Exam 3 Flashcards
Dr. Hinitz
Howard Gardener
Created the theory of Multiple Intelligences
Insight
Appears to be an operantly rewarded thinking process motivated by the final result
Control of one’s life is…
Control of one’s body
The most important psychological quality
The ability to control
Empathy is like
Two tuning forks vibrating at the same frequency
When does attachment begin?
In the womb
An environmental agent that can effect birth (illness, drugs, stress)
Teratogen
What is the leading cause of intellectual disability
FASD
A tendency to search for evidence that supports a way of thinking, while disregarding information that challenges it
Confirmation Bias
Noam Chomsky
Proposed a universal grammar that allows us to understand the structure language provides
Intelligence
Knowing the context of where you are, what resources it takes to succeed, and having those resources
What are the 8 Intelligences?
Musical, Bodily, Logical, Spatial, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Naturalist,Linguistic
Daniel Goleman
Belived in the ninth intelligence; emotional intelligence
Thinking
A brain activity in which people mentally manipulate information (words, visual images, sounds) from other data
Wolfgang Kohler
Hung bananas from ceiling to study problem solving in chimps
Reactant’s Theory
Jack Brahm; ppl are driven to establish, maintain, or regain freedom through action and thought
Your relationships and financial success reflect…?
How seriously you keep your word
Karen Carpenter
A famous pop singer who died of anorexia and bulimia
Running Rats Study
Rat A got to make every choice in its life, and rat B was forced to follow. They ate the same, ran the same, slept the same, and rat B was far less healthy than rat A because it couldn’t make its own choices
Androgens
Male sex hormones
Estrogens
Female sex hormones
What is sex analogous to?
communication
Kinsley Scale
Thought sexual orientation was a 6 point scale that could be moved along
Syntonic personality
Someone who knows themself and their ideals
Dystonic personality
Someone who doesn’t know themself and their ideals are
Movie line talking about women
“I’ll have what she’s having”
Carol Dwek
Believed thinking that intelligence in biological and unchangeable leads to a “fixed mindset”
Roger Banister
First man to run a mile in less than 4 minutes, led to dozens of ppl breaking his record in the coming year
Affect
How you display your thoughts or feelings (advertisement)
Feeling
The physical parts of an emotion (heart racing)
Emotion
The cognitive filter and how it interprets context
All emotion stems from…
Love and Fear
Are champions born or made?
Born, and then made by nurture
Nature
I’m born like this
Nurture
I’m made like this
Thomas Bouchard
Dedicated to reuniting twins with each other. Some twins were similar, some were different
What is the problem w the Human Genome Project
The ethical question of who is allowed to survive
What is our brain
A vibration interpreter
The ground floor of psychology is…
Attachment
Erik Erikson
Psychosocial development; the development of individual’s interactions with each other
Trust vs Mistrust
Develops frmo age 0-1, determines if you can trust ppl in your life and to what degree
Autonomy vs Shame
Develops from age 1.5-3, determines if you can be independent and to what degree
Initiative vs Guilt
Develops from age 3-6, determines how likely you are to take initiative
Industry vs Inferiority
Age 6-12, how much you like to talk w others
Self Determination Theory
CAR, wanna feel confident and boss of ourselves
What does CAR stand for?
Competence, autonomy, and relatedness
What does Dr. Hinitz rate higher than self esteem
Self acceptance
Social Factors related to weight
Society, Cultural, Eating Behavior; Hypothalamus in control for weight
Martin scores 68 on an IQ test. He can groom and dress himself very appropriately, can read street signs, add two numbers, and has several neighborhood friends. Martin:
Should be classified as mildly mentally disabled
Which motivation theory is based on the outcome of people’s thoughts, beliefs, expectations, and goals
Cognitive
According to the Crash course video on Language that was shown in your discussion section, when children are around 18 months old, their capacity for learning words jumps from about 1 every week to every:
1 day
Which theory of emotion contends that we experience emotions as a result of physiological changes that produce specific sensations and the brain interprets these sensations as pacific kinds of emotional experiences
James-Lange
Which theory of emotion contends that both physiological arousal and the emotional experience are produced simultaneously by the same nerve stimulus which is suggested to emanate from the thalamus in the brain
Cannon-Bard
Which theory of emotion contends that the emotion we are experiencing by observing our environment and comparing ourselves to others
Schacter-Singer
From lecture what theory says that people are driven to establish, maintain, or establish their personal freedoms
Reactance theory, Brehm
From one theoretical perspective discussed in class, what two emotions can all emotions be derived from
Love and Fear (2)
What is something in the environment that can cause negative effects, or birth defects to an infant or unborn child called
A teratogen
