Psychology Flashcards

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Reticular formation role

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control of arousal

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basic survival actions... - sleep - regulation of body temperature - expression of emotions - the 4 F's feeding, fighting, fleeting and fortification

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receives information from the eyes, ears, skin and other sensory organs

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Frontal lobe parietal lobe occipital lobe temporal lobe

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``` language planning judgement problem solving aspects of personality regulation of emotions ```

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vision | information from the left side of each retina is processed in the left occipital lobe and vice versa

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adaptive plasticity is where the brain changes and develops as a result of new experiences

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a Childs brain having more plasticity then an adults brain

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the process where unborn baby cells that will become neurons, divide and multiply

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``` profliferation migration circuit formation synaptic pruning myelination ```

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occurs when the axons of new neurons grow out to target cells and form synapses with them

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the process of forming a new synapses

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elimination of excess neurons and synapses

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a process when the axons of the neurons in the Childs brain become insulated by myelin

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the process of forming a new synapses

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cerebellum amygdala corpus callosum frontal lobe

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- No physical or psychological harm to participants | - Animals must be protected, pain must be minimised and the animals must be well cared for

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- stroke - concussion - hits to the head - poisoning - physical trauma

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- children brains can rewire themselves - the half of the brain that wasn't removes was able to take over and control the functions of the half of the brain that has been removed

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Broca provided the first clinical evidence that clearly connected a specific behaviour to a specific brain area speech - brooks area

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provided evidence that a person who has difficulty understanding written and spoken language has had damage to the wernicke's area

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a disorder when a person ignored stimuli on one side of their body. this usually occurs after brain damage. example, only putting on makeup on one side your your face

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the same group of participants are exposed to both the E-gorup and the C-group

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placing equivalent pairs of participants in the E-gorup and the C-group

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the participants are only exposed top either the E-gorup and the C-group

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the group in which we wish to draw our conclusions form

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a selection of individuals from the population to be participants in the research and to represent the population.

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if you have a population of all the VCE students, you can't use all the students because there are too many so you pick a smaller amount called the sample and use them for your experiment

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``` situational societal and cultural historical statistical functional medical ```

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within a society or culture, thoughts, feelings and behaviour that may be considered normal in one situation may be considered abnormal in another

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The way we interact with others, the way we dress, what we eat and the way we talk can all be based on societal rules and expectations.

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what is considered normal and abnormal in a particular society or culture depends on the era, or period of time, when the judgment is made

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based on the idea that any behaviour or characteristic in a large group of individuals is distributed in a particular way; that is a normal distribution

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Thoughts, feelings and behaviours that are viewed as normal if the individual as able to cope with living independently in society, but considered abnormal if the individual is unable to function effectively in society

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abnormal thoughts, feelings and behaviours are viewed as having a underlying biological cause and can usually be diagnosed or treated

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mental health problems are a result of life stressors and are shorter and less severe then a mental disorder eg. exams or a fight with a friend mental disorder is a psychological disfunction that involves the usability to cope with everyday life and stress, thoughts, feelings and behaviours

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behaviours and skills we develop as we age everyday living skills eg. showering, walking, going to the bathroom

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developed in early childhood as a means of reducing anxiety, which interferes with a persons ability to function on a daily basis eg. self harm, screaming, tantrums

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a persons locus of control can determine how they view that world internal locus - take responsibility for their learning and the way they act external locus - believe that their behaviour is governed by outside influenced such as luck

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eustress - refers to a positive psychological response to a perceived stressor distress - refers to a negative psychological response to a perceived stressor

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neurosis - non-psychotic illnesses such as anxiety, depression and personality disorders psychosis - refers to situations when there is some loss of contact with reality

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rosenhan wanted to see if he could normal people to be admitted into hospitals a psychiatric patients by faking the symptoms by saying that they are hearing a voice thats saying to them, hollow, empty and thud

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the study of cognitive development - our thinking changes as we grow that every child goes though four cognitive stages -sensorimotor -proportional -concrete operational -formal operational

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- sensorimotor - birth-2 - hearing, seeing and motor skills - proportional - 2-7 - use symbols, images and language to represent their world - contrete operational - 7-12 - form basic mental problems that involve physical objects - formal operational - 12+ - thinking logically and methodically about physical abstract problems

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``` child, mother and stranger in a room mother leaves mother comes back stranger leaves mother leaves ```

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a method used bu Ainsworth to study the differences in quality of attachment between an infant and a caregiver

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infancy - 0-2 rapid brain and body growth improvement to voluntary movement (walking) childhood - preschool children hand preference established continued rapid brain development childhood - school aged children physical north slows motor skills improve adolescence - 12-20 groth spurt sexual mutation and brain development early adulthood - 20-40 peak physical functioning middle age - 40-65 physical declines old age 65+ continued physical decline

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impacts psychological functioning puberty menopause development of body

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``` development of our mental abilities memory language thinking problem solving ```

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express emotions | regulate emotions

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forming meaningful relationships

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maturation - a genetically programmed process predetermines behaviours which occur at certain ages learning - a change in our behaviour due to experience

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automatic responses to certain stimuli that babies are born with eg sucking

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used to indicate the average age at which individuals reach certain milestones

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a period in life when certain experiences much happen for normal development to proceed

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any toxic substances that can cause harm to an unborn child

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periods in time which are particularly suited to learning things due to the nature of the growing brain

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Genie had spent much of her life in a dark isolated room, strapped to a child’s potty chair for most of the day and fed only baby food. had the appearance of a six- year-old girl, was painfully thin, was barely able to walk and made hardly any sounds. Genie had never learned to talk and had been deprived of social contact, including language. learnt her first language at the age of 13