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Modules 1,2,4,5,6

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Wilhelm Wundt   The "father" of psychology. Psychology born in 1879.  
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Structuralism   First prominent system for organizing psychological beliefs.  
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Gestalt Psychology   Alternative systems. The whole is different from the sum of its parts.  
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William James   Studied the functions of consciousness.  
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Functionalism   The way consciousness helps people adapt to their environment.  
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Sigmund Freud   A stereotypic therapist.  
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Psychoanalytical Psychology   Focused on abnormal behavior and relied on personal observation.  
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Ivan Pavlov   Observable behaviors  
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Abraham Maslow   Emphasized conscious experience  
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Cognitive Perspective   Focus on how people think-how they take in, process, store, and tetrieve information.  
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Biological Perspective   Attempts to understand behavior by studying the biological structures and substances underlying a given behavior thought or emotion.  
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Social-Cultural Perspective   Focus on how thinking and behavior change depending on the setting or situation.  
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Behavioral Perspective   Believe we learn certain responses through rewards, punishments and observations.  
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Humanistic Perspective   Consider how healthy people strive to reach their full potential.  
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Psychodynamic Perspective   Consider how our helping behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts.  
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Researcher Bias   Observations may be influenced by what you discover. Bias occurs when any factor unfairly increases the likelihood that the researcher will come to a perticular conclusion.  
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Critical Thinking   Thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden balues, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.  
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Participant Bias   A tendency for research participants to respond in a certain way because they know they are being observed or they believe they know what the researcher wants.  
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Naturalistic Observation   A technique in which the observer makes no attempt to manipulate or control the situation.  
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Correlational Study   A research project designed to discover the degree to shich two variables are related to each other.  
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Positively Correlated   Both variables increase together  
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Negatively Correlated   One variable increases while other decreases  
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Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Studies   A research technique that studies the same group of individuals over a long period of time.  
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Cross Sectional Studies   A research technique that compares individuals from different age groups at one time.  
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Operational Definitions   A specification of the exact procedures used to make a variable specific and measurable for reaserch purposes  
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Independant Variable   The research variable that a researcher actively manipulates, and if the hypothesis is correct, will cause a change in the dependent variable.  
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Dependent Variable   The behavioral or mental process where the impact of the independent variavle is measured.  
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Experimental Group   The participants in an experiment who are exposed to the treatment, that is, the independent variable.  
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Control Group   The participants in an experiment who are not exposed to the independent variable.  
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Random Assignment   Assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance minimizing pre-existing differences among different groups  
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Confounding Variables   In an experiment, a variable, that could influence the dependent variable.  
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Double-Blind Procedure   An experimental procedure in which both the research in which both the research participants are ignorant to the expected outcome.  
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Placebo   A nonactive substance or condition.  
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Data Analysis   Run the experiment and collect the data. Then analyze the numbers, using statistics, to find out if the hypothesis is supported.  
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Replication   Repeating a research study to see if the results are reliable.  
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Prenatal   Before birth. Starts at conception and ends at birth.  
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Zygote   Fertilized egg; it enters a two-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo.  
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Genes   The biochemical units of heredity that direct how our cells become specialized for various functions during prenatal development.  
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Embryo   The developing human organism from about two weeks after fertilization through the end of the eighth week.  
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Fetus   The developing human organism from nine weeks after conception to birth.  
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Teratogens   Substances that cross the placental barrier and prevent the fetus from developing normally.  
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome   When the mother drinks alcohol during the pregnancy, the child is born with FAS. -symptoms: noticable facial misproportions.  
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Rooting Reflex   A baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to open the mouth and search for the nipple" this is an automatic, unlearned response.  
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Temperament   A person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity.  
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Maturation   Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.  
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Jean Piaget   Pioneer in the study of developmental psychology who introduced a stage theory of cognitive development that led to a better understanding of children's thought processes.  
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Cognition   All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering.  
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Schemas   Concepts or mental frameworks that organize and interpret information.  
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Assimilation   Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas.  
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Accommodation   Adapting one's current understandings to incorporate new information.  
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Sensorimotor Stage   The stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities.  
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Object Permanence   The awareness that things continue to exist even when tou cannot see or hear them.  
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Preoperational Stage   The stage when a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic.  
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Conservation   The principal that properites such as mass, volume, and a number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.  
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Egocentrism   The inability to take another's point of view  
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Concrete Operational Stage   The stage of cognitive development during which children gain the mental skills that let them think logically about concrete events.  
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Formal Operational Stage   Stage of cognitive development during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts and form strategies.  
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Stranger Anxiety   The fear of strangers that infants comonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age.  
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Attachment   An emotional tie with another person; young children demonstrate attachment by seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on seperation.  
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Imprinting   The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life.  
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Authoritarian Parenting   A style of parenting marked by making demands on the child, being responsive setting and enforcing rules, and discussing the reasons behind the rules.  
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Permissive Parenting   High in warmth, rarely discipline their children. Low communication from parent to child, high child to parent. Expectations of maturaty is low.  
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Authoritative Parenting   High in warmth, moderate discipline, lots of talking and negotiating, set rules, enforcing them. Communication is high, moderate maurity expectations.  
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Continuity and Stages   Attachment and development. Cognitive development-continueous Motor development-stages  
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Stability and Change   Temperament-can change for infants.  
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Nature and Nurture   Heredity and environment shapes a child's development.  
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Adolescence   The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence.  
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Puberty   The period of sexual maturation during which a person becomes capable of reproducing.  
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Primary Sex Characteristics   The body structures that make sexual reproduction possible.  
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Secondary Sex Characteristics   Non-reproductive sexual characteristics.  
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Sexual orientation   An enduring sexual attraction toward members of either the other gender or one's own gender.  
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Reasoning   A sequence of increasingly sophisticated cognitive abilities.  
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Formal Operational Stage   When we may develop adult thinking and reasoning.  
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Morality   One's sense of right and wrong.  
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Lawrence Kohlberg   Psychologist, authored a theory of moral resoning to demonstrate how our way of thinking about moral situations changes with our level of development.  
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Preconventional Moral Reasoning   Most primitive level; avoid punishment or gain reward. Most under 9.  
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Conventional Moral Reasoning   Concern to fit in and play one's role as a good citizen. Strong desire to follow rules and laws.  
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Post conventional Moral Reasoning   References to universal ethical principles that represent the rights or obligations of all people.  
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Erik Erikson   Created an eight-stage theory of social development.  
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Stages of Psychosocial Development   -Experimentation -Rebellion -'self'-ishness -optimism and energy  
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Continuity and Stages   -Development relies on both -Attention to gradual growth within stages  
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Stability and Change   -Adolescence affected by both -Temperament-constant -Relationships/behaviors-change  
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Nature and Nurture   -Nature:spark feelings and interests -Nurture: learn to express  
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Social Clock   The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement.  
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Emerging Adulthood   When adolescents go into true adulthood  
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Menopause   The time of natural cessation of menstruation  
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Alzheimer's Disease   A progressive and irreversible brain disorger characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language and physical functioning.  
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Senile Dementia   The mental disintegration that acompanies alcoholism, tumor, stroke, aging, and most often, Alzheimer's Disease.  
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Memory   Younger people remember things better  
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Recall   Tasks that give us no clues to jog our memories  
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Recognition   See something and remember what is is  
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Fluid Intelligence   One's ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood.  
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Crystallized Intelligence   One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.  
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Life Events   Family and work-related events-bring major lifestyle alterations.  
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Erik Erikson   Author of the psychosocial developmental stage theory.  
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Generatively   Being productive and supporting future generations.  
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Sigmund Freud   Founder of psychoanalysis and the psyhosexual stages of development.  
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Love   -Intimate self-disclosure -Shared emotional and material support -Similar interests and values  
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Emptying of the Nest   When children move out of the house  
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Dying and Death   People die different ways  
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Hospice   Recieve comforting medical attention, but avoid death-defying interventions.  
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