PSYC112 Key reminders for exam Flashcards
Defence mechanisims for desires
Displacement
Reaction formation
Projection
Isolation
Displacement defence mechanisim
Redirecting impulses to a more socially acceptable channel
Reaction formation defence mechanisim
Original wish is supplanted with a wish of the opposite nature
Projection defence mechanisim
Projecting urges onto others
Isolation defence mechanisim
Awareness of memories but not emotions
Dissociating from emotions
Actor-observer effect =
Making internal attributions for others failures
But external attributions for our failures
ETC
Self serving bias =
People taking credit for their success but not failures
Piaget’s perceived stages of cognitive development;
Sensorimotor stage
Pre-operational stage
Concrete operations stage
Formal operations stage
Age of Piaget’s sensorimotor stage
0-2
Age of pre-operational stage
2-7
Piaget’s Concrete operations stage age?
7 to 12
Piaget’s formal operations stage age
12+
What’s inside sensorimotor
Object permanence
Schema formation
Representational thought
Whats inside pre-operational
Language
Counting
Logical + symbollic thinking
Object manipulation
Whats inside concrete operations
Logcial analysis
Not egocentric
Cause + effect understanding
What’s insdie formal operations
Abstract reasoning
Metacognition
Object permanence age progression…
0-3
3-5
5-8
8-12
12+
Progression of object permanence skills…
Looking at cool stuff
Look at last place but no search
Anticipate the future place but no search
A not B search
Search in last place seen
IC’s in…
1930’s =
Prior =
= Bad, missing stuff
= Spiritual
3 Kholberg stages
Pre-conventional
Conventional
Post-conventional
Pre-conventional
Focused on self
Avoiding punisment and authority
Conventional level
Focused on others
Maintaining relationships and social order
Post conventional
Focused on ethics and principles
Kholberg’s stages show how we progress from consdieirng …. to …
Go from considering self to considering the broader things
Scribbling stage
Not representational
Pre-schematic stage
Tadpoles
Early schematic stage
Seperation of trunk and head
Schema developed
Later schematic stage
Substance added
Neck
Realistic stage
Detail - expressions, clothes etc
Period of indecision stage
Keep going or no
2 physiological responses + duration
SAM - immediate
HPA - longer term
SAM
Activation of sympathetic neurons
Activate adrenal glands
Produce …. adrenaline things
HPA
Anterior pituatary gland
Adrenal glands
Production of cortisol
Coping strategies for stress
- Problem focused
- Emotion focused
- Avoidance
- Social support
Avoidance strategies
Active - gym
Cognitive - book
Denial
Humor
Drugs
Prolem focused strats
Problem solving
Restructing
Optimisim