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Chapter 5,7,8,9 Flashcards

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Behavior potential

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Behavior changes that are temp. Due to things like drugs, alcohol, etc (not learned)

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Classical conditioning (Pavlov)

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Reflex response to a stimuli other than the original, natural response

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Operant conditioning (b.F. Skinner)

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Learning of voluntary behavior thru the effects pleasant and unpleasant consequences

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Primary reinforcer

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Stimulus that naturally strengthens any response that precedes it. (Food, water,sex)

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Secondary/conditioned reinforcer

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A previous neutral stimulus that acquires the ability to strengthen

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Punishment

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To decrease the frequency or prob. Of a response occurring again.

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Positive(punish)

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Presentation of an aversive stimulus to decrease the prob. Of an operant response reoccurring shaking

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Negative (punish)

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The removal of a pleasant stimulus to decrease the probability of an operant response occurring again

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Disadvantages of punishment

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  • severe punish-may cause child to avoid punisher
  • ‘may encourage lying
  • creates fear and anxiety
  • a successful model for aggression
  • encourages subversive behavior
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Cognitive Learning Theory

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  • latent learning : remains hidden
  • insight learning: a sudden perception of relations. Among various parts of the problem
  • learned helplessness; the tendency to fail to escape from a situation because of historical repeated failures
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Memory

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  • encoding
  • storage
  • retrieval
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Emotional intelligence

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Being able to control emotions due to past experience

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Intelligence test

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  • Stanford Binet and iq

- Weschler text :Wisc (child), Wppsi(prek), and WAIS (adult)

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Wisdom

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Application of intelligence toward a common good

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Nature v. Nurture

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Nature :the influence of our inherited characteristics

Nurture:the influ. Of the environ.

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Changes occur in people as they age from conception to death

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  • longitudual designs
  • cross sectional designs
  • cross sequential designs
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Cognitive development (thinking, problem solving, memory)

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4 stages

  • sensorimotor stage
  • pre operational stage (language)
  • concrete stage(kids thoughts process but not abstract)
  • formal operations stage (abstract)
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Motivation

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The process by which activities are started, directed, and continued so that physical or psychological needs are met

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Extrinsic motivation

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Person performs a action cause it leads to an outcome that is seperated from or external to person

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Intrinsic motivation.

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Person performs an action cause the act itself is rewarding or satisfying in Some internal manner.

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Characteristics of 3 kinds of needs

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-need of achieve (strong desire to succeed)
-need for affiliation (seeked 2 be liked by others )
Need for power (influences over others)

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Drive

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A psychological and physical arousal arising when there is a need that motivates the organism to act in order to fulfill the need and reduce the tension

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Drive reduction theory

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Approached to motivation that assumes behavior arises from psycho needs that cause internal drives to push the otganisn to satisfy the news and redux. Tension And arousal

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Primary drive

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Those drives that includes need for the body (hunger and thirst)

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Secondary drive

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Those drives that’s are learned through experience or conditioning such as the need for money or social app.

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Mallows hierarchy of needs

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Self actulization 
Esteem needs
Love and belongings 
Safety needs 
psychological need
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Psychodynamic person./appro. (Freud)

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Concept is the ID, ego, and. Super ego

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Behavioral perspe./appro. (John B. Watson and b.f. Skinner)

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Behaviors can be learned cr an approach called “conditioning “

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Homeostasis

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Tendency of the body to maintain a steady state

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Mcclellands theory

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  • need for affiliation (likes by others)
  • need for power (control over others)
  • need for achievement desire to succeed)
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Carol dweck self theory of motivation.

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The need for achieve,. Is clisely linked wit personality factors including person view of self can affects the individual perception of the success or failures of their actions

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Stimulus motive

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One that appears to be unlearned but causes an increase in stimulations (I.e. Curiosity, playing, exploring

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Arousal theory

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People have a optimal (best or ideal) level of tension. (Such as task
Performance)

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Learning

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Any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice.

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