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Encoding

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process by which information gets into memory storage

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Selective

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Attending to certain stimuli while ignoring other stimuli

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Divided

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Attending to several stimuli at the same time

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Sustained

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Ability to maintain attention to a stimulus for a prolonged period of time

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Storage

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How information is retained and represented over time in memory

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3 Memory Storage Systems

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Sensory Memory, Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory

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What was the Atkinson Shiffrin Model of Memory Storage

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The three stages of memory

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Explicit Memory (Declarative Memory)

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Types of memory elicited through the conscious retrieval of recollection in response to direct questions

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Implicit Memory (Non-Declarative Memory)

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non-conscious recollection of prior experience that is revealed indirectly by its effects on performance

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Sensory Memory

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Visual sensory memory:iconic memory

Auditory Sensory memory:echoic memory

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Iconic Memory

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a fleeting sensory memory for visual images that lasts only a fraction of a second

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Short Term Memory

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Limited capacity, duration of 20-30 secs due to limited space and interference

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Long Term Memory

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Duration can last potential decades, and large capacity

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Memory

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The retention of information over time

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Episodic Memory

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retention of persona information about life’s events, autobiographical

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Semantic Memory

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General Knowledge about facts

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Two parts of Explicit Memory

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Episodic and Semantic Memory

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Two parts of Implicit Memory

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Procedural memory and Priming

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Procedural Memory

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Memory for skills

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Priming

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Activation of information that people already have in storage that is below conscious awareness

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Retrieval

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Process by which information that was retained in memory is taken out of storage

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Development

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Pattern of change that begins at conception and continues through the life cycle

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The course of prenatal development

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The Germinal Period, The embryonic period, fetal period

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Germinal Period

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Creation of zygote, continued cell division and attachment of zygote to uterine wall

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How long is the Germinal Period

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Conception - day 14

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Embryonic Period

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major organs develop, most rapid changes occur in this stage

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How long is the Embryonic Period

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From 2-8 weeks

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Fetal Period

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Growth and finishing phase, rapid increase in size

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How long is the Fetal Period

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Months 2-9

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Teratogens

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broad range of substances and conditions that may result in defects of the fetus

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Infant Reflexes

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Sucking, rooting, grasping, stepping, startle reflex

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Piagets Theory of Cognitive Development

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Children actively construct their knowledge of the world through their direct interactions with physical world

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Piaget’s stages of cognitive development

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Sensorimotor (0-2), Preoperational (2-7), Concrete Operational (7-11), Formal Operational (11-14)

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Sensorimotor Stage

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(0-2), Thought- coordination of sensations with motor action.
Key development is object permanence

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Object permance

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understanding that objects continue to exist even when out of sight

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Preoperational Stage

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2-7 years, Mental representation and symbolic thinking, Egocentrism, thought limiations

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Egocentrism

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Cannot differentiate own perspective from that of others

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Concrete Operational Stage

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7-11 years, Classification and conservation

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Formal Operational Stage

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11-15 years, last through adulthood, abstract and idealistic thought, hypothetical deductive reasoning

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Infant Attachment

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close emotional bond between caregiver and infant, during first year of life, important foundation for subsequent development

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Securely Attached Infants

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(70%), use their mothers as a secure base by which they explore. when mothers leave they become upset

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Insecure- Avoidant Infants

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(15%), remain independent throughout the strange situation. do not become upset when mother leaves

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Insecure-Resistant Infants

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(15%), little exploration, clingy and preoccupied with mother. upset when mother leaves and not soothed when she returns

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Eriksons Psychosocial Development

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Proposed 8 stages of Psychosocial development, with a positive resolution of each stage

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What are the 8 stages of Eriksons Psychosocial Development

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Childhood, 
trust vs mistrust,
 autonomy vs shame,
 Intitative vs guilt, 
industry vs inferiority, 
adolescence, 
identity vs indentity confusion
adulthood
intimacy vs isolation
generativity vs stagnation
intergrity vs despair
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Trusting Infants

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(positive resolution)Trust develops when basic needs are consistently met

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Mistrusting infants

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(negative resolution) Mistrust develops when basic needs are not consistently met

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What are the 6 basic emotions

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Fear
Anger
Disgust
Surprise
Happiness/Joy
Sadness/distress
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Affect

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feeling/emotion

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Body

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Physiological reaction

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Cognition

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Appraisal

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5 theories of Emotion

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James Lange Theory
Cannon Bard Theory
Schacter Singer Theory
Lazarus Theory
Facial Feedback Hypothesis
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James Lange Theory

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Physiological arousal occurs before emotion

B=A

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Singer-Schacter Two Factor Theory

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Bodily changes and a cognitive label are needed to completely experience an emotion
B&C=A

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Lazarus Theory

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cognitive occurs first and then leads to the emotional response
A=C=B

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Facial Feedback Hypothesis

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Movements of the facial muscles produce or intensify emotional reactions

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Cannon Bard Theory

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Stimulus causes the arousal and the emotion stimultanously

A=stimulus=B

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Autonomy

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(positive resolution) develops when toddlers gains control over own body

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Shame and doubt

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(negative resolution) develops when toddler can not control body

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Industry

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(positive resolution) develops by mastering knowledge and intellectual skills, build, etc in a school setting

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Inferiority

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(negative resolution) develops when child feels that they can not do what other children are doing

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Identity formation

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(positive resolution) develops by figuring out who you are and where you are going in life

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Identity Confusion

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(negative resolution) develops when we don’t select an identity

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