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What is Information Processing Theory?

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Cognitive Development changes over time, humans process information, continuous patterns of development (no stages).

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The cognitive process includes…?

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Attention, Working memory, long term memory

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How is information processed?

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Input - Attention - Sensory register - Working memory - Long term memory

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The process between short term memory and long term memory

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Retrieval and encoding

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What is attention?

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The allocation of limited processing resources.

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Where does control of attention occur?

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Parietal lobes (but central cognition occurs in the prefrontal cortex)

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What is working memory used for?

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Attention, complex thinking, organizing, problem-solving, remembering tasks.

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Types of Memory?

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Explicit (recall, voluntary, conscious) and Implicit (Involuntary, unconscious)

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Examples of types of Long-term memory.

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Episodic (memories), Semantic (general knowledge), Procedural (riding a bike, reflexes).

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What is habituation?

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Diminishing of a response to a frequently repeated stimulus.

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How to assess infant attention?

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Preferential looking

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First sense developed by infants.

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Auditory

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13
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What helps memory performances in children?

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Language (as it develops so does memory)

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Gardeners’ theory of Multiple Intelligence?

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8 sections (Logical-maths, Linguistic, Spatial, Musical, Body-kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Naturalistic)

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What environmental factors influence intelligence?

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Family, School, Poverty, Access to enrichment.

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16
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5 traits of trait theory.

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OPensess, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.

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Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development.

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  1. Trust v Mistrust 2. Autonomy v Shame & Doubt 3. Initiative v Guilt 4. Industry v Inferiority 5. Identity v Role confusion 6. Intimacy v Isolation
18
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When do infants develop an implicit sense of self?

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18 months

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What are the broad categories of temperament?

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Easy, Difficult, Slow-to-warm-up

20
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Temperament is…?

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Stable. Moderately predicts later adjustment

21
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What percent of children are easy?

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40%, Difficult = 10% and S-t-w-u = 15% (35% unknown)

22
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What is goodness-of-fit?

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Match between child-rearing environment and a child’s temperament.

23
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What did Thomas & Chess say about temperament?

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Easy, Difficult, S-t-w-u theory

24
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5 areas of self-esteem.

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Scholastic, Social, Behavioural, Athletic, Physical

25
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Whose is the gender schema theory?

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Bern (1981)

26
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What age is Identity v Confusion?

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Adolescence

27
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Marcia’s 4 states towards mature identity.

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Identity Diffusion, Moratorium, Identity foreclosure, Identity achievement.

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What is the Moratorium stage?

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When adolescence raises questions and finds answers.

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What did Arnett (2000, 2007) suggest about development?

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A new stage of Emerging Adulthood

30
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What is social cognition?

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A cognitive process that involves others

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Two common pathways of Antisocial behavior.

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Life-course-persistent (begins early) and Adolescent-limited (begin in puberty, ends in young adulthood)

32
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Whose theory is social information processing?

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Crick & Dodge (1994)

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6 steps of Social information processing.

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  1. Encoding 2. Interpretation 3. Clarification of goals 4. Response access and construction 5. Response direction 6. Behavior enactment
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What are emotions?

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Physiological states, cognitions, behaviours, subject experiences.

35
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Emotion expression depends on..?

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Culture and Personality

36
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Primary and Secondary Emotions.

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Present at birth (joy, surprise, distress) Require self-awareness (embarrassed, shame, pride)

37
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What part of the brain is responsible for emotions?

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Amygdala

38
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Who proposed attachment theory?

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John Bowlby

39
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Mary Ainsworth found 3 patterns of response to the strange situation, they were…?

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Securely attached (65%), Anxious/Ambivilant (10%), Aviodant (20%)