - order opperations (formal operations)   performed on other operations rather than on reality itself  
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Representational intelligence   preoperational stage  
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information processing   emphasis on mental representation and process  
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Mesosystem   relationship of individuals w/ several settings  
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Exosystem   involvement with several settings which do not effect the child (parrent's workplace)  
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Macrosystem   culture  
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Vygotsy interactive approach   thinking and language have different origins but once combined influence each other  
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inner speech   early speech precusor to thought  
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Metacognitive ability   the ability to think about one's own cognitive abilities  
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Relativism   reasoning seen as completely personal - there are no standards  
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Isolation of variables   the study technique is varied, whereas 2 other varriables are held constant  
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Abselutisim   niave belief in a truth and unquestioning authority  
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"We saw 2 sheepes on the farm"   Morphemes - aware of gramatical ENDINGS  
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Child combines the word "two" with many other words   Syntax- combining of words even in incorrect order  
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"What you doing?"   Pragmatics - indirect request that is trying to reach a goal  
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Infant calls many items a "rona"   Semantics - word meaning  
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Child says "bat" instead of "bad"   Phoneme - t & d is a phonemic distinction and the 2 letters are critical to understanding meanings of words  
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Begins at age 7 / involves reversability   Concrete operations  
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Identity crisis   Erikson  
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Foreclosed   directly influenced views by others  
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Moro reflex   caused by startling stimuli  
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Babinski reflex   stroking the bottom of foot  
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Rooting reflex   when infant face is touched, they look for source of food  
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Decentration   concentrating on 2 or more sepects of problem  
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Limited to observed realities   Preoperational  
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Decenters to consider 2 dimensions   Concrete operations  
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Able to think about the process of change   Concrete Operations  
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Cognition happens first and language is a reflection of that   Piaget  
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Language and thought develop in seperate, paralell straems   Vygotsky  
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Language becomes a tool for thought   Vygotsky  
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Syntatic stage   where sentences are produced  
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Post-conventional   Social Contract, Conscience  
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Conventional   Law & order  
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Pre-conventional   Obedience & punishment  
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Bruner   Cognitive structure (i.e., schema, mental models) provides meaning and organization to experiences and allows the individual to "go beyond the information given".  
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Vygotsky   the potential for cognitive development depends upon the "zone of proximal development" (ZPD): a level of development attained when children engage in social behavior. Full development of the ZPD depends upon full social interaction.  
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Analog code   Shepard & Metzler - storage of mental images based on a representation that closely resembles an object  
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Cognitive map   what is where - location of information  
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From the general to the specific   Deductive reasoning  
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Mental Set   tendency to persist with old methods of problem solving even when they are not effective  
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Confirmation Bias   tendency to confirm rather than refute even when there is strong evidence that hypothesis is wrong - ignoring info that conflicts with your theory  
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Object permanance   ability to represent or think about object that you are not directly acting with (ootta sight, outa mind)  
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Irreversability, centration, egocentrisim   the potential for cognitive development depends upon the "zone of proximal development" (ZPD): a level of development attained when children engage in social behavior. Full development of the ZPD depends upon full social interaction. reoperational  
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Accomodation   Changing scheme based on understanding  
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Assimilation   Interpreting event based on our current scheme or thought structure  
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Adaptation   Modifying scheme to fit new experience. Consists of assimilation + accomodation  
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Semantic coding   based on meaning  
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Structural coding - selective attention   based on visual codes - what information looks like  
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Phonemic coding   stored on acoustic codes - what it sounds like  
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Pimacy effect   Information presented first will likely be remembered  
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Recency effect   info at the end of list likely to be remembered  
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Grammar   includes syntax & phonetics (how sounds put together)  
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Transformational grammar theory   Chomsky - when sentence heard, we don't retain surface structure, we transform it to deep structure (underlying meaning)  
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Strange situation - Ainsworth   study of attachment  
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Biological approach to aggression   Lorenz, role in the survival of humans  
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Instrumental aggression vs. hostile aggression   being blocked from goals, percieved threat & malice  
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2 Views on agression   Social leaning (modeling) & social cognition (perception of threat)  
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unconditioned stimulus   stimulus thatinvokes a natural response  
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conditioned response   learned response  
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stimulus generalization   responds to a new stimulus as if it were the old one  
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stimulus discrimination   failure to respond to a ne stimulus when generated in place of old one  
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higher order conditioning   neutral stimulus acts as a conditioned stimulusby being paired with another stimulus that evokes a conditioned response  
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Imprinting - Lorenz   infants learn that the first thing they see is their mother  
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individuals first encounter with rules   anal stage  
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period where no developmental events occur / from 7 - puberty   Latency stage  
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Contains the drive   ID  
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Unconditioned positive regard   Carl Rogers  
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Person operates on environment   operational learning  
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stimulus that has become associated with the unconditioned stimulus   conditioned stimulus  
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Han notices a change in his behavior: He jumps and experiences fear whenever he hears a toilet flushing   a conditioned stimulus  
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Stimulus discrimination   occurs when something is different enough from the conditioned stimulus that it doesn't lead to the conditioned response  
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Stimulus generalization   occurs when something similar to the conditioned stimulus leads to the conditioned response  
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Vicarious conditioning   learning by watching the behavior of another and the consequences of that behavior  
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stimuli that we learn to like.   secondary reinforcers  
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Classical conditioning   the pairing of a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that causes a reflexive response  
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Conventional Level   The concern with how others view us nt  
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the infant's behavior would be inconsistent or disturbed   Disorganized  
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responses are learnedecause of consequences   operant conditioning  
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always involves reflexive or responsive behavior   classical conditioning  
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