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Stereotype threat

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Awareness of negative stereotypes can lead to impaired performance

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Intelligence quotient (iq)

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Mental age / chronological age X 100

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Meritocracy

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Idea that wealth, power, etc. Should solely depend on how hard you work

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Incremental theory

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Belief that a persons intellegance can be improved with experience and effort

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Entity theory

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Belief that intelligence is a stable trait that is nearly impossible to improve (false)

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Weschler adults intelligence scale (WAIS)

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Full scale IQ test
General ability index (GAI)
Verbal comprehension and perceptual reasoning tasks
Cognitive proficiency index (CPI)
Working memory capacity and processing speed

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Fluid intelligence

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The ease by which we learn new things & find solutions to unfirmiliar problems

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Crystallized intelligence

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Ability to use past experience & knowledge to complete a task

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ROBERT sternberg

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Triarch theory of intelligence:
•book smarts (analytic)
• street smarts (practical)
• creativity

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Howard Gardner

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Challenged notion of intelligence being a general ability

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Social development

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Learning to conform to social norms, learned naturally if brought up in supportive environment

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Goodness of fit

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Refers to match between parenting style and child temperment

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Developmental psychology

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Study of physical and psychological changes that occur in different stages of life

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Cross sectional design

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Measures grouped of people at same time but different ages

Cohort effect: people of different ages developed in different time periods

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Longitudinal design

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Measures same group of people at different times

Very time consuming & risk of people dropping out of study (attrition)

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Developmental stages

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Changes proceed through patterns of stability followed by periods of more rapid transmission called “sensitive periods”

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17
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Conception has what 2 parts?

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Sperm

Ovum

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Germination stage:

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Zygote
Inner cluster of cells forming embryo
Outer ring of cells forming placenta

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Embryonic state

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2-8 weeks

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Fetal stage

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8 weeks- birth

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Maternal malnourishment

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Pregnant women doesn’t eat enough, increased risk of giving birth to lower weight babies more prone to illness & deficits in mental function

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Teratogens

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Substances that negatively affect process of development in uterine

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Thalidomide

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Caused severe birth defects including blindness, deafness, and limb deformities

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Preterm infants

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50% survival rate of babies born at 25 weeks & may have deformities

25
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Synaptogenesis

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Creation of neural connections

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Synaptic pruning

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Neural pathways you don’t use go away

27
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Moro reflex

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Baby acts startled when it’s head isn’t supported

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Rooting reflex

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Baby starts sucking

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Assimilation

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Acquiring new knowledge and relating it to something we already knew

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Acomidation

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Learning by adjusting old knowledge in the face of new info

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Piaget’s stages of cognitive development

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The sensory stage (0-2)
Preoperational stage (2-7)
Concrete operational stage (7-11)
Formal operational stage (11-adult)

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Sensory stage

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All of child’s awareness is tied to their sensory experience

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Object permence

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An awareness that an object still exists when you can’t see it

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Preoperational stage (2-7)

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Language acquisition, being able to think in symbolic ways such as numbers, increased imagination

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Concrete operational stage (7-11)

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Start to think logically, can mentally perform with numbers, learn to classify objects

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Formal operational stage (11-adult)

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Increased reasoning & ability to think of abstract things

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Attachment

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The emotional connection you develop or fail to develop with care giver

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Stranger anxiety

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Young children’s discomfort with strangers

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Secure attachment pattern

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Child is MILDLY distressed when mother leaves it alone with stranger.
Child keeps distance from stranger
When parent returns kid because happy again

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Insecure attachment

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Child clings tightly to parent before they leave
Child very upset when alone with stranger
When parent returns they rush for comfort but push parent away

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Avoidant attachment

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Child not close with care giver
Doesn’t care when alone with stranger
Ignores care giver upon return

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Disorganized attachment

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Can’t decide to seek comfort or avoid care giver

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Egocentrism

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Lacking capacity to understand other people have other perspectives then them

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Theory of mind

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Capacity to understand others have their own thoughts and opinions

45
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Instrumental helping

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By age 1 children will help others to complete a task

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Empathetic helping

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By age 2 children will act to help someone in distress feel better

47
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2 systems underlying pro social behaviour

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  1. Attachment behavioural system: system for achieving personal comfort from others
  2. Caregiver behavioural system: comforts others - can only be active if attachment behavioural system is satisfied

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