FL 7 Flashcards

1
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Stages of Learning to Speak

A

Cooing => Babbling => One-Word => Telegraphic

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2
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What are the three most commonly abused psychoactive drug?

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Caffeine, alcohol and nicotine.

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3
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Define: Mindguards

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Members of groups that protects leaders from problematic or contradictory views from a group.

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4
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Define: Collective Rationalization

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Tendency of group to ignore warnings and failing to double check their assumptions.

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5
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Define: Gambler’s Fallacy

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An erroneous belief that future probabilities are affected by past events.

Ex. I didn’t win the last two scratch cards so I must win on the next one!

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6
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Define: Functional Fixedness

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Individuals cannot imagine using an object for any other way or purpose.

Ex. Using a fan as a leaf blower.

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7
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Define: Overconfidence

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Tendency to overestimate ones own ability to make accurate decisions.

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8
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Basal Ganglia

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Initiating and controlling voluntary movements.

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9
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Define: Social Conflict Theory

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Society acts as an area of inequality and conflict, usually causing competition between classes.

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Define: Structural Functionalism

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Society acts as an complex system that works together to promote stability.

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11
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Define: Symbolic Interactionism

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Product of day to day interactions.

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12
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Define: Social Exchange Theory

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Reward - Cost = Outcome

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13
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Define: Master Status

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Status with Special Importance

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14
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Define: Achieved Status

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Status that is earned.

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15
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Define: Ascribed Status

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Status you were born with or born into.

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16
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Define: Discrimination

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Prejudice in action.

17
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Define: Cultural Relativisim

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Trying to understand culture in ones own terms.

18
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Define: Prejudice

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Rigid/unfair generalization of an entire category of people.

Note: Attitude NOT action!

19
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Define: Stigma

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Discredited in the eyes of others.

  • Negative Connotation
20
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Define: Tact

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Used to help people cope with embarrassing circumstances.

21
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Define: Primacy Effect

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Most initially presented information is most easily recalled.

22
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Define: Just Noticeable Difference

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Weber’s Law => Ratio

23
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Define: Recency Effect

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Most recent presented information is most easily recalled.

24
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Define: Belief Perseverance

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Tendency to maintain belief even in the face of contradicting evidence.

25
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Define: Trial and Error

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Guess and check without organization or step of step method.

26
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Define: Heuristic Approach

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Rule of Thumb

27
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Define: Algorithmic Approach

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Step by step exploration of all potential options in an organized and systemic way.

28
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Define: Rumination

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Continuously thinking or replaying in mind aspects of situation that is upsetting.

Ex. Listening to sad songs after a breakup.

29
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Define: Coping

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Active attempts to resolve source of stressors or problem.

Ex. Working with ex to make mends on relationship after a breakup.

30
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Define: Reappraisal

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Emotion regulation, reinterpreting situations in a less negative manner.

31
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What are the seven universal emotions?

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Happy, sad, angry, fear, contempt, surprised, disgust.

32
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_____ acts on the collecting duct to increase water intake through the insertion of ________.

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ADH, aquaporins.

ADH acts on the collecting duct to increase water intake through the insertion of aquaporins.

33
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What must be isolated to confirm the shortening of telomeres?

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DNA

Telomeres - Nucleotide sequences at the end of DNA that protects chromosomes.

34
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Define: Inversion

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Chromosome Rearrangement

35
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Define: Aneuploidy

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Abnormal number of chromosomes.

36
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What secrets antibodies?

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B cells & Plasma => Adaptive Immune Cells

*Antibodies are specific to antigens.

37
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What produces cytokines/cytotoxins? Which cells do they act on?

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T cells produce cytokines/cytotoxins and they act on all cells.

38
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Macrophages and mast cells are what kind of immune cells?

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Innate immune cells that act in a non-specific way.