Pshychology 12-14 Flashcards

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Any environmental agent that harms a developing fetus. Ex drugs, alcohol, tobacco.

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Teratogens

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2
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Very strict and controlling, lots of rules and physical punishment.

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Authority Style

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3
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Very few rules, little punishment, “Doormats.”

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Permissive or Indulgent style

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4
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Parents set/ Enforce rules…rules are negotiable or flexible.

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Authoritative or Responsible style

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5
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P’s are uninvolved… don’t know what the child is doing, friends, school issues.

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Uninvolved

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6
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Emphasis on social interactions. We have with people in our lives.

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Psychosocial Development

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7
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Jean Piaget

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4 stages of cognitive development.
-Sensorimotor
-Proportional
-Concrete operations
-Formal Operations.

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8
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Ability for abstract thinking is first seen.

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Formal Operations

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9
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Reasons why males are 5x more likely to die

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-Family Problems
-Peer Pressure
-Esteem issues

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10
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Golden years age 65+ and sensory systems will decline

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Adulthood

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11
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Best predictor of cognitive decline is overall physical health

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Cognitive Abilities

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12
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5 stages of grieving

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Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

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13
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Id

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-Innate-present at birth
-Operates by the pleasure principle.

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14
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Ego

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-Operates by the reality principle
-works as a mediator between the Id and reality and the superego

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15
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Superego

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-Moral branch of personality.
-Conscience>guilt
-Ego ideal>pride

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16
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Trait approach to studying personality

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-Does not explain personality development
-describe an measures personality traits

17
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Self-reported measures

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you describe yourself ex> MMPI and Myers-Briggs

18
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Projective test

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Ink blot test and the TAT

19
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Primary Appraisal

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Ask ourselves, “is this threatening to me”

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Secondary Appraisal

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Ask “do I have the resources to cope.”

22
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Hans Selye

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General Adaptation

22
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Cataclysmic events

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impact many people
-9/11
-Natural disasters

22
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3 phases of a stress reaction
-Alarm and Mobilization
-Resistance
-Exhaustion

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Personal Stressors
Death, Losing a job, and Divorce
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A state of mind where a person concludes that bad things can't be avoided even if you try so why try?
Learned Helplessness
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Take action, try to resolve the cause of stress
Problem focused coping
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Try to change how we feel or how we perceive the problem
Emotion-focused coping
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Higher rates of stress related illness
Type A persoanlity
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Lower rates of stress related illness
Type B personality and Hardy