Exam 4 Flashcards
Differences between Emotions and moods.
Emotions are specific, shorter.
Moods are generally longer lasting, come from a different source or a less specific source.
Who has identified six basic universal emotions?
Paul Ekman. These rules are bio based Fear Disgust Anger Surprise Happiness Sadness
What are display rules?
Are rules given by cultures on how to show emotions.
Can display rules be different in others cultures?
Yes because they are affected by different cultures.
What is important about Language development. And social development?
That language development and social development that if you miss it at a young age or miss the window of overt unity then you won’t be able to learn them.
What is developmental psychology?
Is the sub field of psychology that studies the course and causes of physical, social, emotional, moral, and intellectual development over a persons life span.
What does the term development mean in this context?
It refers to age related changes that are systematic, sequential, and long lasting.
What does developmental psychology often study?
When curtain types of behavior first appear, how these behaviors change with age, and whether these changes occur suddenly, or gradually.
What is Maturation? And who found it.
Gesel found that motor skills develop in a fixed sequence of stages as a child. These things are dictated by nature not by nurture.
Jean Piaget said what?
Nature and nurture are inseparable and interact with each other.
What did Piaget Argue?
He argued that children are active learners. That children are little scientists.
What are schemes?
Are mental images that are the basic units of knowledge. Generally formed through experiences. Function to organize past experiences and provided framework for understanding future experiences.
What is Accommodation?
Current schemes are changed to fit new stimuli.
What is Emotion?
Are changed in Psychological states that tend to result from a specific source an motivate a specific action.
What is Meaning making?
Paget - “children Active attempts to understand the world.”
What Paget Theory has 4 stages?
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development
What was the first stage of Cognitive Development?
Sensory motor Period. Children at this age are focused on exploring he world using their senses and their ability to move. Toward the end of the stage, they develop object permanence and the understanding that concepts and mental images represents objects, people, and events.
What is the 2nd stage of cognitive development?
Pre-operational period. Children at this age can mentally represent and refer to objects and events with symbols. They fail to recognize “The principle of conservation”
What is object Permanence?
The knowledge that objects exist even when they can’t be sensed.
What transitions into the Pre operational period?
Mental representations
What is the concept of reverse ability?
Things can be reversed back to there original state.
What is the concept of Complementarity?
Understanding Demensions
