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Developmental Psych

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Study of age related changes in behaviour and mental processes from conception to death

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Nature

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development governed by maturation (automatic, genetically predetermined signals) and critical periods (time of sensitivity to specific types of learning

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Nurture

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development governed by learning through observation and personal experience

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Stages or Continuity?

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Stage- development results from discrete, qualitative changes
Continuity- development changes at a steady, quantitative rate

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Stability

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Childhood personality measurements closely predict adult personality

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Change

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life changes can affect a person’s development from childhood to adulthood

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Cross-Sectional Research Approach

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different participants of various ages are compared at one point in time to determine age-related differences

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Cohort Effect

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groups of people having a bond due to similar experiences

causes problems in a cross sectional study, because different groups will have different knowledge

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Longitudinal Research Approach

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the same participants are studied at various ages to determine age-related changes

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Conception

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ovum unites with a sperm cell

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Zygote

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new cell that is created by the union of ovum and sperm

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Germinal Period

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Prenatal Stage

first stage, which begins with ovulation, conception, and implantation in the uterus

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Embryonic Period

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embryo- after implantation through the 8th week

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Fetal Period

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8 weeks to birth; increased growth and fine detailing

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Proximodistal Growth

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near to far; internal developing before external

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Cephalocaudal Growth

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head to tail, top to bottom

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrom

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combination of birth defects from maternal alcohol abuse

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Prenatal Brain Development

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begins as early as three weeks after conception

by week 11, there is a defined forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain

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Early Childhood Physical development

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Brain- as infants learn and develop, pruning of neutrons occurs
Motor Development- initially reflexes (Involuntary movements to stimulation), then voluntary control
Sensory and Perceptual- vision is 20/20 at 2 years, hearing develops before birth

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Adolescence

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period of development between childhood and adulthood

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Puberty

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biological changes during adolescence

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Growth Spurt

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rapid increases in height, weight, and skeletal growth during puberty

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Menopause

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cessation of menstruation and decreased estrogen production in middle aged women
there is a social devaluation of agin women

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Male Climacteric

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gradual decline in testosterone and sperm production, weight gain, greying or loss of hair, etc

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Ageism

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prejudice or discrimination based on physical age

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Programmed Theory of Dying

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agings genetically controlled

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Damage Theory of Dying

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accumulated cell and organ damage ultimately causes death

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Schemas

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basic units of intellect; cognitive structures or patterns consisting of a number of organized ideas that grow and differentiate with experience

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Assimilation

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applying existing schemas to new information; new information is incorporated into existing schemas

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Accomodation

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adjusting existing schemas or developing new ones to fit with new information

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Piagets 4 Stages of Development

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Sensorimotor Stage
Pre operational Stage
Concrete Operational Stage
Formal Operational Stage

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Sensorimotor Stage

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Limits: lacks permanence- the understanding that things continue to exist even when not seen or heard
Abilities: uses senses and motor skills to explore and develop cognitively
Language acquisition and object permanence are steps to the next stage

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Pre operational Stage

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Limits: cannot perform operations, intuitive thinking, egocentric thinking, animistic thinking
Abilities: significant language and thinks symbolically

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Concrete Operational Stage

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Limits: cannot think abstractly
Abilities: can performs operations on concrete objects, understands reversibility, less egocentrical

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Formal Operational Stage

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Limits: adolescent egocentrism, personal fable, imaginary audience
Abilities: can think abstractly

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Personal Fable

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thinking no one can understand what you are going through

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Imaginary Audience

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thinking that everyone is watching you, leading to self consiousness

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Invincibility Fable

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thinking that you are the one who will beat the odds

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Criticism of Piaget

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younger children may understand things at a higher level then they can articulate
underestimates genetic and sociocultural influences

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Vygotsky’s Theory of Development

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a continuum of learning from tasks you can do by yourself, to tasks you can only do with help by and education individual
Zone of Proximal Development- tasks in a range that a person is close to acquiring but cannot perform without the help of another

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Attachment

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strong emotional bond with special others that endures over time

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Temperament

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a child’s personality as a baby- easy or fussy

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Attachment Types- Mary Ainsworth Experiment

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Secure
Anxious/ Ambivalent
Anxious/Avoidant
Disorganized/ Disoriented

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Secure Attachment

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seeks the closeness of mother, moderate distress when she leaves, happy when reunited

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Anxious/Ambivalent Attachment

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infant become very upset when mother leaves, shows mixed emotions when she returns

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Anxious/ Avoidant Attachment

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infant does not seek closeness with caregiver, little emotion when caregiver comes or leaves

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Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment

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infant seems confused or apprehensive in the presence of the caregiver

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Baumrind Parenting Styles

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Permissive Neglectful
Permissive Indulgent
Authoritarian
Authoritative

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Permissive Neglectful Parenting

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low control, low warmth
little structure, little interest or emotion, may be actively rejecting
Children have poor social skills and little self control

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Permissive Indulgent Parenting

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Low Control, high warmth
parents set few limits and are very involved and emotional
Children fail to learn respect for others and tend to be impulsive, immature, out of control

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Authoritarian Parentin

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high control, low warmth
parents are rigid and punitive, while being low in emotion and warmth
children tend to be moody, aggressive, and have poor communication skills

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Authoritative Parenting

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High control, high warmth
firm limits while being highly involved and tender
children tend to be self reliant, controlled, high achievers, goal oriented, friendly, and socially competent

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Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development

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Pre conventional Stage: Punishment-Obedience and Instrumental Exchange
Conventional Stage: Good Child Orientation, Law and Order Orientation
Post conventional Level: Social Contract and Universal Ethics

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Preconventional Stage

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Punishment-Obedience- avoidance of punishment and ignorance of people’s intentions
Instrumental Exchange- children become aware of other opinions, morality based on reciprocity

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Conventional Stage

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Good Child- primary moral concern is being nice, gaining approval, judges others by intention
Law and Order- understand that if everyone violated laws, even with good intentions, there would be chaos

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Post Conventional Stage

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Social Contract- societal laws are obeyed because of the social contract; laws can be broken if they fail to maximize social welfare or the will of the majority
Universal Ethics- right determined by universal ethics, which apply regardless of the law

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Criticisms of Kohlberg’s Theory

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moral reasoning v behaviour- situational factors may be a better predictor of moral behaviour than a moral stage
more reflective of an individualistic society
possible gender bias- emphasizes more typically male values

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Erik son’s Psychosocial Stages

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Trust v Mistrust
Autonomy v Shame and Doubt
Initiative v Guilt
Industry v Inferiority
Identity v Role Confusion
Intimacy v Isolation
Generativity v Stagnation
Ego Integrity v Despair
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Sex

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biological maleness or femaleness, including the chromosomal sex

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Gender

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the psychological and sociocultural meanings added to biological maleness and femaleness

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Gender Roles

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the societal expectations for normal and appropriate male and female behaviour

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Gender Differences

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females tend to score higher on verbal skills and males tend to score higher on math and visual spatial tests

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Social-Learning Theory (Gender Role Development)

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rewards and punishments + observation and imitation of models= gender typed behaviour

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Cognitive Developmental Theory (Gender Role Development)

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Social learning and active cognitive processing of gender role information -> building of gender schemas -> gender-typed behaviour

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Androgyny

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expressing both the masculine and feminine traits found in each individual

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Developmental Challenges through Adulthood

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Committed Relationships
Families
Resiliency
Work and Retirement

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Activity Theory of Aging

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successful aging is fostered by a full and active commitment to life

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Disengagement Theory of Aging

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successful aging is characterized by mutual withdrawal between the elderly and society
widely abandoned theory

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Socioemotional Selective Theory of Aging

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a natural decline in social contact occurs as older adults become more selective with their time

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Kugler-Ross Stage Theory of Dying

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Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
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Motivation

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a set of factors that activate, direct, and maintain behaviour, usually toward some goal

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Emotion

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subjective feeling that includes arousal (heart pounding, cognitions (thoughts, values, and expectations), and expressive behaviours (smiles, frowns, running)

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Instinct Theory (Motivation)

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motivation results from innate, biological, instincts

Instincts- behavioural patterns that are unlearned, always expressed in the same way, and universal in a species

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Drive-Reduction Theory (motivation)

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motivation begins with a biological need (deficiency) that elicits a drive toward behaviours that will satisfy the original need and restore homeostasis

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Optimal Arousal Theory (motivation)

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organisms are motivated to achieve and maintain an optimal level of arousal

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Incentive Theory (motivation)

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motivation results from external stimuli that pull the organism in certain directions

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Cognitive Theory (motivation)

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motivation is affected by expectations and attributions, or how we interpret or think about our own or other’s actions
Locus of Control

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Internal Locus of Control

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attributes success to internal factors

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External Locus of Control

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attributes success to external factors

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (Motivation)

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lower needs like hunger and safety must be ratified before advancing to higher needs (such as belonging and self-actualization)

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4 Factors of Sensation Seeking

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Thrill and Adventure Seeking
Experience Seeking
Disinhibition
Susceptibility to Boredom

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Factors of Motivation- Hunger and Eating

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Biological- lowered nutrient levels in stomach are detected, pressure receptors signal satiety, hypothalamus regulates eating and drinking
Environmental Cues- looking at a clock, food, etc.

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Achievement Motivation

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desire to excel, especially in competition with others
Need for Achievement (nAch)
People with a high nAch score tend to 
Prefer moderately difficult tasks
competitive
prefer clear goals with competent feedback
responsible
persistent
more accomplished
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Extrinsic Motivation

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being motivated by outside factors like rewards or punishments

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Controlling Reward

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Reward is given for all right behaviour- child is motivated by the reward

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Approval Reward

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Motivated by the approval of peers or parents

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Intrinsic Motivation

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being motivated internally to do good work

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Informing Reward

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Child acts because of internal factors and is rewarded because of it

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No Strings Treat-

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child acts a certain way and is rewarded for that behaviour by parents or peers

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Biological Components of Emotion

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Brain- cortex, limbic system, amygdala, thamalus

Autonomic Nervous System- sympathetic and parasympathetic

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Cognitive Component of Emotion

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thoughts, values, expectations

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Behavioural Component

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expressions, gestures, body positions

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James-Lange Theory of Emotion

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Stimulus -> Physiological Arousal -> experience emotion

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Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion

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stimulus -> thalamus relays information -> physiological arousal and emotion experienced at the same time

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Schachter and Singer’s Two-Factor Theory

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stimulus -> physiological arousal -> label -> experience the emotion

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Facial-Feedback Hypothesis

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movements of the facial muscles produce and/or intensify our subjective experience of emotion

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Cultural Emotion Similarities

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There are some emotions with are seen in all cultures and others which are not
fear, anger, disgust, surprise, happiness are universal

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Personality

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relatively stable and enduring pattern of thoughts, feelings, and actions

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Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Theory- Freud’s 4 Key Concepts

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Levels of consciousness
Personality Structure
Defence Mechanisms
Psychosexual stages of Development

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Id

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primitive, instinctive part of the personality, that works on the pleasure principle
seeks immediate gratification

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Ego

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rational, decision making part of the personality that operates according to the reality principle
delays gratification of the id’s impulses until appropriate

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Superego

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a set of ethical rules for behaviour developed from parental and societal standards for morality, operating on the morality principle
guilt if rules are violated

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Defense Mechanisms

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the ego’s protective method of reducing anxiety by distorting reality and self deception
Examples: repression, denial, rationalization, intellectualization, regression

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Psychosexual stages of development

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Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital
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Adler’s Individual Psychology

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we are motivate by our goals in life rather than by unconscious forces
Inferiority complex- feelings of inferiority develop from early childhood experiences of helplessness and incompetence

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Jung’s Analytical Psychology

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Two forms of the unconscious:
Personal Unconscious- from individual experiences
Collective Unconsious- a reservoir of inherited, universal experiences
Archetypes- images and patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours residing in the collective unconscious

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Horney’s Blended Psychology

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personality is shaped by the child’s relationship to the parents
Basic anxiety- feelings of helplessness and insecurity that adults experience because as children they felt alone and isolated in a hostile environment
first feminist criticism of Freud’s sexism

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Traits

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relatively stable and consistent characteristics that can be used to describe someone

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Early Trait Theorists

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Allport, Sattel, and Eysenck

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Factor Analysis

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statistical procedure for determining the most basic units or factors in a large array of data
used by Cattle and Eysenck

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Five Factor Model

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Openness
Conscientiousness 
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
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Humanistic Theories

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personality and behaviour depend on how we perceive and interpret the world
people are naturally good
Self Actualization- inborn drive to develop all of one’s talents and capabilities

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Rogers’ Theory

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Self Concept- all the information and beliefs individuals have about their own nature, qualities and behaviour
When ones self concept and experience are congruent, a person is well adjusted, and maladjusted if not
Unconditional Positive Regard- love and acceptance with no strings attached

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Bandura’s Approach (Social Cognitive)

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combines cognition and observation
Self Efficacy- the learned belief that one is capable of producing desired results, such as mastering new skills and achieving personal goals
Reciprocal Determinism- cognitions, behaviours, and the environment interact to produce personality

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Rotter’s Social Cognitive Theory

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Personality and behaviour is determined by expectations and reinforcement value of outcomes
Internal Locus of Control- own efforts exert primary control
External Locus of Control- environment and external factors have primary control

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Biological Contributions to Personality

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Brain
Neurochemistry- neurotransmitter levels have been correlated with personality traits
Genetics

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Social Psychology

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a scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by others

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Attributions

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explanations for behaviours or events

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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attributing people’s behaviour to dispositional causes rather than situational factors

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Saliency Bias

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focusing on the most noticeable (salient) factors when explaining the causes of behaviour

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Self-Serving Bias

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taking credit for our successes and externalizing our failures; motivated by a desire to maintain positive self esteem and a good public image

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Actor- Observer Bias

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we tend to explain our own behaviour in terms of situational factors and others behaviour in term of disposition

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Attitudes

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learned predisposition to respond to objects, people, and events in a particular way

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Three Elements of Attitude

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Affective- emotions
Cognitive- thoughts
Behavioural- actions

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Cognitive Dissonance

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a feeling of discomfort caused by a discrepancy between and attitude and a behaviour

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Dealing with Cognitive Dissonance

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Change perceived importance of one of the conflicting cognitions
Modify one of the conflicting cognitions
Add additional cognitions
Deny that conflicting cognitions are related

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Conformity

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changing behaviour because of real or perceived group pressure

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Normative social influence

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conforming to group pressure out of a need for approval and acceptance

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Norm

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cultural rule of behaviour prescribing what is acceptable in a given situation

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Informational Social influence

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conforming because of a need for information and direction

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Reference Groups

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people we conform to because we like and admire them and want to be life them

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Obediance

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following direct commands, usually from an authority figure

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Four Factors to Obedience (Milgram)

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Legitimacy and closeness of the authority figure
Remoteness of the victim
Assignment of responsibility
Modelling or imitating others

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Deindividuation

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reduced self consciousness, inhibition, personal responsibility that sometimes occurs in a group, particularly when the members feel anonymous

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Group Polarization

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groups movements toward either riskier or more conservative behaviour, depending on the members’ initial dominant tendencies

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Risky-Shift Phenomenon

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after discussing an issue, groups support riskier decisions than decisions they made as individuals before the discussion

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Groupthink

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faulty decision making that occurs when a highly cohesive group strives for agreement and avoids inconsistent information

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Prejudice

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a learned, generally negative, attitude toward specific people solely because of their group membership
Three Components
Thoughts- stereotypes
Feelings/Emotions
Behavioural tendencies (possible discrimination)

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Implicit Bias

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hidden, automatic attitude that may serve as a guide to behaviours independent of a person’s awareness or control

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Stereotype

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a set of beliefs about the characteristic of people in a group that is generalized to all group members; the cognitive component of prejudice

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Discrimination

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negative behaviours directed at members of a group

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In-group Favouritism

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viewing members of the in-group more positively than members of an outgroup

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outgroup homonogeneity effect

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judging members of an outgrip as more alike and less diverse than members of the ingroup

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Aggression

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any behaviour intended to harm someone

biological and psychosocial factors

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Frustration- Aggression Hypothesis

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blocking of a desired goal (frustration) creates anger that may lead to aggression

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Altruism

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actions designed to help others with no obvious benefit to the helper

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Why do humans act altruistically?

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Evolutionary- favours the survival of ones genes
Egoistic- motivated by anticipated gain
Empathy- Altruism Hypothesis- due to empathy for someone in need

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Diffusion of Responsibility

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dilution of personal responsibility for acting by spreading it among all other group members

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