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Cognition

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Wide range of internal mental activities

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Perception

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Organization and identification of sensory inputs

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Info processing takes place in ______

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Cerebral cortex

  • Most evolved part of brain
  • 4 lobes
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Frontal lobe

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Motor control, decision making, long-term memory storage

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Parietal lobe

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Somatosensory cortex

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Occipital lobe

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Visual info

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Temporal lobe

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Auditory + olfactory info, emotion and language

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Piaget’s theory of cognitive development

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Reconciled nature and nurture

- Kids group by experimenting w/ environment

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Assimilation (Piaget)

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Results of experimentation are fitted into preexisting schema

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Accommodation (Piaget)

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New info doesn’t fit previous schema => schema are changed

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Sensorimotor (Piaget)

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Birth - 2 years

  • Learn to use language
  • Think literally
  • Object permanence (things continue to exist when out of sight)
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Preoperational (Piaget)

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2 - 7 years

  • Language, think literally
  • Maintain egocentric worldview
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Concrete Operational (Piaget)

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7 - 11 years

  • Logical in concrete thinking
  • Inductive reasoning (specific => general)
  • Conservation
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Formal Operational (Piaget)

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11 years or older

  • Logical in abstract thinking
  • Deductive reasoning (general => specific)
  • Theoretical and philosophical
  • Don’t care about consequences
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Learning theory of language development (AKA behaviorist theory)

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Language is learned through operant conditioning

- Not innate

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Nativist theory of language development

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Language = innate biological mechanisms

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Interactionist theory of language development

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Interplay b/w environment and innate biology

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Broca’s area

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Speech production

- Frontal lobe (left hemisphere)

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Wernicke’s area

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Speech comprehension

- Temporal lobe

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Intelligence

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Ability to understand and reason with complex ideas

- Adapt to environment

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Intelligence Quotient average and SD

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Average = 100; SD = 15

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General intelligence factor

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Every individual has set level of intelligence (two types)

  • Fluid intelligence
  • Crystallized inteligence
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Fluid intelligence

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Ability to think logically w/o need for previously learned info (critical thinking)
- Peaks in young adulthood, then declines

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Crystallized intelligence

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Think logically using previously learned knowledge

- Remains stable through adulthood

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Theory of multiple intelligences

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Variety of intelligence based on different domains

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Sternberg’s triarchic theory

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Processes, experiences, and cultural environment interact to yield person’s intelligence

  • Analytical
  • Creative
  • Practical
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Emotional intelligence (4 components)

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  • Perceiving emotion
  • Using and reasoning w/ emotions
  • Understanding emotions
  • Managing emotions
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Cognitive biases

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Tendencies to think in particular ways

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Functional fixedness

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Tendency to view objects as having only single function

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Belief perseverance

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Hold on to initial beliefs even when rational argument suggests they’re incorrect

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Overconfidence

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Information that should logically undermine confidence is overlooked

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Causation bias

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Tendency to assume cause and affect relationship

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Representativeness heuristic

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Make educated guess about probability of event based on prior knowledge

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Availability heuristic

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Assign high likelihood to event b/c highly “available” to conscious thought

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Fundamental attribution error

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Attribute others’ actions to internal forces (personality) rather than external circumstances

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Self-serving bias

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Attribute own actions to external circumstances

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Three components of emotion

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  • Cognitive
  • Physiological
  • Behavioral
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Universal emotions

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Fear, anger, surprise, happiness, disgust, sadness

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Limbic system

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Connects hypothalamus w/ structures in temporal lobe

- Holds amygdala

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Amygdala

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Responsible for emotional reactions of fear and anger

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Prefrontal cortex

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Conscious regulation of emotional states

- Critical in temperament and decision making

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Hypothalamus

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Regulates autonomic nervous system’s SNS and PNS

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James-Lange theory of emotion

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Emotion is physiologically-based

  • External stimulus => physiological response
  • Sequential
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Cannon-Bard theory of emotion

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Emotional feelings and physiological reactions to stimuli are experienced simultaneously

  • Not sequential
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Schacter-Singer theory of emotion

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Both physiological response and situational cues

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Motivation

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Originates from unsatisfied needs (psychological or physiological)

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Instinct

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Tendency to perform behavior that leads to fulfillment of need

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Drive reduction theory

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People are motivated to take action in order to lessen state of arousal caused by physiological need

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Incentive theory

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Motivated by external rewards

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Cognitive theories of emotion

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People behave based on expectations of what will provide most favorable outcome

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Need-based theories

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People are motivated by desire to fulfill unmeet needs

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Three major components of attitude

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ABC model

  • Affective component (feelings about object, person, event)
  • Behavioral component
  • Cognitive component (belief/knowledge about object of interest)
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Foot-in-the-door phenomenon

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People more likely to agree to large favor after agreeing to smaller one

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Cognitive dissonance

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Conflict b/w internal attitudes and external behaviors

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Cognitive dissonance theory

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People have inherent desire to avoid internal discomfort associated w/ mismatch b/w behaviors and attitudes
- Usually change attitudes (easier)

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Elaboration likelihood model

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Information processing approach to persuasion

  • How person receives argument
  • Peripheral route processing vs. Central route processing
  • Intentional persuasion
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Peripheral route processing

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Individual does not think deeply to evaluate argument

- Minimal knowledge/interest in subject

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Central route processing

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Person thinks deeply and elaborates on argument

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Social-cognitive theory

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Behavior/attitudes change through system of reciprocal causation

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Factors affecting attitude change

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  • Behavior change
  • Characteristics of the message
  • Characteristics of the target
  • Social factors
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Stress

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Strain experienced when organism’s equilibrium is disrupted and it must adapt

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Cognitive appraisals

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Personal interpretations of situations that trigger stress

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Primary appraisal

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Evaluate situation for threat

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Secondary appraisal

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Assess personal ability to cope with threat

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SNS releases ______ and ______

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Epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine (noradrenaline)

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Adrenal glands release ____

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Cortisol

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Incidence of diagnosable psychological disorders

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27%

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Dishabituation

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Return to heightened anxiety after period of habituation

  • Relapse
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Habituation

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Prolonged stimulus results in decrease of anxiety

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Facilitated neurons

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Elevated resting potential closer to threshold => lower stimulus will lead to depolarization

  • Threshold potential of neuron is not changed

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