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Psych/Soc 2 Flashcards

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What is a self-concept?

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Our internal list to who am I question

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Define identity

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individual components of self concept (groups we identify with) ex: religous group, sex orientation, gender

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What factors are there in an ethnic identity?

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ancestry, culture, language

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What is nationality?

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political borders (flag, country, national symbols)

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What is the hierarchy of salience?

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it means the situation dictates which identity is most important

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The self-discrepancy theory states that we have three selfs, what are they?

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Actual self (how we view ourself) Ideal self Ought self (what others think of us)

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What is Freuds Psychosexual development stages?

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Oral Anal Phallic (Oedipal) Latency Genital

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In freuds Oral stage of development what can fixation lead to?

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excessive dependency

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In freuds anal stage what can fixation lead to?

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excessive orderliness OR messiness

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In freuds phallic stage (3-5) what are the conflicts?

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oedipal and electra

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In freuds psychosexual stages what is the latency stage?

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libido is depressed til puberty

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In Erikson’s psychosocial stages when does it occur and what is the trust vs mistrust stage?

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0 to 1 year

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In Erikson’s psychosocial stages when does it occur and what is the autonomy vs shame and doubt stage?

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1 to 3 years

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In Erikson’s psychosocial stages when does it occur and what is the initiative vs guilt stage?

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3 to 6 years

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In Erikson’s psychosocial stages when does it occur and what is the industry vs inferiority stage?

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6 to 12 years

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In Erikson’s psychosocial stages when does it occur and what is the identity vs role confusion stage?

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12 to 20 years

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In Erikson’s psychosocial stages when does it occur and what is the intimacy vs isolation?

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20 to 40 years

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In Erikson’s psychosocial stages when does it occur and what is the In Erikson’s psychosocial stages when does it occur and what is the generativity vs stagnation stage?

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40 to 65 years if gen. you become a contributer to society and if stag. you become more self-centered and bored

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In Erikson’s psychosocial stages when does it occur and what is the integrity vs despair stage?

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65 years + integrity we will see wisdom despair will see life as worthless and fear death

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What are the three phases of kohlberg’s moral reasoning?

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Preconventional morality Conventional morality postconventional morality

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In Kohlbergs moral reasoning, what are the two stages in the preconventional morality?

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obedience self-interest

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In Kohlbergs moral reasoning, what are the two stages in the conventional morality?

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conformity law and order

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In Kohlbergs moral reasoning, what are the two stages in the postconventional morality?

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social contract universal human ethics

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Vygotsky is known for the ?

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zone of proximal development

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Vygotsky and the zone of proximal development requires?

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The help of a more knowledgeable other to gain skills

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Who came up with the psychoanalytic perspective?

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sigmun freud

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What are the three parts of the psychoanalytic perspective?

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Id Ego Superego

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What is the ID?

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the innate drives, natural man inside us

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What is the ego?

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the socially acceptable, guides or inhibits the ID moderates the superego

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What is the superego?

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The perfectionist, right and wrong, morally acceptable

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Whats the difference in suppression and repression?

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suppressison is the conscious act of forgetting

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What is the difference between regression and repression?

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regression is the reversion back to an earlier development state

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33
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Displacement is what defense mechanism?

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transferring feelings from one object/thing to another

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sublimation is what?

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the changing an unacceptable feeling into a socially acceptable one

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35
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What is anima and animus?

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anima is a man’s inner woman animus is a womans inner man

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According to carl jung what is the persona?

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the mask we wear among people

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37
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According to carl jung what is the collective unconscious?

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common experiences or archetypes

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38
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What is the myers-Briggs type inventory? (MBTI)

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They took Carl Jung’s info and made the ENFP or ESFJ

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What is a self-schema?

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a classification or self-given label ex: athlete, student

40
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What is dishabituation?

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reverting back to having a recovered stimulus response

41
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What is associative learning?

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associating between a behavior and response

42
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What are two types of associative learning?

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clasical and operant (instinctive and voluntary respectively)

43
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Conditioned stimulus used to be ?

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neutral stimulus

44
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Unconditioned response becomes what?

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conditioned response

45
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What are the parts of classical conditioning?

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UCS UCR neutral stimulus -> Conditioned stimulus UCR -> Conditioned response

46
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In classical conditioning what is extinction?

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The Organism becomes habituated to CS

47
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In classical conditioning what is generalization?

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Any stimulus similar to original to CS will cause CR

48
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In classical conditioning what is discrimination?

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The ability to distinguish between two similar stimuli

49
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Operant (voluntary) conditioning is what?

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Voluntarily choice in actions

50
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Positive reinforcement is what?

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ADD something to reinforce behavior

51
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What is negative reinforcement?

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REMOVE something to reinforce behavior

52
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What is positive punishment?

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ADD something to stop behavior

53
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What is Negative punishment?

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Remove something to stop behavior

54
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How long do we hold onto sensory memory?

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Not long

55
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What is working memory?

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memory your using to solve something like what is 37x42 in your head.

56
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What are the three kinds of active encoding from strongest to weakest?

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Semantic (linking) Auditory Visual

57
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How much short term memory can you memorize?

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7 + or - 2

58
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What are the two types of long-term memory?

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Implicit (non declarative) and explicit (declarative)

59
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What is implicit memory?

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nondeclarative - skills and conditioned responses No active recall needed riding bike, driving car, eating

60
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What is explicit memory?

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Memories that require active conscious recall Ex: the arrhenius equation,

61
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What are the two types of motivation?

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intrinsic extrinsic

62
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Whats the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic?

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Intrinsic - for you extrinsic - ex: to pass MCAt

63
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What is instinct theory of motivation?

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innate behaviors of motivation, unconditioned (suckling)

64
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What is the Arousal Theory of Motivation?

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People perform actions in order to maintain an optimal level of arousal

65
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Whats the James-Lange Theory of emotion?

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Stim -> Physiological response -> emotional response i feel threatened BECAUSE my heart is elevated

66
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What is the Canon-Bard theory?

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Stim -> physiological arousal AND sense of emotion I see a snake AND my heart is racing. I must be afraid

67
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What is the Schacter-Singer theory?

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Emotion depends on both the physiological response and the cognitive appraisal of the environment I am sad BECAUSE my eyes are watering AND everyone else is sad at this funeral.

68
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What is fictional finalism?

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Individual is motivated more by expectations of the future than by past

69
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What is creative self?

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Force by which individual creates his personality

70
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What is the style of life?

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the manifestation of creative self

71
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Horney stated that bad parenting causes basic anxiety which cause what?

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vulnerability and helplessness

72
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Object relations theory states what?

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That objects–like our parents–influence our relationships with others based on experiences with the object

73
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What is the p value?

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The chance that your results were due to chance

74
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What size p value do you want to show casualty?

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small. if small reject Ho

75
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What is temporal ambiguity?

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The researcher can’t tell which is the ind. or the dep. variable independent variable has to occur BEFORE dependent variable

76
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What is selection bias?

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“handpicked”

77
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In errors what will you see (trend) with a systemic error? and what is a systemic error?

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If skewed it will be a systemic error which is like procedural, or equipment

78
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In research errors how could you fix a random error?

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Increase the size of the sample If you have a low sample it might be a random error

79
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What is the confidence interval?

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% certainty that your results are representative of population

80
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What is a type I error?

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False positive

81
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What is a type II error?

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False negative

82
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What is a secondary appraisal?

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your secondary evaluation or secondary emotions of

83
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What is the social cognitive perspective?

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Peoples behaviors and traits shape their environments which effects identity

84
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What is reaction formation?

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Turns unwanted feelings in the opposite

85
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Summarize the kohlbergs stages with one word

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Pre = selfish Conventional = societal Post = abstract

86
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What is the diff in primary versus secondary socialization?

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Prim is family Secondary is with friends

87
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What is confirmation bias?

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focus on information that already fits our beliefs

88
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What is affluent?

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having a great deal of money

89
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What is the difference between symbolic and material culture?

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Material is objects : art tools, clothes

Symbolic is ideas : motto’s, songs, phrases

90
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What is groupthink?

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91
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What is histrionic personality disorder?

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Attention seeking, dramatic, seductive behaviors

92
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What is schizoid personality disorder?

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Socially withdrawn, not wanting to interact

93
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What is top-down processing?

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we percieve by filling in the gaps,

Recognize the whole object, then the pieces

94
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What is bottom-up processing?

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taking sensory info and then organizing it.

Use small clues to find the big picture.

95
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