Exam 3 Flashcards

Dr. Hinitz

1
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Howard Gardener

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Created the theory of Multiple Intelligences

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2
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Insight

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Appears to be an operantly rewarded thinking process motivated by the final result

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3
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Control of one’s life is…

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Control of one’s body

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4
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The most important psychological quality

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The ability to control

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5
Q

Empathy is like

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Two tuning forks vibrating at the same frequency

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6
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When does attachment begin?

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In the womb

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7
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An environmental agent that can effect birth (illness, drugs, stress)

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Teratogen

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8
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What is the leading cause of intellectual disability

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FASD

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9
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A tendency to search for evidence that supports a way of thinking, while disregarding information that challenges it

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Confirmation Bias

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10
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Noam Chomsky

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Proposed a universal grammar that allows us to understand the structure language provides

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11
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Intelligence

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Knowing the context of where you are, what resources it takes to succeed, and having those resources

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12
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What are the 8 Intelligences?

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Musical, Bodily, Logical, Spatial, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Naturalist,Linguistic

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13
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Daniel Goleman

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Belived in the ninth intelligence; emotional intelligence

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14
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Thinking

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A brain activity in which people mentally manipulate information (words, visual images, sounds) from other data

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15
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Wolfgang Kohler

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Hung bananas from ceiling to study problem solving in chimps

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16
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Reactant’s Theory

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Jack Brahm; ppl are driven to establish, maintain, or regain freedom through action and thought

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17
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Your relationships and financial success reflect…?

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How seriously you keep your word

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18
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Karen Carpenter

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A famous pop singer who died of anorexia and bulimia

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19
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Running Rats Study

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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

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20
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Androgens

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Male sex hormones

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21
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Estrogens

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Female sex hormones

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22
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What is sex analogous to?

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communication

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23
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Kinsley Scale

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Thought sexual orientation was a 6 point scale that could be moved along

24
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Syntonic personality

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Someone who knows themself and their ideals

25
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Dystonic personality

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Someone who doesn’t know themself and their ideals are

26
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Movie line talking about women

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“I’ll have what she’s having”

27
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Carol Dwek

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Believed thinking that intelligence in biological and unchangeable leads to a “fixed mindset”

28
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Roger Banister

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First man to run a mile in less than 4 minutes, led to dozens of ppl breaking his record in the coming year

29
Q

Affect

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How you display your thoughts or feelings (advertisement)

30
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Feeling

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The physical parts of an emotion (heart racing)

31
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Emotion

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The cognitive filter and how it interprets context

32
Q

All emotion stems from…

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Love and Fear

33
Q

Are champions born or made?

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Born, and then made by nurture

34
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Nature

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I’m born like this

35
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Nurture

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I’m made like this

36
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Thomas Bouchard

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Dedicated to reuniting twins with each other. Some twins were similar, some were different

37
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What is the problem w the Human Genome Project

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The ethical question of who is allowed to survive

38
Q

What is our brain

A

A vibration interpreter

39
Q

The ground floor of psychology is…

A

Attachment

40
Q

Erik Erikson

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Psychosocial development; the development of individual’s interactions with each other

41
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Trust vs Mistrust

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Develops frmo age 0-1, determines if you can trust ppl in your life and to what degree

42
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Autonomy vs Shame

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Develops from age 1.5-3, determines if you can be independent and to what degree

43
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Initiative vs Guilt

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Develops from age 3-6, determines how likely you are to take initiative

44
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Industry vs Inferiority

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Age 6-12, how much you like to talk w others

45
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Self Determination Theory

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CAR, wanna feel confident and boss of ourselves

46
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What does CAR stand for?

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Competence, autonomy, and relatedness

47
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What does Dr. Hinitz rate higher than self esteem

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Self acceptance

48
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Social Factors related to weight

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Society, Cultural, Eating Behavior; Hypothalamus in control for weight

49
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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:

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Should be classified as mildly mentally disabled

50
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Which motivation theory is based on the outcome of people’s thoughts, beliefs, expectations, and goals

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Cognitive

51
Q

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:

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1 day

52
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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

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James-Lange

53
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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

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Cannon-Bard

54
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Which theory of emotion contends that the emotion we are experiencing by observing our environment and comparing ourselves to others

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Schacter-Singer

55
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From lecture what theory says that people are driven to establish, maintain, or establish their personal freedoms

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Reactance theory, Brehm

56
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From one theoretical perspective discussed in class, what two emotions can all emotions be derived from

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Love and Fear (2)

57
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What is something in the environment that can cause negative effects, or birth defects to an infant or unborn child called

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A teratogen