Cards

Question 1

passing

Answer 1

refers to attempts to disguise one’s stigmatized identity. This would involve using interactional strategies that match those of parents, such as talking about desired parenthood.

Question 2

internal validity

Answer 2

refers to the extent to which a causal conclusion based upon an experiment is warranted; a study that lacks systematic error (measuring error) is said to have internal validity

Question 3

external validity

Answer 3

extent to which the results of an experiment can be generalized to other situations and to other people

Question 4

Test-retest reliability

Answer 4

obtained by administering the same test twice over a period of time to a group of individuals. The scores from Time 1 and Time 2 can then be correlated in order to evaluate the test for stability over time.

Question 5

Replicability

Answer 5

ability to obtain the same results under the same experimental conditions

Question 6

parietal lobe

Answer 6

sensory info: taste, temp, touch

Question 7

Yerkes-Dodson law

Answer 7

refers to how stress and arousal affect performance; a moderate level of stress helps people perform at their best

Question 8

Social reproduction

Answer 8

processes through which social, cultural, and financial capital are transmitted generationally

Question 9

Construct validity

Answer 9

concerns how well a test measures what it is expected to measure, which is not demonstrated by retesting the same children a year later

Question 10

Inter-rater reliability

Answer 10

the degree of agreement among raters. It gives a score of how much homogeneity, or consensus, there is in the ratings given by judges

Question 11

Split-half reliability

Answer 11

assumes that, if a test is reliable, a student should score equally as well or poorly on two randomly selected halves of the test.

Question 12

social constructionism

Answer 12

how the “society” has “constructed” the knowledge in your brain

Question 13

Baddeley’s model

Answer 13

phonological loop is the system that is responsible for allowing us to repeat auditory information back to ourselves long enough in working memory to either write the information down or to somehow encode it into long-term memory

episodic buffer integrates information across domains

visuospatial sketchpad is the site for processing visual and spatial information in working memory

Question 14

structural discrimination

Answer 14

like institutional discrim, but unintentional

Question 15

Wernicke

Broca

Answer 15

procsesing language

production language

Question 16

anhedonia

Answer 16

cant feel pleasure

Question 17

serotonin

Answer 17

depression can be affected

Question 18

norepeinephrine/noradrenaline

Answer 18

arousal

mood and learning

Question 19

Acth

Answer 19

neurons in PNS/CNS to control heart rate, muscle etc

Question 20

Gestalt

Answer 20

laws:

similarity: brain groups similar things together
pragnanz: relaity is borken into simplest forms
proximity: objects that are close are grouped together
continuity: lines follow smoothest line
closure: objects seen together seen as whole regardless of gaps

Question 21

parallel processing

Answer 21

brain’s ability to simultaneously process incoming stimuli of differing quality (ex color, motion, dpeth etc)

Question 22

top down processing

bottom up processing

Answer 22

td: you use your experiences/expectations to influence something
bu: you start just with the stimulus

Question 23

shaping

Answer 23

operant conditioning technique that involves producing a desired behavior by reinforcing successive approximations of that behavior

Question 24

Paiget

Answer 24

sensorimotor
preoperational
concrete operational (conservation)
formal operational

Question 25

Kohlberg

Answer 25

I: self benefit, do things right to avoid punishment only (stage 1 2)
II: be good girl (conformity), rules are for social order
III: moral and legal is different (stage 5 6)

Question 26

EEG readings

Answer 26

stage 1 and 2: low amp, high freq (theta waves)
stage 2: has some K complex (high amp, low freq) but not predominant
stage 3: delta (low freq high amp)
REM: low intensity variable freq (wakefulness(

Question 27

splitting

Answer 27

a term used to describe “all or nothing” thinking, in which a person vacillates between thinking of the positive and negative aspects of situations or people, but cannot bring them into a nuanced whole. Psychiatrists consider this a defense mechanism, and it is a trait associated with borderline personality disorder (choice A is wrong). A defense mechanism is an unconscious coping strategy that a person uses to deal with a stressful situation

Question 28

Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development

Answer 28

gap between what a student has already mastered and what he or she could master if provided with educational support

Question 29

ERikson

Answer 29

stages to develop thru
trust mistrust
autonomy shame doubt
intimacy
guilt
identity role confuisn
industry
inferiority

Question 30

prejudice vs stereotype

Answer 30

stereotype is beliefs about people
prejudice is an attitude based on stereotypes that includes emotions and value judgments as well. Prejudices are typically negatively valenced against a group of individuals,