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Psych Midterm 1 Flashcards

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What is Structuralism?

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A school of psychology that sought to describe the element of the conscious experience.

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What is Functionalism?

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A school of psychology that focused on the utility of consciousness.

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What are the 6 psychological perspectives?

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  1. Psychodynamic
  2. Behavioral
  3. Humanistic
  4. Cognitive
  5. Social Control
  6. Biological
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What are the 5 steps of the scientific process?

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  1. Theory
  2. Hypothesis
  3. Test
  4. Anazyle
  5. Build
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What is the independent variable?

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The variable in which the researcher manipulates in a study.

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What is the dependant variable?

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The variable in which the researchers don’t manipulate that “depends” on the independent variable.

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What is the experiment condition (group)?

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The condition in which the participant receives manipulation.

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What is the control condition (group)?

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The condition that serves as a comparison for the experimental condition

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What is hindsight bias?

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The “knew-it all along” phenomena where people think they could have predicted a past event.

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What are the 3 descriptive methods?

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  1. Case Studies
  2. Surveys
  3. Naturalist observations
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What are the newborn reflexes?

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  1. Eyeblink (permanent)
  2. Rooting (3 weeks)
  3. Sucking (4 months)
  4. Swimming (4-6 months)
  5. Moro (6 mo)
  6. Palmer grasp (3-4 months)
  7. Tonic neck (4 mo)
  8. Stepping (2 mo)
  9. Babinski (8-12 mo)
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What are Piaget’s stages of development?

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  1. Preoperational stage
  2. Concrete operational stage
  3. Formal operational stage
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What is the preoperational stage?

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Ages 2-7

  1. The world seen through symbols like words and mental images
  2. Child doesn’t understand conservation.
  3. Thinking displays irreversibility, animism and egocentrism.
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What is the concrete stage?

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Ages 7-12

  1. Easily performed basic mental operations involving tangible problems and solutions
  2. Have trouble with problems that involve abstract reasoning.
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What is the Formal operational stage?

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Ages 11-12

  1. Think logically about the abstract or concrete problems
  2. Form hypothesis and test.
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What are the parenting styles?

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  1. Authoritarian
  2. Authoritative
  3. Permissive
  4. Disengaged
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What is the Authoritarian parenting style?

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High demandingness

Low Responsiveness

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What is the Authoritative parenting style?

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High demandingness

High responsiveness

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What is the Permissive parenting style?

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Low demandingness

High responsiveness

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What is the Disengaged parenting style?

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Low demandingness

High responsiveness

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What are tetragens?

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Any environmental agent that can cause birth defects.

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What are some tetragens?

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Alcohol

Drugs

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What are the periods of prenatal development?

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  1. Zygote
  2. Emryo
  3. Fetus
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What is adolescents?

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Adolescence is usually between 13-18 where the individuals hit puberty and find themselves as a person.

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What are the perspectives of adolescence?

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  1. Biological
  2. Emotions
  3. Cognitive
  4. Interpersonal
  5. Social
  6. Educational
  7. Legal
  8. Chronological
  9. Cultural
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What are the 4 stages of Erikson’s theory?

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Forecloser
Identity diffusion
Moratorium
Identity achievement

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What is the forecloser stage?

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Individuals commit to an identity without experimenting with options

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What is identity diffusion?

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Adolescents neither explore nor commit to any roles or ideologies

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What is moratorium?

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Stage in which adolescents are actively exploring options but not yet committed to identity

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What is identity achievement?

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Individuals explored different options then have committed

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What is homophily

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Adolescents associate with peers who are similar

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What are crowds?

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Adolescent peer groups characterized by reputation or images (ex. Goth)

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What is psychological control?

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Parents manipulation or intrusions on how they think in particular ways

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What is deviant peer cognition?

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The spread of problem behaviour in a group

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What are the phychosexual development stages? (Freud)

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  1. Oral (Birth-1y)
  2. Anal (1-3y)
  3. Phallic (3-6y)
  4. Latency (6-Puberty)
  5. Genital (Puberty-death)
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What are Freud’s 3 personality theory?

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  1. Id: unconscious, deep down, majority of personality
  2. Ego: non conscious, realistic part of us
  3. Superego: pre conscious, perfection, contradicts Id
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What is the psychodynamic perspective of psych

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Personality deep down inside

Victims of who we are

38
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What is the humanistic perspective?

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We are a free agent

Being the best we can be

39
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What is the behavioural perspective?

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We react to our environment

Rewarded for good, punished for bad

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What is the cognitive perspective?

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Someone else will

41
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What is the social control perspective?

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We are the cog of our cultures

42
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What is the biological perspective?

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Dopamine or seratonin

43
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Okay hat is CBT?

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Cognitive behavioural therapy

44
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Who is the father of psychology?

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Wilhelm Wundt

45
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When did the first psychological lab open?

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1879

46
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When did the first psych lab open in America?

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1883

47
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Who was William James?

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Functionalism
Undying causes and practical consequences (How/why)
Function and purpose

48
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Who was E.B. Titcher?

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Structuralism
Analyzed sensations
Introspection
Based work on Wundt

49
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What are the attributes of a scientific attitude?

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  1. Curosity
  2. Skepticism
  3. Humility
50
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What is ecological validity?

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What an organism does vs what it can do

51
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What are the top criteria of adulthood?

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  1. Accepting responsibility for yourself
  2. Making independent decisions
  3. Financial independence
52
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What is the bottom criteria of adulthood?

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  1. Finishing education
  2. Marriage
  3. Parenthood
53
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What is the typological model of aging?

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Biological
Psychological
Social

54
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What are the process models of aging?

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  1. Stability model
  2. Irreversible development model
  3. Decrement with compensation model
55
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What is the stability model of aging?

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Assumes an absence of aging effects

- crystallization if intelligentsia and personality

56
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What is the irreversible decrement model of aging?

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  • assumes ongoing and irreversible aging effects
  • how we used to see aging (all down hill)
    -most biological models
    Caloric restriction
57
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What is the decrement with compensation model or aging?

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Assumes age deteriation but also possibility of remediation

Raise their skill to match demand

Lower expectations
Selective optimization

58
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What are some of the negatives of surveys?

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The wording
Sampling
- false consensus effect

59
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What is naturalist observation?

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The observation of something without interfering

60
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What is a correlational study?

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A study where the is a correlation between two variables, usually in a broader setting

61
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What’s the problem with correlational studies?

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Correlation doesn’t mean causation

62
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Why would we do correlational studies?

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To test variables that we cannot manipulate

To make predictions

63
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What is an experimental study?

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A study was used to determine the effect of two variables

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What is a single-blind procedure?

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A procedure in which the participant doesn’t know what group they are in

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What is a double-blind procedure?

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A procedure in which both the participant and the researcher don’t know what group each person is in

66
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What is heterogeneity?

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Inter-individual and subgroup differences in level and rate over time

67
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Life course theories?

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The theory of development that highlights the effects of social expectations of age related live events

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What is a chohort?

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A group of people, typically born in the same year or historical period

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What are life span theories?

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Theory of development that emphasizes the patterning of lifelong within persons differences in the shape/rate/level of change

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What is a longtitude study?

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A study that takes place over a long period of time

71
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What is a cross-sectional study?

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Studies that provide information on age group differences

72
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What is the psychometric approach?

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The approach to studying intelligence that examines performance on tests on intelligent functioning

73
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What is fluid intelligence?

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Type of intelligentsia that relies on the ability to use information processing resources to reason logically

74
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What is crystallized intelligence?

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Type of intelligence on application of knowledge, experience and learned info

75
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What is inhibitory functioning?

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Ability to focus on certain info while suppressing less important info

76
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What is subjective age?

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How someone feels

77
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What is age identity?

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How old someone feels compared to physical age

78
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What is the convoy model of social relations?

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Theory that proposes that the frequency types and reciprocity of social exchanges change with age (Antonucci)

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What is the Socioemotional selective theory?

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Theory proposed to explain the reduction of social partners in older adulthood; older adults focus on meeting people emotional rather than info-gathering

80
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What is global selective well being?

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An individuals perception of and satisfaction with their lives as a whole

81
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What is Hedonic well being?

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Component of well being that refers to emotional expenses

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